Hi everyone,
I've got a 2-year-old male veiled chameleon who loooves munching on crickets. But I keep running into the same problem with them.
I buy about 25 crickets at a time from the pet store, take them home, and put them in a decently sized enclosure with those little black tubes that the crickets can hide in, and that can be removed and poured into a cup for feeding.
I keep a paper towel at the bottom of the enclosure, and I put mustard greens (or collard greens, depending on what's available at the grocery store), and carrot shavings in there for gut-loading.
I used to also include a small piece of wet sponge for the crickets to hydrate, but the crickets kept dying and turning black / turning almost gooey, so I figured they were hydrating too much.
Now that I've removed the sponge, the crickets have plenty of food to munch on (and plenty of water in the food to hydrate), but they keep dying still. They become immobilized and just sort of go into a coma or something and move in slow motion or don't move at all.
Also, they are increasingly showing this weird issue with their legs, where the legs look bent backwards at the knee, so the crickets cant really walk around well, or climb.
I wash the veggies before I put them in the cage, and I keep the cage in a safe, ventilated place away from too much direct light. I wash it every 2 days and ensure the crickets have an excellent quality of life while they await to be devoured by a hideous tree-monster.
What the hell is going on with my crickets?
I've got a 2-year-old male veiled chameleon who loooves munching on crickets. But I keep running into the same problem with them.
I buy about 25 crickets at a time from the pet store, take them home, and put them in a decently sized enclosure with those little black tubes that the crickets can hide in, and that can be removed and poured into a cup for feeding.
I keep a paper towel at the bottom of the enclosure, and I put mustard greens (or collard greens, depending on what's available at the grocery store), and carrot shavings in there for gut-loading.
I used to also include a small piece of wet sponge for the crickets to hydrate, but the crickets kept dying and turning black / turning almost gooey, so I figured they were hydrating too much.
Now that I've removed the sponge, the crickets have plenty of food to munch on (and plenty of water in the food to hydrate), but they keep dying still. They become immobilized and just sort of go into a coma or something and move in slow motion or don't move at all.
Also, they are increasingly showing this weird issue with their legs, where the legs look bent backwards at the knee, so the crickets cant really walk around well, or climb.
I wash the veggies before I put them in the cage, and I keep the cage in a safe, ventilated place away from too much direct light. I wash it every 2 days and ensure the crickets have an excellent quality of life while they await to be devoured by a hideous tree-monster.
What the hell is going on with my crickets?
