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Gone bad cricket

Started By Darcy , May 24 2021 2:55 AM

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#1 Offline Darcy - Posted May 24 2021 - 2:55 AM

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Hey so I'm feeding my Rhytidoponera metalica queen a cricket two days ago and it started to go pink and smell really bad.
I've immediately moved her out of the test tube into a clean one and thrown the old one out but some of the larvae and the queen herself got pink stuff on them. Will they be ok? Won't kill them?

#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 24 2021 - 3:24 AM

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Dead crickets always smell really bad. The pink might be bacteria.

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#3 Offline Darcy - Posted May 24 2021 - 3:32 AM

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Reckon they'll be alright? They only traces of it were on one leg of the queen and small spot on the larvae. Hopefully the bacterial doesn't spread into the other larvae or the queen died from it 😬