Amazing dubias

[spottea]

So, I ordered some dubis for Piko, as she likes them so much and nobody sells them around here. I did buy some at the last reptile show, but they're too big, and she almost choked on the last one she found wandering around!
I want to start my own colony, so I ordered 2 adult males, and bunch of little ones to last until the next show.
Ordered from DubiDeli, which is in northern California, so same coast, no problem right?
Order was sent quickly, on the 4th, scanned in Sacramento, disappeared for 2 days or so, scanned again in MO, then back to Tennesee, finally appearing on my doorstep yesterday! Poor things. Yet, despite all that and the 90+ temps, they seem fine, not a single fatality. The carrot looked a bit gross however!
Beautifully wrapped in a little cotton bag, and then sealed in a box with a coolpack and space blanket.
Amazing critters! Piko will enjoy these after I've fed them up a bit.

 

[Ctg]

My chameleon loves dubias, and they're easy for me to just put on a branch and watch her hunt them down. Luckily georgia crickets.com warehouse is 15 mins from my house so I can pick them up whenever I want. I need to get around to breeding them, but it's too easy and cheap for me to just get them from there for now. I just wish my chinese water dragon liked them as much as my chameleon does.

 

[ridgebax1]

I have a HUGE colony and my cham still does not seem interested in them. He ate one and left the rest. I did not feed him anything else for a day and a half. So today I caved and gave him his phoenix worms. He literally put his head in the dish and scooped them up four or five at a time! He looked like one of those whales scooping up sardines! He downed about 35 of them in just a couple minutes. I saw someone's suggestion of gluing a stick vertically in a ceramic dish to let them climb up and down the stick. I am going to give that a try and if it does not work I am going to get rid of the Dubias and switch to Turkistans. They are more active than the dubias, which is why I don't think Omar eats them. They just huddle together in a corner of his bowl and don't move.

 

[spottea]

I try to place them on the roof or wall of her mesh cage. It amuses me to watch her watch them,and then go all 'stalker'! They can move quite fast when they want to. The Phoenix worms don't really interest her however,,as they aren't very active,,so they usually just die in the bowl. I'm not buying them anymore!

 

[Ctg]

Yeah I wish I could get my Cham to eat phoenix worms, that's for sure.

 

[AndrewBrian]

I have a dubia colony too... chams are really finnicky eaters... mine dont even really like crickets... dubia they eat but they go crazy over grasshoppers