family cant stand crickets or locusts

[meganm85]

we breed dubia roaches....i make my b/f get them out tho...lol...i also have a big storage bin to but my crickets in.they really arnt that loud....just put the lid on them..also if its big enough they wont get out.....i buy 1000 at a time online at llreptile.com....it has free shipping and the prices are really good.....

 

[HairyScaryMark]

im in the uk. i asked mom about the roaches n she said no bloody way lol worse then crickets

Ok. you have the same feeder options as me then.

Firstly, cockroaches will freak anyone out, especially in this country where you generally don't come across them. You have this pet already and you need to sort out how you're going to feed it.

Live food is the only feasible option for Chameleons. They focus their eyes on their food before they shoot at it and their eye sight is largely based on movement. Most will eat some plant matter, from live plants in their cage by choice and some will eat fruit and leaf greens if you offer, although I've had little success with this unless I let the cham grab it from my hand while he's eating something else.

Put your feeders in places where they wont be easily seen by your other family members. They will forget they exist and stop being bothered, providing they don't escape.

I've found locusts have been the most successful staple feeder for my chameleon. They are not nearly as good at escaping as crickets also, which my chameleon refuses to eat. I've never tried cockroaches as I've also been forbidden from getting them by other family members

Try and acquire some Indian stick insects. These are the most common type of stick insects and shouldn't be too difficult to get a hold of. They don't have much 'bulk' so you will need a large number of them but my chameleon tends to shoot at all of them within sections of going in his cage. They are meant to be very easy to breed as they are pathogenic (females can lay viable eggs without a male fertilising them) but I always fed them off too quickly to get any offspring.

You could also try some 'healthier' larvi such as butter worms, silk worms and phoenix worms. The latter of which is very small. Moths from Silk or Wax worms are also a decent enough feeder but aren't likely to be a reliable source of food as there is a process involved to get them.

House flies/curly winged flies or blue bottles are another option although likely to be messy and are stocked in a limited number of places.