at least its in a screen cage, but yeah thats terrible. all the pet stores aroudn here keep them in glass. I don't even buy anything live from pet stores anymore. I just go to shows, or order stuff online. Granted, I'm way paranoid about buying a poor little animal and having it shipped...
they also hold stomach content for up to 72 hours so they are great for gut loading. and yeah my chameleon isn't too interested in them either, but he likes the smaller ones more than the bigger ones.
i feel yah man, mine has been a picky SOB lately too. Dubias are my staple, but he stopped eating them regularly, but he was still eating non nutritious super worms, then he stopped eating them, so I bought him crickets which I hate, and he ate like 3, and for the last week all he has eaten is...
bummer, sorry to hear that. Was she bred or just normal unfertilized eggs? What species was she?
atleast if she was with a male you will get some babies if you're lucky to carry on the legacy.
I need help thinking outside the box on how to weigh my aggressive male veiled chameleon. I don't want to do anything to stress him that I don't have to, so I thought you guys would have a good idea or two on how to weight a chameleon.
I have a small digital scale that only goes up to 500...
wow i've never saw that species before. It does look like it's in sad shape :-(
Best of luck nursing it back to health, it's a shame how wild caught specimens are treated, plus I don't like the whole wild caught idea anyway. It's bad for the ecosystem and wild population of animals. I...
if your want to sanitize large pieces of wood and stuff from outside, u can let it soak in a bath tub with some bleach in the water, it will kill any fungus etc. or parasites/eggs that may have been laid in the wood, rinse it, and make sure it doesn't smell like bleach anymore and let it dry.
well I moved my hornworms to a larger enclosure, removed the regular food from the green horn worms, left the two cups of teal horn worm foods, and have been giving them bug burger also.
I have also started a second enclosure, with live tomato plants, so that any horn worms that gestate into...