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...(BSFL), they're GREAT! Full of calcium and good nutrients, and my guy LOVES them. If you let them pupate into flies, they're really good enrichment for your cham too. Offer tons of food for your guy and let him eat as much as he wants. I haven't gone through the whole thread - are you cup...

I'll try it give him a few less bugs and see how he does with them. For the bugs I give the gels (i was told they were good by someone from the pet shop) but I dont know if they are. I'll be sure to feed them some other things that are on the list. The Supplement without d3 Is calcium and the...

She said no to rodents 😅 thanks for your opinion! Ill chat to her about that when she gets home!

Dubiaroaches.com sells little sifters for a couple bucks. It saves me so much time when separating out the bugs from the substrate.

Im just wondering, Ive been feeding my cham the larvae and the flys, is the larvae still as healthy as the fly?? Is the larvae unhealthy?

Sure you can... They will just dig down and munch stuff until they pupate. Just make sure you have a good layer of leaf litter. Veileds are little brats if they see movement they are going to go try to eat it. Kinda like a toddler as in everything with them goes in the mouth. lol

I got a cool little sifter when I ordered from Smyton one time… but really it’s just a colander you could probably get at the dollar store ☺️

Ah ok so I’ll toss em back into the container until they hatch. How long does that process normally take from once they turn black and hard?

So my mom doesn’t really plan on handling the pet much, and that we don’t have over 1000 to spend on a bearded dragon enclosure. Do you know any good resources on leopard geckos and other geckos like that?

Sorry to come back to you only now. The enclosure is 45x45x65cm with bio active ground in, this enclosure was the biggest i could find as i live in south Africa. The top part is sealed it is custom made so i can easily fix that, my heater is infrared heating bulb gaught that as when i did my...

I already posted pictures of the supplements, it is calcium without d3 at every feeding and reptivite calcium with d3 and vitamins twice a month. By the look of the bulb it’s a 1 inch wide I’ll take it out again once her lights are out they go out in 30 minutes. I do feed hornworms as treats...

I have questions about all of that. What is the food? Is it a product like the orange cubes that will keep the crickets alive but not healthy/nutritious? What is the calcium product and how are the crickets getting it? yes, they look almost like yellow round cheeto puffs 😂 the calcium and...

Yeah that is certainly the dark side of the hobby. I actually work at a mini zoo aquarium, so see first hand the care that goes into at least BIAZA registered captive animals in everything from diet to enrichment thought through and delivered.

Yes flying prey items are great enrichment for them. I also get the same aggressive feeding response with wild prey I catch, like grasshoppers and cicadas.

Great thank you so much. I was able to place an order with them

By free ranging I mean the breeder is putting the crickets on his plant and letting him eat them as they climb up. But they have him in a smaller enclosure. I don't want to do that because I want to make sure he's eating everything. I want to be able to know how many of each bug he's eating...

So the infared heat bulb you want to replace with a regular incandescent white bulb. The red bulb is bad for their eyes. I personally would get dome fixture for this and remove the big piece you have on top so you have air circulating out the top completely. Were you advised to use a UVB bulb...

...works, what I do know is my chameleon as I’m sure all do, loves to have flying insects or winged insects and I would love to give him that enrichment and variety. What are some ways you guys keep them to have successful pupation? Just looking for some methods that have worked for any of my...

The problem is container size. I always move them right away from the small shipping cup to the tallest deli cup, filled with coconut coir. It can be completely dry, just put in some ends of squash/any kind of pepper, which they will eat to obtain moisture. You can put about 50 at a time in...

If you want to add enrichment add flying feeders or a new free range. I agree with Klyde, most of what we would consider enrichment is anthropomorphism.