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You can find the actual study results online, only people with cockroach allergies AND asthma had increased attacks in the inner city in the US, similar studies in other countries showed NO correlation. If they pest control companies explained the actual findings rather than made up hype I...

You can find info, vendors, etc. on the Allpet Roaches Forum The university had an infestation of Periplaneta americana which is a pest species. Less than 1% of the 4,000 plus species are pests. I'm sure the university also had mice problems, does that mean chameleons would get loose and...

An older, common lepidopteran feeder (waxworm) has been shown to be lacking in nutrition --just little bags of fat-- so what factual info do you have on silkworm nutrition? Has anyone ever reared a chameleon on 100% -or close- silkworm diet?

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Most of the photos in this gallery show captive bred roaches in their cage setups (some you can see the overall setup better than others): http://www.bidabug.org/Forum/index.php?showtopic=907

The majority of roaches are active at night and sleep during the day. A very small amount of ambient lighting is enough to proivide them a day - night cylcle. However, complete 24 hour darkness would be similar to providing a chameleon 24 hours of light.

I have a cultivar of the normal house cricket that's extremely easy to rear (adults are hypermelanistic) if you'd like to rear crickets. Most people have no trouble keeping these as they are much hardier and don't require high temps.

I don't think you'll find anyone in the US to ship to Canada but there are some Canadian roach keepers you can get them from. I would bet you'll be successful if you post a want ad on here:Allpet Roaches forum Be sure to mention you are located in Canada and are looking for roaches from Canada.

I was going to vote for a decent sized veiled chameleon as the very best starter but you're right about all the arguing. I'm changing my vote to a hissing cockroach.

Mine usually only turn near black when I put them outside in the sun (in a black screen cage). You'd think they'd turn black inside to absorb more from the pitiful 60W incandescent bulb.

You are right they should be a better choice but many chameleons refuse to eat them (more than once anyway). I've not seen any chameleon refuse lobsters or green banana nymphs.

Here's a much nicer yellow form without all the brown. The common name is Porcelain Cockroach because normal coloration is an off-white porcelain color. However, lurida means yellow.

Short form: Some roaches like Macropanesthia rhinoceros are extremely difficult to keep and can run more than your chameleon, up to $300 each. Lobster roaches or green banana roaches are your best bet. Feeding method is a little different than crickets. Energetic, non climbing nymphs...

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You could also try running a fish net through grassy vegetation to catch a variety of small insects. Even if you live up north you ought be be able to catch a ton of food for another month. Even my 3" tall lawn has a ton of small crickets this time of year.

You could cover the soil with mesh screen but the crickets would probably try digging into the plant crowns.

Every cricket you've ever bought started out as an egg laid in soil.

Why would you clean the soil? I've had cricket cultures going for ten years in the same aquariums without 'cleaning' the soil. You don't want to give soil to the chameleons to eat but you shouldn't buy some odd substance that sticks to crickets (normal potting soil). One corner or side is kept...

Put them in a 20 long with and inch of soil a bunch of egg carton and a screen lid with 60-watt bulb on one side.

He looks like a captive-bred, good size male and probably the very best option to start on chameleons. The chameleons we have in pet shops around here are either baby veileds or wild caught senegals (and the odd wild caught jacksons or other species) which don't often do that great. They...