quick feeding question

[Mjdwicinski]

i was just given a jackson cham and had a quick question . i hung his enclosure outside early evening in a rain shower and the porch light kicked on. well the bugs came around the light and then onto his cage. he began eating bugs like he was starving. which he aint he always has crickets in his cricket cup. is it bad for him to eat moths and randon bugs outside,cant imagine it would be consider thats what they would do in the wild. noone around me uses chemical or pesticides

 

[spawn]

There's two schools of thoughts (exception to your pesticides issue assuming you're confident about it) - yes, it's fine; no, it's not, because of wild parasites.

I feed mine wild caught bugs frequently, but most of mine are wild caught anyways. I also have anti-parasite solutions available if I feel it necessary.

You can also catch the bugs, and debug them, but that takes time, and eliminates the point of using WC bugs anyway.

IN any event, YES, you SHOULD vary the diet of your cham (a life of crickets is boring, not to mention not nutritious as a varied diet), but ideally you would compensate for the wild load of parasite and bacteria he could ingest. It's a jackson though so it's probably wild caught anyways.

 

[Jac1582]

Yes totally agree with spawn, another thing to add is lightning bugs are deadly to chams. Anything that glows is lethal from my understanding.