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[kohda]

Never thought I'd have something to post here, but it figures it came from PetSmart.

Last week, I bought crickets, and as I was tossing them in my lizard's cage, I noticed one had another, dead cricket stuck to him. I tried to shake them loose, but no go. On closer inspection, it turns out there was only one cricket, with a giant growth coming out

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[scuse]

This reminds me way too much of My Big Fat Greek Wedding...the growth that turned out to be a twin that was never born? Ew.

[falnfenix]

"i had the bub...the bubu...the bubopsy"

[beyondcrazy4you]

"okay, okay, okay, you're family now"

*yucky story time*

[falnfenix]

spanakopita?

[rrhexis]

Can you get some 10% neutral buffered formalin? Are you near a vet school or med school? Ask their pathology department. After he's fixed, have someone embed him in paraffin for histopath sectioning/H&E staining and we can see what that thing is!

[mofette]

conjoined fetus hanging off the side of it's leg cricket!

[ceteranna]

Parasitic twin, looks like?

[wilwarinandamar]

That would be my guess.

[zzziltoid]

I've seen some mutant crickets in my day but never like that!

If you have a young growing bearded dragon, might I suggest ordering crickets online. You can get 1,000 for $16.00, which is WAY cheaper than the petstores. You can buy in smaller quantities, but when my beardie was growing he'd eat at least 60 a day and 1,000 lasted me about two weeks.

[shadsdf]

Nah, that's normal, juvies need more protein than greens in their diets. Everyone I know who's owned them goes through the CF thousand boxes in two weeks, three at max.