Replacement for roaches and crickets...

[Salty]

Crickets stink, Roaches scare me. What can I use for a staple... a good worm that I can use for a staple would be the best.

Speaking of which... I am going to call mulberry farms tomorrow and make my first food order.

So far, in the past 3 days that I have had him, he may have eaten a couple of crickets... but I'm not sure as his cage is big. I did hand feed him 2 big milworms today, he missed 3 times though and his last attempt he could barely spit his toung out. Can't intrest him in taking a cricket out of my hand...

What should I get!! please help.

 

[Eltortu]

Were you the member that was going to feed baby chameleons to your chameleons?

 

[Salty]

LMAO. Yes, But he won't eat the chameleons unless I can glue them to something tasty...

 

[Solid Snake]

Roaches are tasty...

 

[Salty]

I do have a breeder colony of them chillin in a cabinate... my wife does not know about them, but, It's going to take several weeks until dubias are ready... plus I would like to find something that I do not have to fear if they excape. That's my biggest fear, they get out, and then I can't get rid of them.

 

[Solid Snake]

Salty...you cant live in fear...




Really crickets, roaches, and silkworms are the only "main" staples you can use.
You will still need to vary the diet from time to time though.
JMO

 

[Salty]

Lol.

Silk Worms!!! Great, an alternitive! Awesome.

 

[Salty]

Wholly silkworms!! Those things are like fifty cents each! I'ma have to grow those too.... Hmmm

 

[sandrachameleon]

there is no one worm that can be used as a staple
You might get away with using a combo of silkworms (gutloaded with more than just mulberry) along with very well gutloaded superworms plus gutloaded terrestrial isopods

 

[Whatcamo]

Keep your crickets warm and dry and I least know mine don't stink!

 

[DanSB]

I haven't found any good information on this but there are multiple cricket species available as feeders. The store i go into locally breeds some weird cricket that isn't the normal brown, and it isn't the black field cricket (maybe a cross?) and I don't think it's the Jamaican field cricket. Either way it stinks way less than the brown field crickets and is a lot fatter.

Maybe look into different cricket species? Sorry I can't be of more help but at least that might be a place to start some research.

I'm intensely curious if the different species have different nutritional values as well. I know they have different smells.

 

[fluxlizard]

I can't believe I fell for another thread this troll put up a week or two back.

 

[Robyrango]

Worms all the way!

I'm using silkworms as staple, some butterworms every once in a while and superworms as my chameleon stopped eating crickets and he was going without food for weeks! Make sure you gutload well.
But I believe that keeping crickets, if your chameleon eats them, is certainly a good thing!