pwerfulyifu
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will mosquitoes bite my cham when i have him in his outdoor enclosure? if so what are the risks?
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They may. They bite my tortoises. No risks that I'm aware of though.
pwerfulyifu
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will the bites be visible or itchy for them? like how it is for us? haha
Not if my torts are any indication. They dont mind at all and in the summer the mosquitos swarm on them sometimes. I've never seen them bite the iguana though...maybe lizards aren't as tasty as turtles. 
Cainschams
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You know? This is one thing that gets my brain churning about Vit A. They say chams are insectivores and you get the whole pre/pro formed vit A debates but. If mosquitoes suck blood then is that not a form of preformed vit A that they get in the wild? Along with other bugs like that I think of flies. Flies lay in rotting meat. If a fly lays then gets eaten does it have some preformed Vit A on them or in their system? If they do this would mean just because they are insectivores doesnt mean they arent getting preformed Vit A froum bug sources.
Yeah but chams don't eat mosquitos... I'm sure they do get some vitamin A from the bugs they eat but who's to say that's what they are using? I bet they get some proformed too from what the bugs were eating. (I'm not chosing a side of the vitA debate - still undecided). I think it's too ambiguous to assume anything based on some bugs getting vitA (how much is really in blood anyway?) on that alone without looking at the rest of their dietary intake. Just my two cents.
Okay babies might, but adults? Most species are very small and adults don't have any interest in fruitflies...
Okay fine. A mosquito could probably carry off a B. minima!
A mosquito could probably carry off a B. minima!
Some of the mosquitoes in my neighborhood are so big they have landing gear! I have to make sure they don't carry off one of my cats
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