DYING CRICKETS
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NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
meh... variety is best. locusts are good, dubias, bsf/l, silkworms.
NashansCamos
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Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Wait... so... you have crickets that you don't feed, and don't feed to your chameleon? R..i..g..h..t. ?
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
what? what do you mean?
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
You're messin' wif me, aren't you?
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
no, i genuinely don't know what youre talking aboutYou're messin' wif me, aren't you?
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
klyde pls explain lol
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Nevermind. Going back to reconstruct, I see I misconstrued your statement, "perfect example why i don't feed them!" to mean you didn't feed the crickets, rather than you don't feed crickets to your cham.
Mea culpa.
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
basically when I said that I meant "perfect example why i don't feed crickets to my chams" in response to nightanoles post of thay fart themselves ect ect
NashansCamos
Chameleon Enthusiast
no no I don't have crickets lol. I don't feed them to my chams. I never have.
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Yeah. I got that.
Just one of those little internet misunderstandings that topple civilizations and start intergalactic wars...
Just one of those little internet misunderstandings that topple civilizations and start intergalactic wars...
chamnub
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This is a common problem, and it's why I mostly feed dubias and and supplement with a rotation of superworms, hornworms, and waxworms. When I feed crickets I just buy them cuz I don't have a lot of herps. You can cut down on cricket casualties by making sure it is not too humid and I've read that some keepers use vermiculite as a substrate to breed crickets which helps neutralize their smell and seems to help give the waste somewhere to go. I have NOT tried this, I read about it. I don't mind the cricket noise but when you combine that with the smell and their delicate constitution I don't want to bother...dubias are just better nutritionally anyway.
DocZ
Chameleon Enthusiast
Maybe I have the best source for banded crickets ever, but I rarely have losses. I was out of town for 6 days this week. I fed the crickets and roaches before I left, and had one cricket casualty while I was gone (and he became hermit crab food)
I feed my gut load foods to my crickets daily and keep them in a plastic cricket bin. I don’t have hundreds so that certainly cuts down on the stink, and possibly the losses
I feed my gut load foods to my crickets daily and keep them in a plastic cricket bin. I don’t have hundreds so that certainly cuts down on the stink, and possibly the losses
jamest0o0
Chameleon Enthusiast
Anytime I've gotten from ghanns they've been like this. I had banded crickets from them for what seemed like a month or longer. They never seem to smell either.
MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
What is your secret to your crickets not stinking? I get from Ghann’s and keep in a massive plastic tote with vermiculite, but after a week they reek. They live a good long time until they meet the beardie but their stink makes me want to ?
jamest0o0
Chameleon Enthusiast
I had ventilation on the sides and top and didn't use vermiculite, just barebottom with paper towel rolls. They never smelled, at all.
