another one about crickets...

[barnaby]

Hi all!

I have an (almost!) 4 months old pigmy cham and I use pinhead crickets as staple food. I've notice that, an hour or so after I release them in the enclosure they tend to hide in the substrate or in vegetation and branches and lay low. I believe crics are noctivagous (sp) and cham diurnal(sp)...
I use pieces of carrot to try to lure them out but they don't seem very intersted in that (at least in the morning before I go to work...) and my cham only like free roam crickets, she doesn't know what to do if I give them to her in a cup or so. I believe she's still too young...

question: Does my cham, during the day, will actively hunt them? or does she only eat those first couple of disoriented crickets and the rest will just grow in the enclosure hidden from her?

Thanks!

 

[stevereecy]

Hi all!

I
question: Does my cham, during the day, will actively hunt them? or does she only eat those first couple of disoriented crickets and the rest will just grow in the enclosure hidden from her?

Thanks!

Yes, and yes. Put food out for the crickets, but put the food in a location in the open where your chameleon will see the crickets eating it.

 

[barnaby]

Yes, and yes. Put food out for the crickets, but put the food in a location in the open where your chameleon will see the crickets eating it.

Yep. I put the food in the open. Maybe when I'm not there, the crics will come out and my cham will hunt them...

 

[Julirs]

My pygmies hunt all day long. You see them hanging pointing towards the ground waiting for a cricket to come out. My suggestion would be to get your lonely pygmy some friends!

 

[barnaby]

My pygmies hunt all day long. You see them hanging pointing towards the ground waiting for a cricket to come out. My suggestion would be to get your lonely pygmy some friends!

I will, I will...

I'm just waiting for her to reach maturity in the next 3/4 month and I'll buy a male and another female!