How Many Feeders...
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ScalesTailsandClaws
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3: Dubia, Mealworms and Hornworms. 
Thanks camimom!
Thanks camimom!
camimom
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3: Dubia, Mealworms and Hornworms.
haha very welcome! and btw, i made that thread a blog, so you can go back and read it whenever.
sandrachameleon
Chameleon Enthusiast
- M Hissing roaches
- Dubia roaches
- Turk roaches (not for much longer though!)
- indian walking sticks
- terrestrial isopods
- mealworms
- superworms
- fruit flies
I have crickets, but only keep the young from pin-head to one week. I feed all the little ones off to my frogs and buy new adults a couple times a month.
brandon1
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Wow, some of y'all breed a lot of feeders lol.
I currently only breed:
Discoid Roaches
Hornworms
Silkworms
but I'll soon be working with:
American Bird Grasshoppers
Obscure Bird Grasshoppers
Eastern Hercules Beetles
Superworms
and possibly:
Florida Giant Katydids
What am I going to do with myself
I currently only breed:
Discoid Roaches
Hornworms
Silkworms
but I'll soon be working with:
American Bird Grasshoppers
Obscure Bird Grasshoppers
Eastern Hercules Beetles
Superworms
and possibly:
Florida Giant Katydids
What am I going to do with myself
camimom
New Member
Wow, some of y'all breed a lot of feeders lol.
I currently only breed:
Discoid Roaches
Hornworms
Silkworms
but I'll soon be working with:
American Bird Grasshoppers
Obscure Bird Grasshoppers
Eastern Hercules Beetles
Superworms
and possibly:
Florida Giant Katydids
What am I going to do with myself
sell some to us!
i would love do get some grasshoppers though.
brandon1
Established Member
Lol. I actually may be trading some of the Bird Grasshoppers for some FGK eggs, if I can catch plenty enough for myself and have a good bit more, with another member on the forum. But if anyone would like either of the grasshopper species I'd be happy to just send you some, if I can get enough to start colonies of my own. So long as you pay for the shipping though
. Or if you have some things that you'd be willing to swap with me that I could use that would be nice too . Just PM me if you really want to.
Miss Machine
New Member
Dubia roaches
Pachnoda marginata peregrina (African rose beetles)..i feed the larvae and the adult beetles
Pachnoda marginata peregrina (African rose beetles)..i feed the larvae and the adult beetles
brandon1
Established Member
That's cool. Haven't heard of Pachnoda marginata peregrina (African rose beetles) before...
Do your chams show great interest in them or are they just like, "Yeah, whatever, zap, crunch, gulp, next please"?
Miss Machine
New Member
The beetles and larvae. Well only my oustalet's eat the beetle and larvae, the rest prefers the larvae. The beetles i keep in a small plastic container, which i put on top of a light canopy of my pygmy tank. I feed them all kinds of fruit and beetle jelly cups. The cups contains fructose, vitamins and even seaweed extract, so it's full of all the good stuff
I really wish that I could get my hands on a regular source of green katydids or some native hoppers. They only sell the African locusts here. I also would love to feed my chams hornworms, but they don't sell them. Or stick-insects or mantids.. unfortunately they're far to expensive to feed to my chameleons
brandon1
Established Member
To Miss Machine-
Those grubs look a lot like the ones from Eastern Hercules Beetles. Check them out; they're one of the feeders I plan on working with(for the grubs that is).
I would be wary about the beetle jelly cups containing seaweed extract. A few days ago I was reading a thread that explained a specific cham species that was dying, I think from eating fruit flies that had access to some sort of seaweed or seaweed extract. I think it was a thread by Seeco, and Motherlode Chameleon chimed in by exclaiming that he lost some babies of the same species with similar occurrences with the fruit flies and seaweed. I'm not completely sure what all that was about, but just something you may wish to look into.
I wish you could feed your chams katydids,hoppers, and hornworms too. If you lived closer I would send some to you...
Those grubs look a lot like the ones from Eastern Hercules Beetles. Check them out; they're one of the feeders I plan on working with(for the grubs that is).
I would be wary about the beetle jelly cups containing seaweed extract. A few days ago I was reading a thread that explained a specific cham species that was dying, I think from eating fruit flies that had access to some sort of seaweed or seaweed extract. I think it was a thread by Seeco, and Motherlode Chameleon chimed in by exclaiming that he lost some babies of the same species with similar occurrences with the fruit flies and seaweed.
I'm not completely sure what all that was about, but just something you may wish to look into.I wish you could feed your chams katydids,hoppers, and hornworms too
. If you lived closer I would send some to you...
Miss Machine
New Member
Thanks Brandon ;-), my family and I want to come over to FL. Our friend lives there!! 2007 was the last year we visited .
But then again, there are enough feeders for my chams but I really want to try the hornworms and katydids..
I sure will search the forum looking for the thread about the seaweed! It kinda freaked me out
.But then again, there are enough feeders for my chams but I really want to try the hornworms and katydids..
I sure will search the forum looking for the thread about the seaweed! It kinda freaked me out
brandon1
Established Member
Sorry, I just checked the thread and got it mixed up with another. Their chams were dying after eating fruit flies, but nothing was said about seaweed. There was, however, a thread on here about some sort of flies buzzing over seaweed? And the person talked about how the flies are harmful to chams. Not sure if he meant because it was those particular flies or if it had something to do with the seaweed, or from it being by the ocean maybe and he was talking about the salts causing a problem or something else; I don't rememberThanks Brandon ;-), my family and I want to come over to FL. Our friend lives there!! 2007 was the last year we visited
But then again, there are enough feeders for my chams but I really want to try the hornworms and katydids..
I sure will search the forum looking for the thread about the seaweed! It kinda freaked me out
. And I've looked for it too, but I just can't find it so I don't know what more to say about that
brandon1
Established Member
OK, I have now thought of another to give a try: dragonflies!
There's a particular large species that's green and blue that I'm goint to try to breed, but I'll catch all kinds because I don't know if the green and blue ones are like males and the females are a different color or vice versa, or if both sexes are the same.
I think I have an addiction to breeding feeders for my cham as well
EDIT-just found out they are called Green Darner Dragonflies(Anax junius) and the males and females both have the same blue and green color layout. I've also found that there's a similar colored species: Blue Emperor Dragonfly(Anax imperator) that I will probably try out as well.
There's a particular large species that's green and blue that I'm goint to try to breed, but I'll catch all kinds because I don't know if the green and blue ones are like males and the females are a different color or vice versa, or if both sexes are the same.
I think I have an addiction to breeding feeders for my cham as well
EDIT-just found out they are called Green Darner Dragonflies(Anax junius) and the males and females both have the same blue and green color layout. I've also found that there's a similar colored species: Blue Emperor Dragonfly(Anax imperator) that I will probably try out as well.
Captive Creations
Member
i breed dubia
crix
isopods
fruitflies
supers
meals
soon silks aswell
crix
isopods
fruitflies
supers
meals
soon silks aswell
