Camiezone babies from Homer and Big Girl

[ChamelaChameleon]

I don’t do anything special, I just have a 100W heat bulb in each cage, feed them cricket crack and some greens. The one that keeps on mating and laying eggs are the first batch of hoppers I ordered from Dean weeks before I’ve got Picasso from you. I don’t even know what temp they are in. I keep the bin wet but not soggy wet, just enough to feel damp.

This is my set up:

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I will be moving the two middle bins to a separate cage for possible hatching of eggs.

Hopefully, this adventure will be a success.

Let us know if u get babies. So far I'm a failure. Even my Hawk Moth is half out half in its cocoon.

 

[Kx2+cham]

Let us know if u get babies. So far I'm a failure. Even my Hawk Moth is half out half in its cocoon.View attachment 349981

I will report back as soon as I see some babies.

 

[Beman]

I don’t do anything special, I just have a 100W heat bulb in each cage, feed them cricket crack and some greens. The one that keeps on mating and laying eggs are the first batch of hoppers I ordered from Dean weeks before I’ve got Picasso from you. I don’t even know what temp they are in. I keep the bin wet but not soggy wet, just enough to feel damp.

This is my set up:

View attachment 349980

I will be moving the two middle bins to a separate cage for possible hatching of eggs.

Hopefully, this adventure will be a success.

I feel like your special hand opening in the door is genius. So you don't have grasshoppers flying out all over you lol

 

[Kx2+cham]

I feel like your special hand opening in the door is genius. So you don't have grasshoppers flying out all over you lol

Oh yeah that thing save me a headache. I’ve learned about that from @SauceGandhi and contacted his friend who fabricate those.

 

[Andrew1283]

@Camiezone can you give me an approximate hatch date for Bert? I got him 4 months ago so I guess he’s 8 months. I’m looking at him next to an adult Nosey Be and they’re damn near the same size. So this begs the question, How Big Is Homer?!?!

 

[Andrew1283]

Oh yeah that thing save me a headache. I’ve learned about that from @SauceGandhi and contacted his friend who fabricate those.

So you just leave the lay bins in the bottom all the time? Do you ever clean the poops off the top of the sand/soil? My hoppers poop so much and it started to stink when it got wet in their lay bins, like a school urinal.

 

[Andrew1283]

Also I just want to add the expense of hoppers isn’t nearly as bad when you raise them to adults and you’re feeding adult chams. One adult (legless) hopper is easily the mass of 3 large crickets. So one hopper every other day is fine by me. Plus if you feed super worms, silk worms, horn worms and other feeders too you’re not even feeding one hopper per cham every other day. It might be one hopper per cham every 4 days.

BUT if Dean and Kai stopped selling I would be S.O.L.

So I am interested in learning more about breeding, not for cost savings but for a backup plan.

 

[pemmiecan23]

@Camiezone can you give me an approximate hatch date for Bert? I got him 4 months ago so I guess he’s 8 months. I’m looking at him next to an adult Nosey Be and they’re damn near the same size. So this begs the question, How Big Is Homer?!?!

Right?? Herc seems so much bigger than my other male was at 8 months... I guess the dam "Big Girl" really lives up to her name and makes some big boys!!!! Both of your chams are gorgeous btw

 

[Andrew1283]

Right?? Herc seems so much bigger than my other male was at 8 months... I guess the dam "Big Girl" really lives up to her name and makes some big boys!!!! Both of your chams are gorgeous btw

Right, I’m focusing on how big Homer is when their mother is literally named BIG GIRL!!! Lolol

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

So you just leave the lay bins in the bottom all the time? Do you ever clean the poops off the top of the sand/soil? My hoppers poop so much and it started to stink when it got wet in their lay bins, like a school urinal.

I change my lay bins every week but it doesn't matter since they are only poop holders. No eggs at my breeding farm.

 

[Andrew1283]

Yuck yeah my lay bins just stunk like gross urine.

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

Yuck yeah my lay bins just stunk like gross urine.

Mine were growing mildew.

 

[Kx2+cham]

So you just leave the lay bins in the bottom all the time? Do you ever clean the poops off the top of the sand/soil? My hoppers poop so much and it started to stink when it got wet in their lay bins, like a school urinal.

I do leave the bin at the bottom and poop accumulate on top. The only time I do remove them is when I have to transfer to hatching cage (that’s what I did with the first batch of bins). I haven’t smell anything specially after I sprayed water or my nose is not good at smelling foul smells ().

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

I do leave the bin at the bottom and poop accumulate on top. The only time I do remove them is when I have to transfer to hatching cage (that’s what I did with the first batch of bins). I haven’t smell anything specially after I sprayed water or my nose is not good at smelling foul smells ().

I haven't had smells but I was definitely growing penicillin.

 

[Kx2+cham]

I only put

I change my lay bins every week but it doesn't matter since they are only poop holders. No eggs at my breeding farm.

I only put the bins when I saw them mating. Few days after mating I saw some holes on the bins, base on what I have read, some of those holes doesn’t have eggs, it is just a test holes before they lay eggs.

 

[Kx2+cham]

Look at this grasshopper farm.

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

Look at this grasshopper farm.

Ive seen this video. Yeah, I've watched every grasshopper breeding video on the www.

 

[ChamelaChameleon]

Grasshopper mating. He is definitely locked in.

 

[Andrew1283]

How is Herbert 8 months old? Just gulped down a fully grown hornworm in 3 bites. This is his Lion King action shot.

 

[Sherbertsmysunshine]

What a big boy! he's so pretty!!