Dusting & Nutrition Help !

[Dankmeleon]

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give on this one.

I've revisited this topic countless times and even though it seems fairly simple, I have never been able to feel fully comfortable being my chameleons sole provider of nutrition.

I have always winged the gutloading thing/dusting thing, throwing salad scraps into my cricket tub and shaking my crix in a mix of multivitamin and calcium(i'm not sure which has it but it has d3 so you know please point that out if its incorrect to be using d3 on chams that get a lot of natural sunlight and may be producing this naturally???? i'm kinda lost). I need to increase my knowledge at this point so I am not making mistakes into the future.

thanks for bearing with me, these questions aren't as long as they look i promise

question 1. I have panthers (most important), veiled, and jackson's chams, I have heard it is best to gutload crickets with just about any greens...anything else that would be a good concrete nutritonal base? Is there anything I should avoid? I use carrots a lot because they are easy but I think i recall hearing that shouldn't be the base of your cricket diet, and if so I need to change this practice, thanks if you can point that out to me!



My chams are generally housed outdoors during the nice parts of the day and will be more and more as the weather gets better

in the summer it gets too hot for them outside at about noon and they come indoors.

I have heard that indoor chams and outdoor chams require different dustings(something about d3)

anyways

can someone give me a solid answer to the types of dusts they use, how often, etc

I have calcium and multivitamin I believe, I saw "mineral" at the pet shop the other day, is this something I need?


thank you so much in advance for your help

 

[Dankmeleon]

okay so far I've done some more research and found this, hopefully someone can confirm this


and luckily I havn't done much harm.

You are only suppose to be dusting with multivitamin and mineral a few times a month, while on the other hand dusting regularly with calcium to keep the ratio up on your feeders.

My chams will then be given the one with d3 occasionally indoors, and when mostly housed outdoors, occasionally dusted with the one without d3 as they will have access to bright and shiney fl outdoor uvb and humidity, yayyy



I feel like I'm pretty good on this issue, just would appreciate some feedback

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Yeah.

Have you considered using any of the pre-prepared gut loads?
A lot more nutrition and it's all done for you!

http://www.cricketfood.com/

http://www.progeckos.com/gutload.htm

And of course:http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/

Where my schedule is mapped out in the supplements article

-Brad

 

[Dankmeleon]

i was using them until I started having really bad problems with those tiny lil beetle like bugs that love to eat pasta, forget what they are call, starts with a b I believe

anyways i know they sell have some other sources i purchased mine online months back from a link I found on another forum, so maybe i will try one of those reputable companies, thank you.