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You're not going to find any captive bred pygmies from a company or commercial breeder. Your only hope for captive bred pygmies is through a small scale hobby breeder and I don't even know of anyone openly breeding/selling CB right now in the US.

If I weren't a year and a half into building up a Tjj project I would have been in on this. I can't dedicate space to a third species project and be able to do right by the animals right now. I'm following it closely though.

I actually keep Americans and Australians as feeders. I find the Americans to be much better feeders than Australians. They're larger, very soft bodied and don't excrete that annoying sticky stuff that Australians and red runners do when you grab them. They are the roach. They will live...

The question of keeping Jacksons together seems to be one of the most frequently asked ones on this forum. Reptile shows and pet stores are completely responsible for this I think. There is no cage big enough for this. Period.

It's hard not to be jealous of the European exotic pet hobby. They're decades or more ahead of us in the US in pretty much every sector I can think of except maybe the breeding of marine ornamentals.

I have the perfect container for them...at my house ;)

You said something about Joel's suggestion?

What was his suggestion?

There seems to be little to no info online regarding incubating the small Calumma species.

In your last post on the linked thread you mentioned incubating 3 eggs. That was almost exactly a year ago. What was the outcome? Still incubating?

This is well put. I didn't know the weight gains had been calculated like that. That's good info to have in your pocket.

Yea I think the most important take always here are: A. An insect does NOT store what it doesn't need. B. When a gut load is discussed in terms of insect diet rather than short term gut packing, the goal is not to alter the insect's composition in favor of the consumer, it is to ensure the...

Crypticum is the most beautiful of the elephant eared chameleons in my opinion. I spent a short time obsessed with them when I learned about them last year. Those blue legs..

Perfect. There you have it.

Gut loading itself is often poorly understood. By definition it's as simple as filling the gut with things nutritious to the final consumer like a chameleon or other pet reptile. Many advanced keepers take it further into their insect husbandry to ensure only the healthiest insects are ever...

I was looking into these a while back when Joel first showed his female off. Very very lucky find to have gotten one let alone 4 crypticum. This is a species absolutely worth getting established.

Bandeds also don't get the virus that browns get. That's why many farms switched species.

When they don't want to eat what you've made for dinner they don't get to eat at all, specially not dessert. Simple as that. No, for real though. I've found one of the best ways to break a hunger/prey strike is to call the bluff. They won't starve in 5 days or even a week. Not to say you...

I'm not going to lie, I had a banded male get lost into my roach bin and I swear he was calling for like a month in there. Freak accident he got in on a piece of egg crate lol Browns definitely would never last that long as adults though.

What kind of cricket are you using and how are they set up? Adult crickets die. None of what you listed should kill them. I use all of those things. Brown crickets last about a week at best under perfect circumstances once they molt to adulthood. Bandeds last 2 weeks at best I think.