Meet Halud.

Spicy, opinionated, quite vocal, and with the depth perception of a one-eyed raptor.

Last Friday, Halud struck at and missed his roach. The roach fell and cowered. While I attempted to retrieve his meal, Halud decided to eat a nearby piece of sphagnum moss instead.

While I tried to wrestle it away from him twice, both times it broke off into smaller chunks. Before I could make a third attempt at retrieval he’d apparently had enough of me trying to steal his weird, flavorless bug, and so greedily swallowed it.

It’s now six days later, and he has yet to pass it. So here we are at the exotics vet, about to spend $300 on diagnostics while he bites an even weirder bug (see: towel) in his transport container.

Shame him.