This is interesting to know, i used hydrogen peroxide to deal with a mealybug infestation on my umbrella tree and known its uses in control in pests on plants i also used to use it on algae control on planted aquarium. Didn't know how safe it is with chameleons though
do only the roaches have to be farmed?Hi.Congrats on your pending chameleon! All looks okay to me except feeders. I’ll attach both feeder and gutload sheets for you. Superworms should not be a staple feeder as they are too fatty, not to mention addictive. There’s several other good feeders to use as staples and of course, chams like variety as much as we do. I hear you about roaches but I’d suggest trying them. The roaches we use for feeders aren’t anything like disgusting German roaches or palmetto bugs. I hate them as much as everyone else, but I’ve got nice colonies of discoids and Surinam.
I’m not sure about using avocado as gutload. I seem to recall reading somewhere that it is toxic for some reptiles.
If you haven’t already found your way there, https://chameleonacademy.com/ is a fantastic resource for learning about chameleons. Make sure to check out the podcasts too. Another great resource is Neptune the chameleon on YouTube. Of course, the forum is always helpful and feel free to ask as many questions as needed. Most important of all though...you have to post pics of your cham when you get him/her.
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Preferably all feeders should be bought from healthy and reputable feeder insect companies. If you live where there’s no pesticides or city pesticid spray overs, you can use wild-caught. Just be careful, as wild-caught and bad feeder companies posse a higher risk for parasites. Whatever you choose, fecal floats are recommended!
Edit: pose, not posse
try to quarantine the plants for a month or so, while they're quarantine, try to water them with just water so all fertilizer can flush out.Found a lowes by my work with some plants. Just got one or two
I know all that, I was just commenting on the Feeder Sheet. Only Roaches say farm, and not any of the other bugs.
I wouldn't say you are worrying to much. They are probably using mycobutanil and other systemic fungicides unfortunately propagating will not remove these as it's already in the cutting. In general most systemic pesticides should leave the plants systems in like 3 months though.
Do you have a link ... I have been having the same issues with finding live plants now... also do you mind if I ask where you have ordered your panther from I think I’m might be getting mine from the same place ... mine will be ready approximately March
Yes - it took 2 weeks but just got my order-
I used to dip them in diluted Sanidate. Thats mostly to prevent fungi though.
I was under the impression that any new growth will not have the pesticide, only what was already treated.
But if you use a cutting, that is treated if you don’t clean it off, as it’s not new growth
I feel you on trying to find plants right now. All the Pothos I found around here has some serious frost bite to them. Lowes and Depot left them all out to freeze...
I wait for new growth, I don’t just get a cutting and stick it Vivarium. I get a cutting, root it on spag moss, wait for new significant growth, then I stick in vivarium.
That's not the case but depends on what kind of systemic pesticides are used and how nasty they are. For example it's been a big issue in Canadian cannabis where people bought clones from nurseries and failed pesticide testing on buds from all the clones over 3 months later. Mind you this is 3 months of new growth including and entire flower cycle. It can take over 7 back to back rounds of tissue culturing the same material to remove systemic pesticides or pathogens from plant material in many instances.
For the record I am by no means telling you you're not doing the right thing, because you are.
It sounds like a pregnant mother. Whatever she puts in her body, transfers over to baby. If that is a drug, baby is affected even after being born. DNA could have been damaged which can then continue to following generations. Might be a stretch but thats how I think of it
