Original poster, thats you. MBD is metabolic bone disease. Comes from not dusting your crickets with calcium every feeding and then having a proper uvb linear bulb to provide your cham with the Vitamin D3 necessary to allow your cham to absorb the calcium. Definetely fill out the form...
Breeders is my only advice. Talk to people on the phone, get their info. Go see the babies if thats a possibility. The more info you can get, the more likely the animal youre going to get is going to be healthy. This goes for all animals. Buying from underground would be like buying from...
I feel like now might be a good time for some to start, if they havent already, a pm to OP about the calcium issues. They havent really been tocuhed since were all concerned about the egg binding. This is all part of the underlying calcium deficiency leading to breaking bones and MBD. Unless I...
As always great read! When I lived in WeiHai China we ate fried silk worm pupae every morning, like soft whipped egg, super tasty. The sego worms or red palm weevil larvae we ate in Sarawak Borneo on the other hand were like slimmy chicken fat with the occasional hint of oak (actual wood...
"Killed one" yesterday by basically ripping its damn head off and fed it to the C. Murina living in the substrate for a protien boost. Found it this morning munching on the sweet potatoe i left in the bottom of his feeder cup for left over feeders...
Yep, this. These are way to small. There will be quite a few little roots coming off the base, thats when you know they are good to cut off.
Id be surprised if they lived. Honestly your best bet is to leave them alone till they look like a relatively good size. Impatience is the doom of all...
I noticed rigid movements that he had never previously displayed. A bit ago he had an issue with his tongue not fully extending so I took him to the vet and they noticed calcium deposits around the tongue. Nothing super crazy, he was fine, eating fine, drinking, no parasites etc. I backed off...
Ive stopped since I heard the episode about getting it all from the uvb at uvi 3. I had cut back on d3 anyway because I saw signs of early over supplementation. My feedings are irregular on purpose so he wasnt getting that much to begin with, but im sitting around 3.5 uvi, so if we are correct...
Every time I buy a new species of insect its, "going to save us money on feeders babe"... banana roaches, dubias, stick insects, leaf insects, mantises, BSFs, hornworms, super worms... yeah an addiction is more like it.
It was mentioned by someone in one of Bills podcasts. I believe it was Nick Barta. I was going to give it a shot, but it seems to have almost completely died.