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Lol! The larvae are super hardy especially after they reach the pre pupa stage. They can withstand high temps and lack of moisture. Their needs are pretty simple.

My answer is Vitamin A deficiency. There isn't enough vitamin A in captive raised feeders in order to sustain the vitamin A needs of a chameleon. Even gutloaded feeders don't contain the vitamin A that is needed to sustain the health of a chameleon. I belive that the amount of vitamin A a...

Black Soldier Flies (the flying adults) can't be gutloaded because they dont eat. They don't have mouth parts like regular flies. They live to breed which is 5-10 days. All the nutrition comes from the larvae stage. However the flies will drink so if you mist them with water it can slightly...

Yes they will eat silkworm chow. Make sure it is slightly moist.

Actually that's not true regarding fruits w phosp canceling out calcium. Soldier Fly Larvae are natural composters that can virtually eat anything including manure. No matter what you feed them they still produce tons of calcium with a perfect calcium to phosphorus ratio.

It will take forver for them to eat kale, spinach, etc. because there is too much cellulose for them to break down. It needs to be super soft. If you cook the kale they could eat it. If you put an apple or a patatoe in there they won't eat the peal.

Lol! Yeah if you put them in a dish and they are slightly damp they won't hesitate to crawl out. I breed them and a couple of days ago I didn't close the lid tight enough on my Lavae bin and I had hundreds of them that escaped and were crawling around on my basement floor. There were so many...

They might be able to climb out between the slats on the lid. If there is any humidity or moisture they can pretty much climb up anything and even stick to the underside of a lid and if there is a hole they will happily climb out :)

That's awesome you already tried it! Yup bananas are their favorite! :p

The human comparison was just an example. Any Animal (humans are animals) fed the exact same thing every single day will eventually become sick due to vitamin deficiencies. For example you can't feed a cat fish its whole life. People thought they could feed Turtles hamburger its whole life and...

I absolutely 100% agree with everything you said. I do the same thing as you when it comes to feeding wild insects and I don't worry about parasites. I love summers in Maine because it means free food:) Right now there are grasshoppers and Wild crickets outside my house so my chams have been...

Ok when they are white in color they are still at the stage where they need to eat. If they're in a small deli cup type of container move them to a little larger container with a lid. Just dump everything in including the larvae and the bedding they came in. Poke a couple of small holes in the...

What size is the larvae and is their color white or black?

It's going to be amazing watching them grow. I hope you will keep us updated

I disagree with feeding just crickets. You are correct that there isn't any scientific evidence of chameleons dying from just eating crickets alone...that we know of. But, if you read past threads on CF there are pleanty of instances of chams dying for various reasons and many of those reasons...

Congratulations!! Those little ones are so adorable!! Such beautiful coloring!!

Read this :) Nutritional Value of Comercially raised insects http://www.geckotime.com/nutritional-value-of-commercially-raised-insects/

I think it might be this http://www.mlbs.virginia.edu/organism/ranatra

Cute Pic! Those are my chams favorites! Nothing tastes yummer then a horn worm :)

If you have given him antibiotics and nothing seems to be working, but the eye still seems sensitive, it could be a vitamin A deficiency.