Oh I put that cricket on a plastic box and was thinkinh about taking to the vet when I go to the check up of one of the babies´ treatment.
I asked Necas to have a look, he adviced me it was a fly maggot. A bit too large for it to be a fruit fly maggot and now in winter is too cold for housflies...
I don't know what I would have done in that situation. Probable burn myself or something. I am still not hundred this was a molting cricket but I just gonna go by that with the second vid I posted which it looked like that.
BTW what did you end up doing when that happen with the gecko?
You may be right. I took a better look and light and looks like a cricket molting? This new babies, my low sight and edgy pathogen thing may have gotten the worse of me.
Well the crickets are 5 mm ca. So the video gives you a idea. I don't think so unless the black hair things in the other end is that and not the crickets antenna.
So finished feeding 2 of the 4 babies when I noticed this in my cricket bin. It's like a squeezed cricket with a maggot coming half way out of it. When I move the bin or blow on it it wiggles. It has me f Ed up. What do I do? Do I try to fecth the crickets out of the 2 enclosures I fed? Do I...
I would be more worry about chameleons liking resicuous of blech on the branches than parasites that can harm them. Chameleons live amoung bugs so that won´t do anything either. perhaps ticks? I would put them in the oven for a while then but anything than flush them with water in the shower...
Happy new year to all my friends and frienemies here on the chameleonforums. I hope you all have a blast and all your litle ones and big ones are doing great.
I notice with my babies that they bask the whole day. the have a basking light and a t 5 uvb that goes across the cages. They do bask the whole day because my room temperature are quite low. I don´t think it´s about the uvb but about the temperature. In my understanding heat and uvb comes from...
I don´t know which kind I bought. I believe common indian ones. I bough a bunch of nymfs for my babies. but I didn´t ask the store to send salal with me. so now I have to find something that I can feed them to keep them alive and that also my chameleons can eat when I feed them.
But they were...