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Congrats :)

Lubbers are toxic no matter what you feed them. They are in a completely different family (Romaleidae) from what we consider typical grasshoppers (Acrididae). They have advanced toxin sequestration mechanisms that can mix and match compounds from non-toxic plants to create noxious chemicals...

I always give the female food while breeding, so never had that issue :)

I do have some giant asian mantis (Hierodula membranacea) adult pairs, if you want to make your own ooths. They lay huge ooths that take about 40 days to hatch, no cooling required. Just need once/week misting. I've never counted the babies, but it appears to be around 100/ooth and they lay 4 or...

Depends on the species.

Yes, sorry stock is going to be low for a bit, as I work on setting up many new species. Things should look much better in the summer :)

Not sure... in general, I've gotten the most requests for spotted bird grasshoppers, but every chameleon can be different. I do have other types of spotted bird hoppers that are softer hatching in a few months too. But then again, it's probably a good idea to get a variety of exoskeleton...

I'm working on a few species with much less tibia barb since ideally you want to be eating the whole grasshopper. Up to 7 species available by this summer, as all the new stuff begins to hatch. Exciting times :)

Yes, but our businesses are completely separate, so to be clear, we aren't partners in any sense other than we still have some shared social media pages that I made a few years ago. Back then, I taught him how to breed grasshoppers and helped him grow his business, because I was too busy with...

The famous chameleon kit - terrible for chameleons, great for grasshoppers 😆

Yes but it's like cheating so only use this method if desperate.

Yes, that's the one (y)

I make my own dry grasshopper food because none of the commercially available ones have the correct ingredients for grasshoppers. Keep in mind, it is a dry diet, so they will need a lot of hydration when using this, so pair it with some type of lettuce. You can either dust the lettuce or feed in...

@FramsChams your silks look great! Do you guys switch them onto leaf at any point or chow all the way?

Probably start at medium :)

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Yeah I'll have to make a guide on that at some point. State rules are most important (e.g., keeping species native to your state). Melanoplus differentialis is a great species in this sense because USDA has removed all regulations on it.

Looks like a really old thread but my new website is feedmychameleon.com For grasshopper species I have Schistocerca nitens/lineata/shoshone, Melanoplus differentialis/bivittatus, along with katydids, etc.

We'll make it happen :)

Many of these numbers are questionable. I don't know about this one specifically, but dubia roach companies made charts like these, skewed in their favor, to boost sales. I noticed that sources were often missing or not scientific at all, but no one bothers to check (understandable, we don't...