Mine love both crickets and superworms. I'm breeding supers so always have a variety of sizes, even for hatchlings. If crickets weren't so stinky and jumpy I would breed them too. It's not so bad to buy 1000 a month tho. A lot of people feed mealworms and have for decades. As with chams...
Good luck with him, I sure hope he recovers. It really p*sses me off when people wait until it's a critical to find someone to take their animal they no longer wish to properly care for. I just want to smack them! More than once! But I'm glad there are caring people out there willing to take...
He is indeed a lucky cham to have such a caring owner! What are the two 4' strip lights? Seems it could be really bright and stressful on the eyes. I don't have enough experience to know but haven't seen mention of anyone having those.
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One of the most readily available plants at any garden center is the umbrella plant (shefflera) and veileds love them. The UVB will take care of its lighting requirements.
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I like newspaper. At first, I used an aquaruim with a screen top and paper towel in the bottom. When he struck at crickets, the paper towel stuck to his tongue and often the cricket got away. He looked frustrated at that. So I got a carpet. It looked nice but poop stuck to it. Made me...
We order 1000 smalls to arrive at least 3 days before needed and start feeding them a buffet right away. They grow fast enough and over the course of 3+ weeks and there's maybe 30 dead. In addition to the egg crates they're shipped in we add paper tubes. I don't like to feed them anything...
I am new to Chameleon keeping so would be not interested in trying unknown feeders. What they eat in the wild is what keeps them healthy. Of course a stray bug may come into their range and be eaten, but it's not their regular diet. Harvester ants contain high levels of formic acid, which is...