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Keep them warm (around 80 degrees) and make sure they have a good amount of food and moisture in their enclosure, and they'll be doing the nasty in no time! Also make sure you have 2 to 3 inches of soil for them to burrow down in to lay eggs. Sometimes the soil being too shallow will discourage...

A healthy cham can go a week or two without eating, so long as it's hydrated. That being said, i tried not giving my cham any food as, just like you, i wanted him to eat roaches. I would try feeding him a dubia every other day, but a week later he still refused and i just gave up and returned...

I agree with NikeTide. Despite what others's say, Jacksons are not a good 'first time cham owner' chameleon, especialy since it looks like you still have questions regarding basic care. Chams need live food, so that means with the execption of wax worms (which are only good as the occassional...

Had this happen to my previous Cham. This is likely one of two things: 1) An Injury - caused by him shooting and hitting something, or a feeder going in his mouth in a weird angle and possibly scraping/scratching his tongue... 2) More than likely , he has a calcium deficiency. Calcium is...

1)Hard boiled eggs are a no no. Way too much animal proten for a chameleon's diet and can lead to kidney issues, etc. 2) I heavily dust the super worm. My cham will usually only eat one that day. 3)I have a small reptibreeze cage that i use to safely leave him outside in. I've had a bird snatch...

I personally think that crickets are superior to roaches. Here's why: Gut load 1) I've notice that even after crickets are brought home after being purchased and you dump them into a container in order to gut load them, they immediately start feeding on whatever food item you have set aside...

I don't want to discourage you from getting a Jackson's I just wanted you to be aware that there are easier species for a beginner. Jacksons are my all time favorite specie. It was the first chameleon I got more than 20 years ago, and I made many mistakes in the beginning. It looks like you...

I would not recommend a jacksons as a first time chameleon keeper. They can be tricky to keep healthy for longer than a year for someone who does not have prior chameleon keeping experience, due to their sensitivity to supplementation, hydration and humidity requirements. Please reconsider...

1) Keep them in a dark area. 2) Keep them at around 75-85 degrees. 3) Keep their enclosure humid via misting. 4) Make sure you have at least 2 inches of soil if you want them to breed. 5) Feed them mostly dark leafy greens, carrots, cucumbers. Change out every other day to avoid flies, mold...

You shouldn't peel off the mucus plug imo, doing so wakes them up abruptly and may cause them to get sick and die prematurely. The ones that survived; just place them in a tank with about 2 inches of damp (not wet) soil and leave dark greens like Collards in there and mist the tank about twice a...

Just order some off eBay.

Just speculating here but i assume it's because the meat of a snail is so moist and 'slimy' compared to that of a mealworm, that it acts as a natural lubricant for the chams digestive tract when it comes to the shell. When my Cham poops after eating snails, i NEVER see any shell in the feces...

Sure are and they're easy to breed.

Snails are one of my 3 main feeders for my Jacksons. He loves them.

Curious about the nutritional value of the newly emerged ones, since these are the ones my cham has been eating…

I live in MD, and over the past few weeks there has been an emergence of Cicacdas all over the state. There's especially a large number of them in my backyard and the garden birds have been gorging on them. I don't typically like to feeding wild caught insects to my Jacksons, but i couldn't...

With D3…. Absolutely not. D3 is not water soluble so it stays and builds up in their system. Just a few hours of natural sunlight per week with cause your chams body to synthesize the adequate amount of D3 it's body needs, in a much safer dose that dusting can provide. It's body will make only...

Sure doesn't. I never give my cham Calcium with D3 during the months he spends a few hours per week outside. Mother nature will take care of it for you. Just make sure there's enough calcium in the diet to put the D3 your cham's body will synthesize to good use.

I've always free ranged my crickets. As mentioned, crickets usually stay towards the top of the enclosure around the heat/light during the day. At night when the lights go out, they roam around the cage. I always leave a cream cheese lid full of gut load at the bottom of the enclosure and have...

Veileds will actually lick the powder as is. I used to place a cream cheese lid with calcium powder in it, in my late Veileds enclosure, and he would come down to the cage bottom and lick it up.