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Precisely! For a while I was buying from a local mom & pop store and was paying $20 for 500 domestic crickets. It was overpriced, but no shipping costs and support local businesses and all, so I didn’t mind. But…consistently there was about 40-50% die off so it was equivalent to paying $20 for...

Meh. Not really digging the final verdicts. It boils down to "dont bring up a problem if you dont present a solution". "dont feed your cham commercial insects, one that leads to terrible pain, suffering, and guaranteed death." Welp guess ill start breeding Madagascar bees or something...

Great info here. Thank you! That money tree sure did get tall fast! I'm putting in a baby and the original pathos that didn't fair too well originally from when I first started. Any who, some recent pics included...

Yeah, I haven’t seen him open his mouth at all after that first day… tommorrow I’ll try using the syringe again for him to maybe open his mouth ( maybe put water in there? ) and try to out the cricket or mealworm into his mouth. He’s been acting not normal and he has just been hiding in his...

Your Chameleon - Veiled Chameleon, Female, 7-8 months (estimated) Handling - Rarely handle. Once a month maybe Feeding - 4-5 large crickets dusted in repti calcium once a day, everyday. 3 reptivite dusted crickets twice a month. I give the crickets the cricket food they sell at the store...

Please show me where J leave a. rito osm without solution. Show me anyone else who brought to the community more solutions improving chameleon lives than me. If you have questions, ask. But please read at least what I write and do not say I do not provide solutions…

I always like to recommend ghanns for crickets, at least from my experiences back when I was buying them. I know they’re a bit pricey, but out of all the places I’ve ordered from(many), their banded crickets arrived hands down the cleanest and healthiest. I would have the same batch for over a...

Anyone use bioactive with crickets? Saw 2 videos on YouTube about using soil, leaf litter, and isopods with crickets and it helping to keep clean and also help reduce die off. I have 1000 crickets inbound and need to build their container.

I must be the cricket killer! They always die, ugh! I feed crickets and Dubia as well - to keep a varied diet. Dubias never die!

my poor baby died last night.

I keep mine similarly to @amf45005 but without adding heat & I’ve cut out areas of the sides of the bin & screened them for optimal ventilation. When I buy 500 domestic crickets, there is always a massive die off no matter what. When I order 1000 banded crickets, almost no deaths. The domestic...

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I tried it 2-3 years ago. The (banded) crickets were their usual, but they ate all of my isopods.

Your Chameleon - 1 year old male veiled chameleon named Ollie and he’s been in my care since January of 2025 Handling - I handle my chameleon everyday for at least a few minutes before work. Am changing their (have two but filling out a separate one for her) schedules to be able to interact with...

Get that substrate out of there right away. Any chunks that are wood or “solid” are not going to pass through his digestive system….sorry if I sound harsh…but if he gets impacted there’s not much that can be done to fix it as a rule…so your chameleon will almost certainly die a painful death...

The coughing sound has only happened two or three times in the time that I have had him, and the yawning also is not very often at all, just something I noticed. The mulch and soil is what came in this reptile soil packet that the pet store recommended to me, and when his feeders are on the...

I’ve heard that a lot of the pre-made cricket food prohibits them from being able to shed - causing them to die quicker. So I’ve been avoiding trying to use this (other than when we are away for a few days.) I use plain cricket water (I purchased from a cricket vendor at repticon) along with...

This is 2 of them so far. I’m assuming he died few days ago so maybe he’s dry or something because I feed them regularly every 2 days with crickets

I don’t offer any additional hydration, but I do feed fresh produce and greens that I will occasionally give a spritz of water to. I have several bug bins and depending on how many crickets there are, dictates which I use to move them to for thorough cleaning. Every time I move the domestic...

Here ya go! All set up and waiting for the hawkmoths to emerge. Here they are. There’s a few more behind them too. Wax moths in their big breeding jar. Unfortunately the moths emerge at all different times, so I’m not quite sure how their egg making is going. Mealworms starting to pupate...