Oh! And idk why they didn't recommend this but those cultures can be saved by adding new excelsior or even toilet paper rolls or note cards to the cups. Any dry surface for the larvae to pupate on will salvage productivity. It's not the eggs that didn't make it, they can't turn into flies...
I'm not going to lie I think they're one of the best companies out there for herp needs.
I have a biweekly subscription for 2000 crickets at a time and get all my other feeders and supplements there. Customer service has always been awesome and so have the products.
FWIW, the fruit fly issue...
Looking to purchase captive born offspring from the imported farm bred T j jacksonii that have been imported this past year to the US. Message me please.
As simple and vague as this answer is, I feel like it covers pretty much all the reasons we are playing with one arm behind our back with the nutritional needs of many reptiles not just chameleons.
I guess I could have worded better. I meant to imply that people see one persons success and then try to replicate it in a half a$$ manner.
It seems to happen here a lot that people look for permission to do one thing because they saw something else. Keeping 2 parsons in a whole room quickly...
I really don't think there was anything out of line in his comment. If there's one thing I hate about this site it's the trend of people taking one person's success or appearance of success as permission to try and replicate it. Yes you stated you divided the room, but there are also pictures...
@jannb I'm heartbroken and sickened to my stomach by what happened down there, especially in the lower keys. The upper keys are my home away from home. I hope for the best for you and your pets and home. We were spared in Ft Lauderdale.
FWIW I've been looking into milkweed bugs lately both as a feeder and just as a project species. You might like them because you enjoy culturing insects for more than just their feeder application. They're brightly colored and interesting looking.
In my. Ever ending search for new feeders, I've come across captive cultured milkweed bugs. Supposedly they're quite prolific and not hard to culture.
Does anyone here actually use them? I really want to know about personal experience with them. Did the orange color produce a good response...
That was my point about feeding the baby ones off not the adults. Very few day geckos can be kept and bred in small places. And at the cheapest you'd be looking in the $20-30 each to start.