I Don't Know How They Do It!!!!!

[GooglezNvincent]

I don't know how people can have locust or grasshoppers as staple feeders, i found a nice juicy one that almost jumped on me today and it wasn't orange or reddish or yellow so it was safe to feed to my cham and he nailed it and it was soooooo gross! Crunchy! and its wings were flared out and i got goosebumps and nearly gagged! I don't know why but grasshoppers make my skin crawl. I can handle spiders, snake, tarantulas, just about n e thing BUT grasshoppers! lol just thought id share!

 

[NewOwner]

LOL

Crickets are pretty nasty.

I like watching my cham eat worms, she bites it, and then rolls it towards her teeth and chops so it squirts

What do you feed your cham?

 

[Vince]

LOL

Crickets are pretty nasty.

I like watching my cham eat worms, she bites it, and then rolls it towards her teeth and chops so it squirts

What do you feed your cham?

Yeah the worms squirting is pretty cool i must say. Chams can really chew things up pretty well.

 

[desultadox]

Yeah I think crickets and roaches are infinitely more gross than grasshoppers.

 

[NewOwner]

Yeah the worms squirting is pretty cool i must say. Chams can really chew things up pretty well.

Haha.. Yup.

I really enjoy watching the Cruel death of the worms, and crickets i dont see a problem with, theyre calm but jump when they get out of the enclosure , ive got a critter keeper thing with tubes, you pull a tube out, and there hiding inside, you tap it, and a few fall into a bag, which i dust in, and straight to the feeding cup... No big deal

 

[leid]

I love grasshoppers. Which is why I couldn't ever feed them to my cham.

Crickets are stinky. But I hate roaches more than any bug on the planet so I'm not changing my staple feeders.

 

[Docility]

I love grasshoppers. Which is why I couldn't ever feed them to my cham.

Crickets are stinky. But I hate roaches more than any bug on the planet so I'm not changing my staple feeders.

i always wanted to try stick bugs/ mantis, but the more realistic thing would be the maducca worms (horn worms) , but they take forever to grow!

 

[NewOwner]

LOL

Crickets do stink, but if ya clean there lil cage thing once a day or so, it doesnt stink as bad, Plus remove all there old food, i learned that the hard way

Ive never heard of grasshoppersa as food

Neat anyways.

Im curious as to how 'Indian walking stick insects' Die. ive got some in the mail... do they have guts that squirt out of there long skinny body? Or do they just squirm and squeal..



-Levi

 

[GooglezNvincent]

LOL

Crickets are pretty nasty.

I like watching my cham eat worms, she bites it, and then rolls it towards her teeth and chops so it squirts

What do you feed your cham?

Mealworms, i used to give, they are crunchy too, but crickets and silkies and Hornworms when i want to treat them! I have a year old male veiled, Kermit, he LOVES hornworms! he bit one in half and then walked up to the back half that was on the vine and licked the blue blood for a little and then finished it off, it was freakin hilarious!

 

[jojackson]

my veiled loves stick insects.

 

[NewOwner]

my veiled loves stick insects.

Whats there Death like?

Short and unhumerous

Or Gross and guts everywhere?

-Levi

 

[leid]

I can't imagine stick insects are inexpensive. We don't have any here in Kansas. Well, I've seen ONE, and it was more like a leaf insect, but Fred appears to like crix just fine. They're just so smelly, even when I remove the stuff from their keeper.

levi must like horror/gore movies

 

[jojackson]

They dont do much, not much inside (except in the abdomen), just takes a bit longer, like spaghetti

These are wild ones from my garden leid. (no insecticides)

If crix are smelly you dont have enough ventilation or/and feeding too much wet food (balance)
should be mostly dry.

 

[joeandsoph]

Haha I hate crickets. Nasty little buggers. We feed our beardie hoppers / locusts and sometimes he doesn't eat them properly (basically 'cos he's a greedy pig) and their legs hang out the side of his mouth haha. And some of it's guts drip down his chin it's so funny.

 

[hallenhe]

My sister-in-law thinks crickets are lucky, and calls Thaxter a "bad karma chameleon" for eating them. I've never considered them remotely gross (well, except when I'm being squirted with their innards when somebody munches on his breakfast). I was surprised when I first saw a roach - with all the fuss I'd heard about them I expected something terrible, and it was just a beetle. I find worms and worm-like larvae somewhat disgusting; Thaxter finds them delicious.

 

[codiwatkins]

Mr. Ester still ahsnt eaten anything but crickets......I just got him and i let the crickets roam free...then i put the superworms in the feeder cup. He gets real close to the cup and peers in and then goes back to his basking spot. I dont think his previous owner fed him anything but crickets...so i dont think he knows what to think about them yet!!
p.s. Do the superworms bite or anything? i know its a dumb question but they just freak me out i want to try and hand feed Ester but i cant hold the giant superworms long enough! as soon as they start moving i freak out and drop them

 

[hallenhe]

Superworms are really wiggly; I haven't been bitten by them like I have by hornworms sometimes (and that's a little surprising, but not terrible). There are urban myths about superworms eating their way out through your animal, but the general consensus seems to be that they're unsubstantiated - certainly any chameleon I've known big enough to eat a super has been good at crunching his food, and they do love them. I hand-fed a superworm this morning, and just had to keep moving my hands so it would fall onto one as it crawled off the other. I find them peculiar to watch, as they move both backwards and forwards with equal facility.

 

[Vic]

i prefer locust they dont smell nasty like crickets but boy do they jump! they have a nice crunch to them when theyre munched.

 

[Miss Lily]

i prefer locust they dont smell nasty like crickets but boy do they jump! they have a nice crunch to them when theyre munched.

Yeah! Locusts are cool! Lily loves them. I started a thread about the adult one she ate yesterday! https://www.chameleonforums.com/yummy-adult-locusts-22986/ I remove their back 'hopping' legs so they crawl instead of jump! It's funny when you open the lid of the tub no matter how carefully and one always jumps straight out!! Ha ha! Lily likes to eat them, but she freaks out if she gets one on her! She's a bigger wuss than me!!

 

[viaje]

ALL feeders gross me out. I have to use tweezers to hold them, otherwise it's straight from the bag to the feeding cup D:

I CAN'T WAIT for my babies to be big enough to eat hornworms, I think they're so cool and I won't have a problem with them... but crickets basically give me nightmares.