Recent content by animallover27

I'm so glad to hear that other people have crickets everywhere - my cats just watch them go by now . . . but I've tried all sorts of things, which help somewhat, but a few always escape . . . now I don't feel like such an incompetent cricket person!

I'm glad to see the temperature requirements too - I'd found all sorts of different ones online and I'm going out of town on business for a few days week after next so I'd like to have the temperature perfected before then . . .

Great - thanks! I think they are sub-adults, but basically the reptile show she got them for me at had 1/2 inch crickets and fruit flies, so I ordered some 1/4 inch crickets from Big Apple and they will be here tomorrow. I just got the chams on Sunday. Thanks for the supplement schedule...

Hi! A friend of mine got me three pygmy leaf chameleons for my birthday and they are eating like little horses but I was supplementing my veiled and my panther today and realized I had no idea how to dust fruit flies or what to gut load them with. I am going to get some 1/8 inch crickets but...

I am finally going to try to switch my 10 month old panther and 4 month old veiled to roaches - I just hate the cricket stink with all my being (and I clean the little bastards every three or four days) Is there anything I should know about switching them? Is there a way to make the new bugs...

Preferably more the Fort Worth/Arlington side . . . I'm not in need of one now but I have terribly bad luck with exotic animal vets (I have pet rats too, which are exotics for some reason) so I thought I'd ask BEFORE I'm panicing because I have a sick cham . . . I know about the herp vet...

My panther does the same thing - and if I walk by to do something else in the room he gives me the evil eye because I woke him up . . .

what is that on his head?

Thank you for posting this - understanding my panther's anatomy helps me care for him better I think ... though the eye pics were hard to look at to me ... I have a doctorate in psychology so seeing the design of the brain helped me to understand what is going on in his head .... though there...

I was wondering the same thing - anatomy has always fascinated me . . . That poor guy looked young - I guess he could be just small from not being well taken care of - but he is about the size of my 7 month old . . .

I'd love to keep them in the garage! I know waterbugs do great in Texas so it makes sense dubias would like it too . . .

Chupacabra doesn't give feeders much of a chance - but I'll be sure not to give him extra roaches in his cage and keep my eye on them when I feed him . . . I knew butterworms were high fat - but not the others - thanks for letting me know! :)

Ok - that makes sense about the locusts - the ones we have here look totally different than what I've seen online . . . I'm going to have to look into the roaches . . . I'm not squeamish so the fact that they are roaches doesn't worry me at all . . . I think that my petsmart has superworms...

Do roaches smell? Because that is what I hate about the crickets - I clean them once a week and they still have that sweet rotten smell

How do you guys go about introducing new foods to your chameleons? Chupacabra was raised on crickets but he ADORES hornworms, so I've ordered him some silk worms, butter worms, and wax worms (because the fewer crickets I can keep in the house the happier I am) . . . The silk worms I think...