Last cham food question

[Rune]

Hopefully. XD
How do you dust your crickets? My calcium gets in my cage and it gets messy.
Also my cham still isnt eating much, and doesnt like wax worms.. Do you think the crix are too big? It would take him about two bites to eat the one i just put in. He only eats about 1-3 a day. For the past 1-2 weeks. >.<

 

[mbondy]

I put my feeders in a bag with some of the supplements and gently shake the bag, then I put them into the feeder cup.

How old is your cham?

 

[Rune]

I put my feeders in a bag with some of the supplements and gently shake the bag, then I put them into the feeder cup.

How old is your cham?

Ah. I shook them up in the cup, then the calcium would slide out. DX I will try that, thank you.
And he is about 2 or so months.

 

[mbondy]

I had quite a few messes myself...put way too much calcium in accidently and just about killed some crickets...whoops!

How big of crickets are you feeding him? I'm no expert but I've a 4ish month old cham and he's been eating 3 week old crickets (but he's very small for his age), I'd assume your guy will need much smaller crickets. What size are you feeding him now?

 

[SonTigerPantherCham]

How big are the crix?
At 2 or so months they should be pretty small. A good rule of thumb is crix between the eyes for length, soft worms the length of head

 

[Rune]

Hmm.. about..half an inch? I varys from crickets though.From a little under half an inch to a little under an inch.
Also my cham Is about 2 inches without his tail.

 

[grimlin18]

i usually just shake em up in a cup too then i open up the cage tilt my cup so its horizontal and the crix usually just start running towards the top of the cup then i just shake em out and usually just a little bit of calcium gets in the cage. and as for the cricket size they should be as big as the space between his eye although if its a little bigger than that it should be fine.

 

[mbondy]

Too big. I'd say 1/2 inch still too big, 1/4 inch should be perfect. My guy won't eat the bigger crickets, I buy all mine at the same time at the same age, some are a little bigger and I end up letting them free. Try crickets that are three weeks old, maybe two weeks old depening on your chams size. Pet stores that specialize in reptiles usually have crickets at varying ages available instead of just saying small-medium-large. I've to go 15 miles one way to get my crickets even though I've a store from me less than a mile away. The things we cham people do