As far as fast breeders
If fast breeding is a priority then the Blatta lateralis are excellent. They drop egg cases in two weeks sometimes less and the egg cases can hatch in two weeks or less and have 20 or even more nymphs.
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Blaptica dubia........5,000 lot
Green banana roaches.......150 lot
Giant green banana roaches..50 lot
Blaberus colosseus..........50 lot
Termites.................5,000 lot
Termites are rotten wood feeders and will not eat the wood in house...
they arent hybrids between craniifer and giganteus
actually they are something else. people who were importing from Europe trying to get cheap craniifer ended up getting them. When they saw they did not look like craniifer they started selling them as light phase death heads. Giganteus are...
Sometimes they like to watch
Let the non dubia eaters see the other chameleons eat them. We have had some success with animals eating things they wouldnt eat just because they saw other things eat them.
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Eating dirt
Is he purposely eating dirt or gets some on his tongue while going after food? Sometimes when reptiles purposely eat dirt it is due to mineral deficincies in their diet.
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legal sticks
There are permits that allow also for the keeping of non native sticks for exibition purposes. However one must be approved and have facilities that pass inspection to do so and not just institiutions such as zoos have these permits. Also one will not get busted for keeping non...
They can also be bred! Then you have a clean safe source! They do require more humidity and cooler temperatures than regular crickets however.
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Feral, adventive
Are they living and breeding there? Whoever told you they werent native did they know the species? If they are adventive, meaning not native but established and breeding in the wild there you will not run afoul of the law keeping them there. As an example we can ship green...
Clarification
on the first page of this thread people misread my response. I did not mean beans. The originator of this thread was confused and tried to feed it beans!:D nor did I mean bean weevils aka bean beetles. I meant bean or pea APHIDS. These are very fast breeding and eat only bean...
Nutritionally inferior
Frozen foods are nutritionally inferior to fresh foods in both nutrients and taste. Freezing also causes cellular damage. Live foods are freshest and healthiest. To say that fresh fruits lose nutrients over time in the refrigerator is true because picked fruit is dead...
If they are native to your area then you can keep them with impunity as they are not illegal to keep. However native ones from seasonal areas do not produce year round and are not as thick as tropical species for the most part nor as productive. However they can still be good.
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Nightcrawlers
Nightcrawlers and snails are an excellent source of protein and calcium. native stick insects, meaning if they are native to your area, can be kept and bred as feeders. Isopods if they will eat them as well as other earthworms among other things.
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Flying things and green things
They like flying things and green things. Phasmids and orthopterans make up a large portion of the wild diet. Orthopterans are grasshoppers and katydids. From what I have seen on Ebay it is European sellers, mainly from the United Kingdom who are offering stick...
Spines are fine
I have not heard of anyone having problems with the spines on the Australian stick insects. Chameleons like tree monitors in nature are used to dealing with spiny stuff. Its not like feeding them Eurycantha calcarata. Eurycantha calcarata males have a half inch spine on each...
Australian prickly sticks
Australian prickly sticks are good they get very beefy and adult females can pop out 2-6 eggs a day when they reach maturity. For higher fertility rates use bisexual stock. You will have a higher hatch rate and they hatch in about 5 months as opposed to 9 months or...
We prefer insects from tropical areas as they do not go through a diapause and can be bred year round. Locusts are grasshoppers but are differentiated by their breeding strategies. They go through a swarming phase and thats when they are most productive.
Grasshoppers from Southern Florida...
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Blaptica dubia........5,000 lot
Green banana roaches.......150 lot
Giant green banana roaches..50 lot
Blaberus colosseus..........50 lot
Termites.................5,000 lot
Termites are rotten wood feeders and will not eat the wood in house...
Blaptica dubia 5000 lot............425.00 Shipped USPS Express
Green banana roaches Panchlora nivea 75 or 150 lots
Giant panchlora aka Giant Green banana roaches. Females get over twice the size and 2-3 times the mass of adult Panchlora nivea. Males of both species about the same size...
The sound of screaming meat
It is only the males that chirp. They are the ones without the ovipositor. Use camel aka cave crickets and or cockroaches to avoid noise. Also if a lone male is isolated they tend to chirp more looking for company.
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