Here is a question???

[leoman]

How do yuo feed your crickets to your chams? I have to ise a feeding cup but they jump out of it when im holding it.

Any alternatives....?

 

[dodolah]

How do yuo feed your crickets to your chams? I have to ise a feeding cup but they jump out of it when im holding it.

Any alternatives....?

i just throw them in the cage and let my cham hunts by himself

 

[leoman]

BUt....

I cant do that my vivarium is full of holes i made

 

[Dan]

Well you need to patch up all thoes wholes, or just stick with the feeding up. OR start doing ALOT of hand feeding.

 

[SuperRad]

When you cup feed attach it to the side of of the screen. you can keep the lid on and cut a hole out so your crickets can't climb out. go to http://www.keepingchameleons.com/diy.html and click on deli cup feeding.

 

[leoman]

thanks

but how do you place the cricket inside the feeding cup with it not jumping away

 

[dodolah]

I use the black tube from cricket keeper to let them crawl inside.
Put them in a clear plastic bag.
and pour the cricket to a tall cup.
Not once I need to touch the crickets with my hand.

crickets cannot jump vertically straight.
They can only jump diagonally.

 

[Chase]

I use the black tube from cricket keeper to let them crawl inside.
Put them in a clear plastic bag.
and pour the cricket to a tall cup.
Not once I need to touch the crickets with my hand.

crickets cannot jump vertically straight.
They can only jump diagonally.

I just throw them in.

 

[Zoey]

First I go and buy like 80 Crickets... then I dust them with the Vitamins and what not. . . Then I dump half of them in with my female and the rest in with my male. They eat them over the next week or two until I buy more. They get to hunt for themselves, I think they prefer it.

 

[Julirs]

First I go and buy like 80 Crickets... then I dust them with the Vitamins and what not. . . Then I dump half of them in with my female and the rest in with my male. They eat them over the next week or two until I buy more. They get to hunt for themselves, I think they prefer it.

You dump them all in-so there are 40 crickets running around? Of course they lose all of their gutload in 24 hours and all of their calcium, not to mention you run the risk of having them nibble on your chamelons. And of course your crickets are eating cham poop and then your chams are eating the crickets...Wow-that is just wrong.

 

[Vegas Chad]

First I go and buy like 80 Crickets... then I dust them with the Vitamins and what not. . . Then I dump half of them in with my female and the rest in with my male. They eat them over the next week or two until I buy more. They get to hunt for themselves, I think they prefer it.

Yea Zoey
I’m going to have to agree with my buddy Julirs here… Dumping 40 a time in the cage is exactly the way you should NOT feed your chameleon.
Crickets have a super fast metabolism; anything you might have fed them will be gone in 24 hours and show up as cricket poop all over the cage. You are not able to accurately give your chameleon its vitamins because who knows what dust will be on them after X amount of days.
I am usually lax on my keeping advice because what works for my might not work for you and what you do might not work for Julirs. However that method is defiantly not the way to go! Your chams are probably OK but I can say with a large amount of certainty that they are not in optimal health if this is your normal feeding routine.
The cheapest way and dare I say the *best way to do it is to buy your crix in bulk. Make sure they are clean. Feed them healthy food. And dust them properly daily according to a schedule that you create.

 

[Zoey]

Its how I was told to do it, so thats how it happens.

The poop in the cage gets cleaned out daily and their cages are cleaned every month to get rid of anything thats not supposed to be there.

Its how I do it, simple.

 

[Julirs]

It sounds like you intend to breed your female in the future, and I read where you are worried about egg binding. In order to help assure this will not happen, you need to get your calcium supplementing as well as your UVB lighting down to a fine science.

 

[Chase]

It sounds like you intend to breed your female in the future, and I read where you are worried about egg binding. In order to help assure this will not happen, you need to get your calcium supplementing as well as your UVB lighting down to a fine science.

Also, if you keep that many, take a baby carrot and a tooth pick and have the carrot inside the cage and the toothpick in it so it holds it up, then they will eat that instead. Then they are always eating and wont loose any Nutritional Value.

 

[Justin Carl]

not to mention the dust on the crickets comes off. when i put mine inside and they dont eat them by the next day they dont have any dust on them.

 

[Zoey]

Its up to the BF its his Cham. It really don't overly concern me. I do what he tells me to on caring for them. We are trying to set up better cages with better supplies for them this year. We don't have alot of money or time so we do what we can.
And to be honest it seems to work pretty damn well lol

 

[Justin Carl]

you know crickets can bite and will bite your chameleon. it happens when they are sleeping.

 

[Zoey]

not to mention the dust on the crickets comes off. when i put mine inside and they dont eat them by the next day they dont have any dust on them.

we put vitamins in her water so i'm not concerned about it.

 

[Chase]

Its up to the BF its his Cham. It really don't overly concern me. I do what he tells me to on caring for them. We are trying to set up better cages with better supplies for them this year. We don't have alot of money or time so we do what we can.
And to be honest it seems to work pretty damn well lol

Lol, thats true.

 

[Justin Carl]

so you have vitamin residue all over your plants? huh...that sounds like a waste of money to me. i know when i was giving my male his liquid vitamins i would mix it a small cup and a Hour later it would all settle to the bottom.