Has anyone bred anoles as a feeder? If so, what temps, what setup, what problems?
Nick
Nick
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Nick must has some baaaaddd lizards...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfagZGPMfO4
What about feeding out morning geckos?
It isn't necessary to feed some, so why do it ? Here are so many threads about bad pet shops which don't keep reptiles (including chameleons) false and you feed some to your chameleon
And there's another problem beside the ethic one: Those anoles are with guarantee full of parasites, just imagine how bad they are kept till the end in your chameleons mouth. They are sold to importeurs for probably less than 1$ and that's also the way they are treaten. Like animals which are worth anything.
The result are very unhealthy feeders
Anoles do not lay enough eggs to be sustainable as a feeder. If I were to breed a lizard for feeders it would be Veileds.
i can see your side of this story, but if you get you cham tested for parasaites routinley, give dewromer rountinley like reccomended your chameleon should be just fine and even become healthier than it was before.
If you think about anything we feed our chameleon could be inporperly cared for, that is why we gutload everything before giving it to our chameleon. I would think anyone feeding anoles would be doing the same exact thing. I know that i did. Its easy they eat the same things as our chams do. I even calcium dusted the crickets.:d
I would just understand it when sb takes them or geckos as a feeder for specialized snakes, but for chameleons
Blaptica dubia could be also very big feeders or some sorts of the stick insects
@Codi: If you give them too often those medicins you can cause parasite resistances
OVer here you can actually buy CB anoles that wee bread as feeders.
I dont know if its worth while or not...Maybe if you have LOADS of chameleons.... I myself NEVER intend to breed them as feeders. I only had the one adult cham and would buy one every so often when I was buying crickets or other bugs.Ok, I don't know this. Is it worthwile to breed them as feeders I mean if sb do this with Pogona vitticeps I understand it, but anoles ?