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So I am breeding crickets in a small enclosure so that I don't have to shell out ten bucks per month on crickets. I have only had this batch of crickets for a few days now, but I am wondering: After waiting seven days for the crickets to lay in my little tray of soil, do I need to incubate the...

DChalo and Chameleonneeds, both of your arguments are very flawed. Chameleons do not have feelings, at least not in the way we do. They do not get sad because they miss their friends and family. What does matter, however, is preserving ecosystems. The issue here is not whether the chameleon will...

This issue you raise speaks to a larger issue of people imbuing their chameleons with human emotion. This isn't ever really a problem, except when people say things like, "My chameleon loves me, she even enjoys being taken on road trips." This is much like people thinking that cats enjoy human...

Argh, sorry for the double-post, internet was being weird.

I am a new owner, have only had a chameleon for about a month or so- female veiled, about 6 months old. One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give you is to make sure that you start with a male! I love my female, but she is currently going through her first infertile clutch, and it is a pain...

I kind of want to try scrambling and eating them just to have done that. Might even be good, who knows. Or, it might be cool to take a few, hollow them out through a little hole in the bottom, and keep the shells as souvenirs.

Yes! Get Michael Crichton on the phone!

So my 6-month-old veiled is pretty far gravid with an infertile clutch and will probably lay within a few weeks. I've got everything worked out with materials, and I've read enough threads on laying to know what all to do when she digs, lays, etc. My only question left is: what am I supposed to...

I voted in the poll, and now I can't see the results. What is it looking like?

I don't know if this would be good or bad, but you might want to try breeding crickets. To do that, you just spent ten bucks or so to get a starter batch of crickets, and then have them be self-sustaining, continuously replenishing their own ranks. I have just started doing this, and if it...

I second that, very helpful indeed.

Well, frankly, I am not entirely sure on that. I spray in my chameleon's direction, and some mist will accumulate on her. She does not seem to like this, and she will generally seek shelter when I do this. I am not sure if I should stop, because it seems like any stress it would cause would be...

You can usually tell when your chameleon wants to go to sleep- mine has a particular part of this one ficus that she always heads to at around 8 PM. When your chameleon heads to this location, hang towels on the sides of the enclosure so light can't get in. I mist my veiled twice a day until all...

Mk, sorry, didn't mean to take over the thread. Greatly appreciate the advice.

My chameleon is pretty far gravid and this is my first time with a chameleon- do I need washed playsand? How much does that cost? Why couldn't I just go to the beach and fill up a trashcan with fine sand?

D3 isn't the only thing they excrete from their nose, they will also excrete salt. However, having been through exactly the same thing that bbarbery went through, I would say it is probably D3 overload.

Thanks for the advice about mesh, that helps muchly. How long do you people generally wait before taking your egg trays out?

I bought my first chameleon, a young veiled, about a month or so ago, and I had the exact same problem. They exude white material from their nose when they are dusted with too much D3. I was doing the exact same thing you are doing. At some point in the future, buy calcium without D3. You are...

Guess I've just got one more question: How will I know when to take out the tray of eggs and put them in their own container? I'll assume that I don't want to wait until they start coming out.

That sounds like a good idea. I wonder if there's any temperature that is too hot for crickets, though?