Can I do this?

[barnaby]

Hi!

Can I dust cricket's food (let's say carrots) with calcium? Won't that get in its organisms and to the cham?

thanks.

 

[ChameleonsTree]

You can add all the calcium to your feeder food you like ...you still need to dust your crickets.

 

[barnaby]

You can add all the calcium to your feeder food you like ...you still need to dust your crickets.

My problem is, most of the feeder crics are not imediately eaten and roam around the enclosure. In a day or so, the survivors are already clear of calcium dust.
Maybe if I could put the calcium in a piece of carrot in the enclosure, when they eat it at night, they would keep the calcium longer in their bodies...

 

[bg77]

Put fewer crickets in to try to eliminate extra crickets in cage at night. I to have some left from time to time, and get cleaned from the mistings, but I don't worry about it. I don't think every cricket that is eaten has to have supplements on it.

 

[ChameleonsTree]

If they eat half of them with dust on them its ok

 

[barnaby]

Put fewer crickets in to try to eliminate extra crickets in cage at night. I to have some left from time to time, and get cleaned from the mistings, but I don't worry about it. I don't think every cricket that is eaten has to have supplements on it.

The thing is that it's a pygmy enclosure, so it's smaller than most enclosures and with all the plants, and substrat and vines (and my complete lack of talent)), I find myself poking around the cage, affraid of disturbing the chams, and without getting many crickets. So, I basically leave them there with some veggies and carrot, and they eventually get eaten.