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Personally I think horns and silks are easier than crickets or roaches. I get mine from the various sponsors here; usually Mulberry Farms but have also gotten from Great Lakes Hornworms and Coastal Silkworms. Hornworms will eat either hormworm chow or silkworm chow. Depending on the color of...

Generally chameleons will ignore food items that are still and go after food items that move around. I place hornworrms and silkworns on the branches of my chameleon's tree. I have a vertical feeder I purchased from Nick Barta that I use for crickets and roaches. CJ used to eat roaches as a...

I throw them out as well for the same reasons. I just hate that they fall in there though. I let the silks and horn worms climb around on his plants. I have a dish for butters and phoenix worms and a feeder for the crickets. I was just curious as to what other folks do and it seems we all do...

I got some silkworms for CJ. He ate most of them but when it was time for lights out, I noticed 2 of them on the floor of his cage floating in the water from the mister. I had yet to remove said water and the worms were still alive. My question is what do you all do with those type of worms...

I have had the same problem with maintaining the humidity in CJ's cage. I just posted about it last week. He has been grumpier than normal, not eating, rubbing on branches and was ashy all over his poor body. I bought a warm mist humidifier and have that running beside the cage. I have a...

This is the information that I found by researching several sites that provided the nutritional analysis. I was surprised as well. The other thing about the calcium in phoenix worms is that the ratio of calcium to phosphorous (i think phos) is 2:1.

The humidifier seems to have done the trick. He is shedding like crazy.

I made this table comparing the nutritional value of various feeders. I hope it is legible.

Thanks for the information. I shall try to give him an extra misting or two and see if that helps. I plan on getting a humidifier for my furnace because there is enough static electricity due to dry air to power a small city!! Also as a thank you for my concern and taking him to the vet on...

Conjoined and/or parasitic twins are biologically interesting but I agree with the others. Based on this and your other post about a mystery death and the photo of the chameleon that passed something is seriously wrong with either the genetics (which is beyond your control other than not...

He is not a wild caught animal. I actually got him from a forum member about a year and a half ago. It may be nutritional but I really don't know which came first. He has been off his feed for several weeks, just eating an occasional cricket, he turns his nose up at roaches and superworms. I...

Hi everyone, I have been away from the forums for quite sometime due to the demands of life, work and grad school. Of late CJ has been trying to shed for a couple weeks without much luck. I have been having a hard time keeping the humidity up in his cage since the cold weather set in. I have...

Does anyone else have any insight about what could be going on with his eyes? I appreciate hearing from the senior members on these forums. I do recall a debate about Vit A and how it is made available for the chams but cannot remember specifics. I use Herptivite twice a month and used it for...

CJ's culture came back positive for Klebsiella and Proteus. They are both sensitive to the enrofloxacin he is getting. My question is should I tear down and sanitize his cage? If so what would be the best thing to use? I was thinking a 1:10 bleach solution on the hard surfaces. Then new...

I turned off 2 of the lights in my UV fixture. I thought that may be the answer as he seemed to have his eyes open all the time but alas he has resumed the closing of the eyes. I am still going to leave them off for a bit as maybe he needs some time for what ever issue may have occurred to...

Hibiscus and schefflera. They have been in his cage since I got him.

I use herptivite twice a month and gutload my feeders with cricket crack (I think it is one of the gutloads from Nick Barta) and left over salad greens. I am well aware that closed eyes can indicate health problems hence the multiple vet visits and hundreds of dollars for vet...

So for the past 7 weeks I have been concerned about CJ. He had two really difficult sheds in March-April. They took a couple weeks and the shed was patchy. That was the last two weeks of March and then he shed again towards the end of April. It was during that second shed I noticed him...

The recipe made 4 batches of dry food. When mixed it filled at least 4 deli-cups like the hornworms come in from the breeders and yes I have successfully used this for hornworms.

Please let me know if you see anything in CJ's cage that needs to be changed. I know one of the UV bulbs is burned out in the photo but my replacements just arrived and the problem has been taken care of!