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- Feeding - Crickets, black soldier flies & larva, silkworms, hornworms. He won’t eat any kind of roach. I think roaches are an acquired taste for some chams. I gut load my feeders with repashy bug burger. I love Bug Burger, but I wonder if it might be somehow contributing to the problem...

She will only eat silk worms. She has gone right off crickets and locusts. Something this is ok or should I switch up the worms to a different one. morio Worms she won’t eat rather. Think she is going for smaller objects over bigger food sources.

Hi you don't need a water source, there will be enough moisture content in fresh food . You also do not need substrate, ( unless you want to keep them in a bioactive setup) providing a substrate only complicates maters , and provides s breeding ground for bacteria. All that is needed is a...

Thank you! I've heard that this species is more tolerant of being kept together although I still prefer to keep my adults separate. Agreed that the babies can tolerate it but at some point there may be an unnecessary stress imposed keeping them together. I'll continue to give updates on how...

I like banded crickets as well. Cricket life cycle is 90 days. It’s. True heat does make them grow faster. But you need heat at the egg to small size or they will die during the winter. Thats why I have a separate nursery where I put the container with the soil and eggs for them to hatch and get...

Chameleon Info: Your Chameleon - Panther, male, 6 mos old. He has been here for almost two weeks. Handling - i’ve had him out twice. I only take him out if he wants to come out. At first, he wouldn’t come near me, but now he trusts me. I hand fed him some water from the leaf this evening...

Day 2 Grabbed some small crickets, not quite pinhead but probably 2 week or so. My local reptile shop carries good feeders and I purchase there. Nice to not have to deal with shipping! The female ate 8-9 crickets while I was gone for a few hours. This was positive to see. Still drinking and...

I live in central FL but I don’t keep crickets for the exact reasons you have listed lol. Are you open to switching to discoid roaches?

ah.. so earlier maturity affects their pattern earlier? I have been following all the details here so closely, and really trying to keep her basking temp at 79. I did cut back on her crickets from 6 little ones a day to about 4 a day, but these are a little bigger. She doesn't have any problems...

thank you grannyK. hmmmm its been very cold here at nite (well to us ) 51 ish... during day gets up into the 70s. humidity,i am guessing in the 60 to 70 range. i found Howard about 3 months ago walking down the driveway in pretty bad shape. mostly black skinny as a bread knife. so much...

As the time is getting closer for me to be getting my veiled baby ... I'm somehow worried that I'll screw up...what if this happens or that happens....these are a few things I need the answer to so I can quit worry so much. - I live up north and it can get pretty cold here in the winter...

Well, one beardie is brumating. 1,000 are just for breeding. The cricket explosion I had from 500 cricket breeders has somehow become just a few hundred. No idea what happened or even where they went, unless they are cannibalizing each other. I keep them clean and fed so just trying to figure it...

My chameleon Elphaba is not doing well. She is a 5y 9m old female veiled chameleon. she had a fall a week ago and seemed to be getting better for about 4 days but over the last 2 days she has really slowed down. Right after the fall I moved her to a smaller screen enclosure and she was still...

Hello and welcome. She is so tiny! How old is she? Three months? I have raised two from babies so I will make a few suggestions that may seem controversial. First, the size of feeders should be no longer then the space between her eyes, not casque. She should be on small crickets right now and...

I’m hoping for the best! Keep us updated!

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...

I buy 50 crickets weekly and keep them in a clean black bucket under my grasshopper enclosures with no lid. The bucket is new so the sides are smooth. They can’t climb or jump out. And it’s really dark under there. I just toss them in the bucket and give them food. They have no cardboard...

As you've only had him for less than a week, I'd give it time. It takes them a bit to acclimate. When I first brought Spooble, my veiled chameleon, home, he ate pretty readily on the first two days. He then became shy about eating for a few days afterwards. I wondered if maybe those first few...

The bugs seem to “bounce off her tongue. Cleo is a veiled chameleon. She is about 6-8 months. I have had her for about a month and a half. I handle her often. Basically everyday. She will crawl on me when I am feeding her. I will take her out of her enclosure on “field trips” to let her climb...