I hate how Josh’s frogs and Petco treat their bugs
(Warning for mention of dead inverts)
I’ve never pity bought animals from a big chain store before, but that changed today. I HATE how petco treats their bugs, isopods and dubias especially. They don’t feed them, just leave them in cups to die.
I’m sick of trying to buy dubias for my leopard gecko and just sorting through cups and cups of dedicated dead bugs. Reguardless of their purpose, they deserve the basic respect of being kept alive. Im starting a dubia colony after this, I’m so done
I saw these cubaris isopods two weeks ago when I last went for feeder bugs, and again today when I was there for the same reason. 3/8 were dead on the substrate, and another is almost dead. The worker at the counter gave me a fairly steep discount on them because so many were obviously dead (to be clear, I don’t blame the employees, only the store and their policies). When I put them in their temporary enclosure they didn’t even run for cover, just started eating immediately while I was still shuffling things around, so I’m guessing they weren’t getting much out of their coco fiber substrate.
Why are these animals left like this? I’m sure they would’ve died and been discarded in another week if I hadn’t bought them. Why doesn’t Petco treat them like their jumping spiders, who at least receive some modicum of care?
It just makes me so mad. Even feeder insects deserve a life free of suffering before they’re fed. Why is anyone allowed to keep live animals without feeding them?
On a less depressing note, I’d welcome any advise on keeping Cubaris isopods. I’ve kept porcellio and armidilidium in the past, but u understand these guys can be a bit trickier