breeders!! what do you use to feed your baby chams?

[Treetop Chameleons]

do you buy your baby cham food?

do you grow your baby cham food?

what do you use for your baby food crix,flys ext..?

and last but not least any tips on getting baby cham food ready as far as befor the eggs hatch?

one more sorry lol.. is it cheeper to buy the baby food or to grow your food?

 

[Dean Pulcini]

I had success in growing my own pinheads must of had 5 thousand at one time. It's not that difficult to do but it dose require heat and moisture to hatch the eggs also you will have to start out with alot of full grown crickets. It will save you money if you can do it because hatchlings can eat especially when you have a big clutch.

 

[mcghee26]

I am raising to baby chameleons, got them when they were about 2 months and raised them on fruit flies, just recently sswitched to small crickets. the fruit flies are rather easy to grow yourself. start off with a some fruit flies and then you can make some more by using instant mashed potatoes, red wine vinegar, water and some fruit fresh preservitive. I make the solution with enough vinegar to moisten the potatoes and then use water to make the potatoes soupy. I then sprinkle the fruit fresh on top, just use that as a preservative so the potatoes don't mold. I then take a paper towel square and roll it up and then fold it in half and shove it in the potatoes with most of it coming up the container so the flies have something to crawl onto. With the flies you bought you can put some in the other containers and in a few weeks you will have thousands of fruitflies. hope this helps.

 

[DonArmani]

I wonder where's the best info/instruction on creating/getting/breeding pinheads/fruitflies

 

[Breeze]

You can go on google and search breeding crickets and it tells you how... And for getting... you can check out our sponsors (some insect ones), great quality products or go to a local petstore... remember to gutload your crix

Edit: http://www.wormman.com/breeding_crickets.cfm breeding crix

 

[laurie]

I feed my newborn veileds fruit flys and by about 2 weeks add in 1/16 inch crickets. I order the crickets several 1,000 at a time from Ghann crickets. I grow the fruit flys. I have fruit flys on hand when babies are due but don't order crickets until agter they arrive and are eating well.

 

[sandrachameleon]

do you buy your baby cham food?
do you grow your baby cham food?

Raise my own.

what do you use for your baby food crix,flys ext..?

fruit flies (two types), pinhead crickets, baby superworms, baby silkworms, baby terrestrial isopods, baby roaches etc

and last but not least any tips on getting baby cham food ready as far as befor the eggs hatch?

I always have fruit flies and supers and isopods and roaches going (cheap, easy)

one more sorry lol.. is it cheeper to buy the baby food or to grow your food?

grow, if more than one baby, if you plan to breed
if its just one hatchling, one time, you may find it easier to buy

 

[DonArmani]

You guys rock, sponsors too, keep it up Cham Fam!

You are all awesome!