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Neither species can fly - male red runners can sort of glide if dropped from a high place but not that well; females don't even have wings. And neither can climb. I consider red runners to be a moderate escape risk from chameleon enclosures though, they are small and wiggly. They make great...

I have used drylok on wood, it works alright. I am not sure it really becomes "waterproof", more like water resistant (though I have seen one YT video of a wood aquarium purportedly sealed with only drylok). Tinting it is annoying, it takes a lot of very concentrated pigments to do it right. If...

I am sorry for your loss. She was lucky to have you.

For what it is worth - it is very difficult to rehab a chameleon that is so far gone. I have attended a veterinary CE talk on the topic that was literally titled "Chameleon medicine: I can't stand another one dying on my watch." The takeaway form that talk was basically that education about...

I think it may be somewhat region dependent; there's a supplier in my area called "delicious dubias" that sells to the local pet shops so I don't have much trouble getting them; not sure if they ship though. You could buy the eggs and raise them yourself potentially, that might be the best way...

Yes, I am aware

And I should clarify I'm not coming out against using bee pollen, my position is just that there's really no evidence that it is needed or even beneficial. Now that doesn't mean it's not beneficial - just that it hasn't been studied - but even if it is beneficial the appropriate dose to use is...

Devil's advocate position: To the best of my knowledge there are no controlled studies that have actually looked at improved health or lifespan of chameleons or other reptiles fed bee pollen when compared to those that have not been (if there is anything on that other than natural history...

^This is the main reason for the potential of this species as a really good feeder IMO. If everything was legal we could just use the nymphs of the Caribbean katydids themselves as feeders. Or stick with Schistocerca. But getting a new species set up in culture has limited value to the...

We need the no-diapause variety for them to have much utility as a feeder though. That apparently means Florida, before they get killed off by the Caribbean alien katydids

Yeah, I culled my dubia colony once I got the discoids going. I'm going to use those as my roaches in the future. With all the species you've kept do you have a favorite non-climbing species in terms of palatability to chameleons?

Haha well I'll keep that in mind

Have you caught all your katydids by hand or have you found any successful trapping method? The black light I use is LED, I may try a mercury vapor bulb instead. I hear these things all summer up in the trees in my yard and I probably see them once every 3 years.

I agree with the sentiments expressed above and I'd like to add a couple thoughts: 1) My chameleon hates dubias. Always has. He has been more willing to take other kinds of roaches though, and would often take dubia when hand fed. I've hand fed him preferred prey items (crickets, grasshoppers...

I hear them every summer in Sac but I haven't actually seen one for a few years now. I basically only see them incidentally at lights at night. I've tried attracting katydids with a blacklight trap in both Sacramento and Davis without much success. If there's a tried and true collection method...