Only put Walking Sticks in the chameleons enclosure when feeding the Walking Sticks out. That is going to calm your never about chameleons getting bit (or other mishaps) and save your plants.
Putting Walking Sticks in an enclosure only when feeding a chameleon is a precaution. Similar to taking the big hopping legs off Schistocerca grasshoppers when feeding to a chameleon and only feeding Mantis to a chameleon while supervised. I would not want one of my chameleons to get a giant Walking Stick foot/leg to the eye.
That is an amazingly fantastical imagination you have. But, best to be safe, right!
After all the years you have never had a feeder insect chameleon eye issue? I have had chameleon eye issues from feeders once or twice. Removing the spikey legs is second nature to me now especially from the genus Schistocerca, Mantis, and Walking Sticks. This is a different topic, however large formidable legs could cause ingestion problems too.
Jeremy, There needs to be some middle ground between not acknowledging the dangers of feeder insects and having a chameleon and stick insects co-habitation in a large enclosure - that is obviously large enough to grow enough of a bramble to support multiple walking sticks. You have been here way too long to not be able to work with a sense of nuance. Me sharing a fun thing I did is not "beginner policy" and has never shown up in my advice to anyone. But, by chance, someone whose name I recognize - which means they have been around long enough to have perspective and understand where I am coming from -asks the exact question that I experimented with. Now, if you are truly concerned that this will lead someone astray, ask what species of walking stick....ask the cage set-up...where there separate perching branches from the bamble providing different areas to exist?..and, while we are at it - isn't bramble throny? Is that a good idea? So many more important things to ask before you get to the dangers of a walking stick poking his eye out in his sleep.
