Puffy eyes

[Bro Bott]

Aww…breaks my heart when they are sick. Poor baby girl.
Nose crusts may be snalt, which is nothing to worry about.

The eye crusts are either drainage or shedding - hard for me to tell which, but it looks more like shedding.
For the bsfl, they don’t need to be dusted with calcium. One of the reason why we dust with calcium at all, is because just about all insect feeders are higher in phosphorus than calcium, which kind of cancels the calcium out. So we add calcium to them. Bsfl are higher in calcium than phosphorus so they don’t need to be dusted at all. As for their movement, if you lightly mist them with water, they will move like crazy. They are more sluggish when dry.

Good to know thanks. I know I feel bad for Marge too. Also I messed up and bought the wrong thing not silk worms so I bought real worms and idk when they come but yea

 

[ehdee6]

I'm certainly not a vet, but just IMO, I think the eye crust may be excess skin from when it was swollen. Sort of like when you get a blister and then the swelling goes down.

I'd recommend the thrive feeding station I mentioned. The only way crickets get out is if they're bigger than 3/4"... Which is too big for my Chams anyway, they get freaked out by the bigger crickets and just leave them alone.

I also feed my BSFL vegetable scraps, so they're usually super active. I keep them in a tote bin with a bag of organic dirt, and then buy 1000 small, 1000 medium, and 500 large and they last for 6 months. I think the flies breed in there, because I still find suuuuper small ones after 6 months too. And if the Chams don't go for the larvae, just leave the BSFL alone without feeding, and they'll go for the flies!

This one is just nearing 5 months, and there's still probably over 500 larvae.

 

[Bro Bott]

I'm certainly not a vet, but just IMO, I think the eye crust may be excess skin from when it was swollen. Sort of like when you get a blister and then the swelling goes down.

I'd recommend the thrive feeding station I mentioned. The only way crickets get out is if they're bigger than 3/4"... Which is too big for my Chams anyway, they get freaked out by the bigger crickets and just leave them alone.

I also feed my BSFL vegetable scraps, so they're usually super active. I keep them in a tote bin with a bag of organic dirt, and then buy 1000 small, 1000 medium, and 500 large and they last for 6 months. I think the flies breed in there, because I still find suuuuper small ones after 6 months too. And if the Chams don't go for the larvae, just leave the BSFL alone without feeding, and they'll go for the flies!

This one is just nearing 5 months, and there's still probably over 500 larvae.
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Wow! Thank you! Next time I stop by petco I’ll look at the thrive feeder