I'm so glad to hear that other people have crickets everywhere - my cats just watch them go by now . . . but I've tried all sorts of things, which help somewhat, but a few always escape . . . now I don't feel like such an incompetent cricket person!
I'm glad to see the temperature requirements too - I'd found all sorts of different ones online and I'm going out of town on business for a few days week after next so I'd like to have the temperature perfected before then . . .
Great - thanks! I think they are sub-adults, but basically the reptile show she got them for me at had 1/2 inch crickets and fruit flies, so I ordered some 1/4 inch crickets from Big Apple and they will be here tomorrow. I just got the chams on Sunday. Thanks for the supplement schedule...
Hi! A friend of mine got me three pygmy leaf chameleons for my birthday and they are eating like little horses but I was supplementing my veiled and my panther today and realized I had no idea how to dust fruit flies or what to gut load them with. I am going to get some 1/8 inch crickets but...
I am finally going to try to switch my 10 month old panther and 4 month old veiled to roaches - I just hate the cricket stink with all my being (and I clean the little bastards every three or four days)
Is there anything I should know about switching them? Is there a way to make the new bugs...
Preferably more the Fort Worth/Arlington side . . .
I'm not in need of one now but I have terribly bad luck with exotic animal vets (I have pet rats too, which are exotics for some reason) so I thought I'd ask BEFORE I'm panicing because I have a sick cham . . .
I know about the herp vet...
Thank you for posting this - understanding my panther's anatomy helps me care for him better I think ... though the eye pics were hard to look at to me ...
I have a doctorate in psychology so seeing the design of the brain helped me to understand what is going on in his head .... though there...
I was wondering the same thing - anatomy has always fascinated me . . .
That poor guy looked young - I guess he could be just small from not being well taken care of - but he is about the size of my 7 month old . . .
Chupacabra doesn't give feeders much of a chance - but I'll be sure not to give him extra roaches in his cage and keep my eye on them when I feed him . . .
I knew butterworms were high fat - but not the others - thanks for letting me know! :)
Ok - that makes sense about the locusts - the ones we have here look totally different than what I've seen online . . .
I'm going to have to look into the roaches . . . I'm not squeamish so the fact that they are roaches doesn't worry me at all . . .
I think that my petsmart has superworms...
How do you guys go about introducing new foods to your chameleons?
Chupacabra was raised on crickets but he ADORES hornworms, so I've ordered him some silk worms, butter worms, and wax worms (because the fewer crickets I can keep in the house the happier I am) . . .
The silk worms I think...
I have a cat show on July 14th (so I'll be out of town for a weekend) so I thought after that - that way I can get to know the little guy after he arrives - though now that I think about it, I guess it might be ok to get him the week before, get him settled, and then let my pet sitter watch him...
I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the best forum, but as you guys all predicted I've become addicted to the chameleon - even though my panther Chupacabra spends most of his time glaring at me . . . actually, we made a breakthrough in chameleon/human interaction with hand feeding hornworms...
Burt
Ernie
Chupacabra (you'd have to see the looks this baby panther gives me - his name just presented itself when he marched out of his shipping container)
I've got a four month old male panther and he's still fine in his small reptibreeze (which is 18x18x24 I think) but I was wondering at what size I should get him a bigger cage . . .
If possible I'd like to skip right to a large reptibreeze to save money but if it would hurt him at all I'll...