Recent content by lily2521

I'll definitely come your way for a cham when ready - been extremely happy with the carpet!

Good answer. Pretty sure my husband would have something to say about that, he already thinks I'm too obsessed with the one we have! I will say though, thinking ahead, I love my carpet cham, but I would probably do a panther next time.

This actually brings up another question I have. I have a carpet cham, he's fairly small - full grown he's only about 8", so the full grown breeder dubia I will never be able to feed off. What on earth do I do with the full grown dubia I'm using to breed? I know they can live a couple of years.

Thanks so much for this suggestion! I found someone about 30 minutes from my house that breeds and sells starter sets!

I feed my crickets Repashy Bug Burger

I live in the Midwest, and that was another question I have, if I order them from a online retailer, will they survive the cold during shipment?

I'm so sick of crickets I could scream. If I find one more loose in my house, I'm going to lose it myself! Okay...rant over... Are dubia sufficient if I switch from crickets as a staple feeder? Can dubia be used as an everyday staple feeder? I do have a local reptile shop that...

Dubias are new feeders for me, I was able to find a local reptile shop that sells them. But...how to store them is my question? If I put them in a standard cricket keeper (I'm only going to keep about a dozen on hand at any given time for now) can they get out? Can they climb the walls of a...

I thought of this too, that the cham might just eat them. I've seen him watching them closely, but not strike at them. Although I've only seen 5-6 of them, and I've managed to kill the ones I see. I have good drainage, but I suppose with moist soil around all the time (mister goes off 4x a day...

I use Bug Burger for my feeders, and I change it every 48 hours per the instructions. The weird thing Is I have only seen the flies in the cham's cage, haven't seen any near the feeders or near the feeder food at all. I'm just dumbfounded by this, no clue where they could be coming from. My...

The only thing we have laying out is bananas, and I don't see flies anywhere near them. I don't breed, I always buy new feeders weekly, and wash my cricket bin in between. No windows or doors open, we live in the Midwest, it's freezing here :) and no other pets

I've got a 4 month old male carpet cham. To date he's only eaten crickets, and we just started feeding dubia. Over the past 2 days I've noticed some small flies (I'm guessing they're fruit flies, or something similar) flying around the cage. I've killed about 5-6 now. I never feed flies so...

Yeah I'm pretty sure at this point my husband thinks I'm nuts I obsess over the cham so much. He's enjoying him too though, got him to eat a cricket from his hand last night, and I've caught him snapping pictures of Lizzie, so I know there's love there :rolleyes:

We've had our 3 month old male carpet for about 10 days now. We've tried to let him be as much as possible. He's never shown extreme shyness from the day we got him, he has eaten, drank, and even poo'd in front of us, no problem. He doesn't run and hide when we approach the cage, stays out in...

I don't want to set up a huge free range or anything, and I have a carpet cham so he isn't going to get too large to start with. But, we want him to be as comfortable around us as possible, and comfortable with being outside of his cage. Does anyone have pics/examples of just setting up a...