Don't cut the plastic! Melt it with a hot soldering iron. Outside, of course

wow

I have the same thing for mine (octagonal plastic aquarium), but I never thought of putting the whole shebang sans-lid into the vivarium.

What an idea.

I know if you feed Hornworms tomatoes they become toxic for Chams, I'm not sure if its the tomato factor or the fact that the tomato is being injested by the hornworms thats the problem.

Just for safety sake, or until you get a more educated answer i would stay away from gut loading with tomatoes and stick to the green stuff.

I used to use a glass aquarium but i felt that there wasn't enough air circulation so I now use the same container chambabysitter1 is using but i cut a circle out on each side of the container including a HUGE cutout of the lid and placed a screen (from in the inside of the container) into the holes. From there i used a computer fan
(like this one)
and glued it to one of the screen holes to create air circulation and ventilation since (from what i've read don't quote me) when crickets die they release a certain smell that encourages death to other crickets.

regardless, this new enclosure i've been using has been keeping my crickets alive longer and with less deaths.

What fancy containers. I use a rubbermaid 35 gal. grey tub. I put the crickets in with 2 egg crates from the box of crickets. (I buy mine by the 1000). I put water crystals in the cover from a coffee can and just dump some cricket crack in a corner. Don't put more then about 1/8th cup. They eat this up in a couple days. I use an empty paper towel roll to get the crickets out. If you keep it laying in there, there will always be some crickets in the tube. I pick it up and let any doo doo in the tube fall out then shake the crickets into a cup where I lightly sprinkle with calcium. The crickets do not jump out of this tub and using the tube makes it easy to put them into the cup without having them scatter. I may have a picture of my tube somewhere but I wanted to respond.

Check it out on a past post.

http://www.chameleonforums.com/cheap...in-info-19326/

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