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Goodbye Mealworms

I knew I had a problem the second I opened my bedroom door – my room stank of swamp. It smelled like I had a bog body under my bed. Uck.

The nast came from my toad tank. Apparently my toads prefer live food. So if a cricket or meal worm dies before the toads get to it, then it just rots in the tank. Delcious. I know. I was so thrilled to learn this firsthand…

I wasn’t prepared to deal with rotting bugs, so I went to the fresh part of my room1 and finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point.

Finishing a non-textbook felt good. I think it’s a 1L rarity. Woop! I was now ready to reclaim my room’s freshness.

I pumped the tank, did a water change, lit coconut incense and about a dozen scented candles. I also vacuumed and disinfected all surfaces. My room currently has more chemical smells than Lady Gaga’s hair salon.

I did have one problem:

The 14-year-old sales rep at Petsmart was mistaken – my toads do not eat mealworms. At all. Half of the uneaten-grossness in the tank was worms. Fail.

But I still had so many left! What to do?

After thinking about it for a few minutes I realized: “Wait, meal worms are …WORMS! And I don’t care about worms!”

Chuck, Flush, Holla! Problem solved!2

Now that I have a newly cleaned and freshened room, I can finally concentrate on those fee committee reports


1my bed, which is by the diffusers
2 I didn’t actually flush the worms… chucked them outside. It’s warm enough…and the bats that live in our attic are looking famished…

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