Waste of my time.

[seanUTD]

So for those of you who had followed my quest to become a woodlice breeder for some benefit feeders... Well.... It was a waste of time... I finally fiNAlly FINALLY!! bred to the third generation on gut load and I was so excited I put a few in Herbie's cage today and he ZAPPED! and then spat.... He hates them... What a MASSIVE waste of time and effort... So I dumped the whole colony from whence it came (the bushes ) and turned the drawer I housed them in into a superworm bin that will be filled with 500 worms as of saturday... So yea.... PM me if you want to know how to breed those little $^&** because they honestly would make okay treats and they are easy to maintain but be sure your cham likes them first... Hmph...

 

[mbondy]

Lol I'm only commenting to say our chams have the same name, Herbie

 

[seanUTD]

Lol I'm only commenting to say our chams have the same name, Herbie

Lol the fiancé got to name this one... I was going to go with Quentin Tarantino... I have a sort of... thing... for cult movies... Sort of a sickness you could say...

 

[mbondy]

Yeah no kidding! My guy has a Herbie personality, as least I've convinced myself that as he's so friendly...doesn't your guy bite?? lol

 

[Elizadolots]

Thank you, Sean. I appreciate the fact that you owned up to a waste of time in order to help the rest of us. That was very nice of you.

 

[seanUTD]

Yeah no kidding! My guy has a Herbie personality, as least I've convinced myself that as he's so friendly...doesn't your guy bite?? lol

Yes apparently I've made him famous on these forums for that... He didn't when we got him... He had a difficulty for a few days while trying to acclimate and I think it all started when I placed him on my fiancé's hand so I could move something in his cage and he bit then due to stress... Because she was so not ready to be bit she moved her arm and the little guy fell three feet to the carpet... He was okay don't get me wrong but he definitely jarred himself to the point where he climbed right onto my hand so I could put him home... He actually hasn't been out of his cage since then and that was May 24th... He's bitten us three times since then... Just attempts to even touch him... He's fine with us in his cage, he pays no attention... But try to pick him up and SNAP!!

 

[seanUTD]

Thank you, Sean. I appreciate the fact that you owned up to a waste of time in order to help the rest of us. That was very nice of you.

How else do we learn than when we royally blow our money into a fire pit of worthlessness haha... To me you can never make enough mistakes... That way, people will trust what you have to say more because more than knowing how to succeed is to know all the ways you can fail My motto... Thanks for the encouraging gratitude Eliza!

 

[DavidBuchan]

I hate it when that happens - I have a bluebottle thing in the garden called 'project maggot' - it's gone wrong a couple of times for different reasons and when it does the time effort and food put into it is annoying - could have just bought some in........
Oh well, at least they will like the flies if it works this time......
Maybe you could have tried him again with the woodlice though, might be an acquired taste?

 

[seanUTD]

I hate it when that happens - I have a bluebottle thing in the garden called 'project maggot' - it's gone wrong a couple of times for different reasons and when it does the time effort and food put into it is annoying - could have just bought some in........
Oh well, at least they will like the flies if it works this time......
Maybe you could have tried him again with the woodlice though, might be an acquired taste?

I had figured after a while that they weren't gonna fly with Herbie... Plus the colony had had its "times" of uncertainty with parasitic worms of some alien planet that I had to rid from the colony and many other climactic issues but their size is what made me dump the colony... Herbie is at that bean-sprout age where he is just going to flourish and the bigger they get the less interest they seem to have in smaller bugs... Stanley my other guy even went on a hunger strike for four friggin days last week because I only had the Herbie sized crickets and not the full grown ones... I had to feed off MORE dubia nymphs out of my already pathetic dubia colony, not to mention a few silks and a properly inappropriate number of supers just to get him to eat... finicky is the only word for the diet of a panther chameleon IMHO.... Gotta love 'em... gotta HATE their appetites...

 

[pssh]

Are you sure they weren't nematodes? People use them to feed their fish, but they grow in moist soil as well.

Perhaps you weren't feeding a variety of woodlice that he likes.

 

[seanUTD]

Are you sure they weren't nematodes? People use them to feed their fish, but they grow in moist soil as well.

Perhaps you weren't feeding a variety of woodlice that he likes.

I was just feeding the most common breed, the pill bugs... I wasn't trying to do anything more that get a cheap renewable feeder /: And I searched all over the place for the worms online and when I came across nematodes I thought the same thing... I DID find some that were nematodes but there were a few I could not say were... They looked.. different and were mostly by recently dead pill bugs on the SURFACE as opposed to in the soil...

 

[pssh]

Pill bugs seem to have a harder shell than the sowbugs. I would venture down to a park and look for some sowbugs and see how those go. Mine love sow bugs.

 

[DavidBuchan]

I had figured after a while that they weren't gonna fly with Herbie... Plus the colony had had its "times" of uncertainty with parasitic worms of some alien planet that I had to rid from the colony and many other climactic issues but their size is what made me dump the colony... Herbie is at that bean-sprout age where he is just going to flourish and the bigger they get the less interest they seem to have in smaller bugs... Stanley my other guy even went on a hunger strike for four friggin days last week because I only had the Herbie sized crickets and not the full grown ones... I had to feed off MORE dubia nymphs out of my already pathetic dubia colony, not to mention a few silks and a properly inappropriate number of supers just to get him to eat... finicky is the only word for the diet of a panther chameleon IMHO.... Gotta love 'em... gotta HATE their appetites...

Yep, my male just got over a hunger strike himself.....back on little crickets and locusts. I think he stopped because he wanted waxworms - well I wasn't going to let that happen, but then he refused his normal sized crickets and took days to start to eat the smaller ones. That's wasted some crickets, but I do have loads of new little ones, so I only need to buy one extra box (going out of my way on my day off, again)

 

[pssh]

I havent had any issues with my guys since I started to feed them 3 times a week max and I always use different feeders. They now get a variety of over 20 different species of insects and they are excited about eating every single one of them! Even the small ones.

 

[chameleongirl2]

Really~

so it was a COMPLETE waste of time? i did that and it worked perfectly