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[unixmiah]

Hi,


it gets annoying to go to petsmart or order Crickets and sometimes get special treats for my Veiled Chameleon.

I saw people talking about growing/breeding their own crickets, fruit flies, hornwarms and superworms. Can someone please send me a link or a link to a youtube video - full step by step (not scattered) instructions? Its better I think.

Also, my Veiled Chamemelon loved when I presented superworms to him the first 2 days and now he just looks at them- same goes for wax worms, I put it in a cup, he barely touched it.

He loved the cricket, anytime I present them, he eats them all the time.

Do some Chameleons don't eat that much worms? Can someone suggest how to get him to eat something else.

Also how do I show him how to eat Veggies? like spinish, I've never seen him eating any leaves. He drinks the water from the leaf I spray and also from the Chameleon Cantina Fountain

 

[chamsarecool]

Crickets are easy to breed but you need to keep the eggs and young crickets warm in order to have good results. There isn't much to do, you need a container with a couple of inches of moist eco earth for the eggs, a dimmer (they are like 10$ at lowes.. they are kind of hard to find in the store so you may have to ask a couple of people), and a heat pad or piece of heat tape, and a couple of storage boxes. I put clear packing tape around the inside of the storage boxes to make a slick layer hard for crickets to climb and use aquirium silicone to fix ventilation to the lid of the box (aluminum screen). Use a temp gun (TG1 works well) and get the heat tape in the upper 90s. Set the young crickets and egg tub on the heat tape. Once the crickets are a couple of weeks old you can transfer them to another storage box they mainly need the heat to get started growing and for the eggs to hatch fast.