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Are those the ones legal to ship cross country now? Getting a legal non-diapausing katydid species going could be a big deal

I used to see them up at a friend's cabin in the Sierra Nevadas all the time, though they have since sold that place. I may keep an eye out if I'm anywhere nearby this spring/summer. I just begrudgingly use banded crickets because I can buy them locally. Spicoli (my panther) is six and...

My understanding is those are markedly destructive pests that aren't widespread in California though. I'm sure you're right about comparative feeder value but I worry about helping something like that cross the Sierra Nevadas, even though I suspect intrastate invasion risk is low. Reptile...

I was obsessed with this question back in 2019-2020 and I screened dozens of common and uncommon house plant species to find which would grow best as understory plants. I even spent quite a bit of time at a botanical conservatory examining growth patterns to try and figure out what would grow...

@jamest0o0 @scags @SauceGandhi Have any of you heard of/tried raising cave/camel crickets? California camel crickets would be my local species but there are a lot of different ones native to the US. My interest in them as a possible feeder is twofold: 1) They appear gregarious, which potentially...

Up to 5 responses encompassing several chameleons, I am bumping this up again to try and increase the numbers, and then I will probably try posting on some other chameleon related sites. Does anyone know of any relevant Facebook groups I could try?

My main issue is they are small so I need to feed more of them, and they escape dishes and hide in the enclosure and my animals never find them. I don't doubt they're easiest to breed, I had like four successive generations in my bioactive leopard gecko enclosure until I managed to eradicate...

It sounds like you're basically doing things right. I have not personally bred this species though. Maybe increase the protein in their diet? I have read this species can be actively predatory in the wild. Some other ideas if you're not able to get them dialed in: the book I cited also mentions...

I'd recommend this book: https://smile.amazon.com/Breeding-Food-Animals-Vivarium-Black/dp/1575240459/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SNUTTD9BUTVN&keywords=breeding+food+for+vivarium+animals&qid=1668927532&s=books&sprefix=breeding+food+for+vivarium+animals%2Cstripbooks%2C212&sr=1-1 It has a whole section on...

One to two years is common for panther chameleons in the wild - in captivity females can live longer. Three is the common age I see mentioned as the lifespan for unbred females. I don't have a lot of responses to the survey yet but one respondent had a female live until 4yo. If anyone on here...

It's a good thought; I do need the information to be consistent between groups in order to be comparable (the main goal will be seeing what techniques are consistent among 6+ year old animals, and what separates those animals from those that did not live to be 6yo). There is likely a way to...

Also worth noting: I have a lot of plants in my enclosure, including understory plants, and I am of the opinion the best way to light for that in a tall vivarium is with LED spotlights or floodlights with a low beam angle (I use regular 5000k LED floodlights with beam angle of 60 degrees or...

Maybe I'm too much of a contrarian but I laughed when I saw this product revealed after I heard it billed as a brand new innovative heating/lighting solution. It's a bunch of products that already exist Frankenstein-ed together in roughly the same configuration I already have on my chameleon...

Thanks that's a good suggestion. I think the next step here is to try and expand beyond the forums to bring in additional respondents

Thank you!

I'll second that, I don't intentionally add earthworms to the setup, I think they break down the substrate too quickly. That said, my experience with them is from an accidental introduction and they haven't destroyed that setup and it's been four years. I do have to add a bunch of mulch every 6...

thank you!

I have expanded to include panther chameleons aged 6+ that are still alive

Let me check and see how the settings work, it may be worthwhile to open it up to folks who have living panther chameleons over the age of 6 as they have by definition already exceeded that benchmark (I fall into that category myself)

https://smile.amazon.com/Breeding-Food-Animals-Vivarium-Black/dp/1575240459/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DI92NYRFQFPP&keywords=breeding+food+animals+live+food+for+vivarium+animals&qid=1668581795&s=books&sprefix=breeding+food+animals+live+food+for+vivarium+animals%2Cstripbooks%2C189&sr=1-1 ^this is a good...