"Should I cut back supplements? I started repashy with A and D3 twice a month instead of once because he gets less sun since it’s winter."
At minimum they doubled the monthly dosage recently.
Every cham is a different, they can go 5 years on the same sched and then end up with edema and need...
My goto for edema is remove all vitamin/mineral supplements for 30 days and see if it goes away.
Only give them calcium without D3.
9 out of 10 times its due to a build up of fat soluble vitamin.
Vitamins A, D, E, and K are the fat-soluble vitamins
What keeps my crickets alive is airflow airflow airflow. All my bins have at least 2 full sides of heavy guage screen, other than the pin heads. If you dont have enough airflow, they will literally fart themselves to death from not getting the poop gases out.
Your doing it all wrong...
Get a tarantula setup with coco fiber.
Keep it moist
Put in hand full of crickets
tarantula.exe not found
crickets fall in love
sea of pinheads a few weeks later
rescue annoyed tarantula
Also excuse to post snowball pics
The issue is if 100% crickets is a healthy diet, that is perfectly fine.
The issue is when hunger strikes start, now you have nothing to fall back on.
I just do feeder cups with a trail mix of feeders and hope for some misses. Its pretty common for juveniles to only each just crickets. And by...
D3 is at least every 2 weeks for a growing cham. And its still every 2 weeks for vitamins. This is somewhat dependent on the cham. Some get over supplemented and get edema from too many fat soluble vitamins.
Yea in my case it pays for its self in a year or so if you are running multiple cages. If you are just running one bulb, well $250 can buy a lot of bulbs :p
In my case i was even recycling the 12%'s from the beardy cages to the cham cages after they went down by half, then its like having a...
I can get several years out of the arcadia and Zoomed T5 HO's before they go down by half power and need to be exchanged. At the 24 month mark ive had at least 2/3 new output on 5 bulbs.
So its not detrimental to be a little off. They only need a few hours of direct sunlight per week, which...
Ive had good luck with this style.
You just fill it with "stuff" and a drop of dish soap. The stuff can be a piece of fruit in water, or a bit of vinegar, or even a bit of wine.
I have not raise a cham egg. But i got split reptile eggs due to fert eggs rotting. The egg would die, and burst from the outgassing/swelling. Slugs on the other hand never swelled/burst/split, they just rotted and collapsed.
If that is a fruit fly larva, then you live next to a nuke plant.
Guessing its just blue bottle or house fly. It seems you maybe running a bit wet in the tank.
But honestly you are going to end up with cleaner crew one way or the other :P