Fearaffect
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Any1 know where I can get them as feeders??
Grasshoppers??
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Lizardlover
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nowhere in the US!
Todnedo
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Any grassy field near you, I have been breeding them for the last couple months and it seems like an easy feeder to breed .
They eat anything green and live for months. I started out with about 2 dozen and now have 2-3 hundred and counting. The best part is their cage smells like grass.
They eat anything green and live for months. I started out with about 2 dozen and now have 2-3 hundred and counting. The best part is their cage smells like grass.
Lizardlover
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awesome, too bad their illegal to ship 
Fearaffect
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Yea, I'm smack dab in the middle of concrete jungle......kinda hard to find any in abundance...last 2 weeks I've found 2 and the Cham I fed them to went nuts for them.......
chambabysitter1
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I find them here in Long Beach all the time. Try your backyard garden, or any nature center. You are bound to find some, not in huge abundance, but I see at least 1 or 2 every few days while outside misting Chameleo.
Lizardlover
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in FL i only see them once in a blue moon and they fly away on sight.
Fearaffect
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Yea, thats the problem, catchen them......I caught the 2 by sprayin them down hard with the hose.
Fearaffect
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LOL Grasshoppa.....
ColorCham427
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Be careful of these ones Brye, They can kick the crap out of your chameleon!
reincarnation!!!!!!!!!
Steven,
Could you show some pics? are you using normal soil or sand for egg laying? Is it an outdoor or indoor cage, what temps are you running?
Nick
Metric
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Steven,
Could you show some pics? are you using normal soil or sand for egg laying? Is it an outdoor or indoor cage, what temps are you running?
Nick
I can't seem to find a good care sheet, or enclosure guide. Pics would be amazing.
summoner12
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I would love to learn how to grow these guys.
Kecleon
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Here you go buddy hope this will help,posted this awhile ago.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/grasshopper-rearing-15024/
Kecleon
Todnedo
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I have green stripe grasshoppers that I caught in April.
The adults over wintered in the soil and emerged in April to breed. I keep them in a screen cage with a 40w heat lamp on top. They are feed lawn grass, dandelion, collard greens, kale, red lettus, wheat germ and oats. They lay eggs in a small 2" deep pan of vermiculite. The eggs take about 40 days to hatch and are about 1/8 inch long.
I am not selling these because it is illegal to sell native wildlife in Ohio Plus I have 70 chams to feed
The adults over wintered in the soil and emerged in April to breed. I keep them in a screen cage with a 40w heat lamp on top. They are feed lawn grass, dandelion, collard greens, kale, red lettus, wheat germ and oats. They lay eggs in a small 2" deep pan of vermiculite. The eggs take about 40 days to hatch and are about 1/8 inch long.
I am not selling these because it is illegal to sell native wildlife in Ohio Plus I have 70 chams to feed
Metric
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Oh my. Excellent info!!! very appreciated. Now i just need to find some of those damn grasshoppers. I used to see TONS of them when i was kid. I have a couple questions though;
1. What should i look for when Im looking for them in the wild (certain plants they like ect.
2. How can i sex them?
3. Do they shed/grow quickly?
4. Can they replace crickets as a staple feeder?
thanks again for the enclosure guide~~
Kecleon
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-1. Here in Curacao where i live you could see allot on a plain field like a baseball field,soccor field but the fields that we have here are like a sandlot with a bunch of grass on it(Dry and normal)
-2.
-3. Didn't had that much exp. with them
-4. Could do that cause(I stille don't have a cham) but if you see them on youtube those hoppers make them crazy and it's amazing to watch them hunt those hoppers,that's why i'm going to look for some to.
Hope that will help.
Kecleon
