Need to breed?

[espada001]

Hello everybody.

I would like to get a chameleon sometime in the semi-near future so I started doing my research. I'll be fresh out of college when I get one and likely living in not huge apartments.

From what I've been reading it sounds like a lot of people breed their own feeder or get large amounts at once?

Is this really necessary in order to control the feeder nutrition or just more convenient and maybe cost effective?

With a lack of space to keep large amounts of feeder at a time, I'm wondering if it still would work for the cham to get smaller amounts of feed at a time (i.e...can you still gutload well and everything?)

thanks

 

[kinyonga]

You can buy the insects a few days before you need them and gutload/feed them a nutritious diet before feeding them to the chameleon.

 

[amanda509]

i would invest in dubia if you were to breed and have one tote's worth of space to spare. thats all they need to take up, and they breed on their own once the colony is established. and if you are seriously considering breeding, do lots of research and talk to many people on here about it. captive breeding helps the wild numbers greatly, and can prevent someone from buying a wc chameleon.

 

[camimom]

We breed feeders because its normally more cost effective, and for people who have multiple chameleons at various ages, a constant breeding supply allows them to pick and choose the size of the feeeder to match a particular chameleons needs.
NTM when chams are younger, they eat alot, and breeding can help save money, so yolu dont feel lke you are buying bugs every other day.

 

[Sticktongue]

You can easily fit 1000 crickets into a tote you get form wal-mart. I keep mine in a rough estimate... 24inch by 16 inch? I order 1000 (per chameleon) and it last me most of the month. Shipping is about 30 bucks plus about 13 for each thousand of crickets. Sounds like a lot, but if you get them from a pet store, they are about 10 cents EACH which is about 9 times more expensive than ordering them.

 

[coldbloodedAL]

Not neccesary, but sure is cost effective even if you only have one cham.