WhoopeeTheCham
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Do you guys leave dead crickets in your containers for living ones to devour as part of a gut load or to keep them alive longer? I know weird question. I just don't want to harm my cham.
Dead crickets?
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cruz.m
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Yeah the dead ones will make the smell worse. Is there another reason to take them out as soon as they die? I figured it wasn’t good for the cham either something to do with the crickets maybe mal nutrition, have stuff on them, parasites, if they get on the live ones they’re contaminated I’m not sure?
ERKleRose
Chameleon Enthusiast
They also have fumes (I think it’s ammonia) that can kill the other crickets by suffocating them. They could also carry diseases than can be passed to the others if they eat them, along with dead ones being a bad gutload, among other stuff.
cruz.m
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Yup figured. I hate crickets this will probably be one of the lasts times I buy them they just gross me out and stink so bad
cruz.m
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Yeah I usually get these from lllreptile
Crickets die so fast..... its rather annoying. 
WhoopeeTheCham
Member
Awesome thank you guys. Personally I think horned worms smell atrocious. Blah....
ERKleRose
Chameleon Enthusiast
They shouldn’t, unless you‘re talking about dying of old ageCrickets die so fast..... its rather annoying.
