pillbugs popular?

My chameleons absolutely love them! They do contain metals that are not safe from things they eat on the wild, it wouldn't be wise to feed more than a few wild ones in your chameleons lifetime, it would however be totally fine if you get a colony going and breed for next generation, then they are rid of the toxins. Chameleons love them! :)
 
Chameleons truly love terrestrial isopods / wood sow / pill bug / rollie pollie / wood louse

There are several suppliers, but they are not as popularly marketed to larger lizards as they seem to be for fish and frogs and pyg size animals. Natural of course, since TI are small.

You could offer your chameleon one or two of Those in your yard, to see if it likes them. Maybe a dozen if you live in a very rural area. But after that you'll want to collect a bunch and breed your own. As was already noted, terrestrial isopods are heavy metal bioacumulators. wild ones can also carry parasites

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-isopods-pillbugs-wood-sow-rollie-pollie.html
 
a few years back when i was around 7-9 i think i went to my grandmas house and she had them ALL over i played with them ALOT and i ended up getting warts or bumps all over my body the doc froze them off with liquid nitrogen man i was in such pain when he put that crap on me:eek:
 
sandrachameleon said:
Chameleons truly love terrestrial isopods / wood sow / pill bug / rollie pollie / wood louse

There are several suppliers, but they are not as popularly marketed to larger lizards as they seem to be for fish and frogs and pyg size animals. Natural of course, since TI are small.

You could offer your chameleon one or two of Those in your yard, to see if it likes them. Maybe a dozen if you live in a very rural area. But after that you'll want to collect a bunch and breed your own. As was already noted, terrestrial isopods are heavy metal bioacumulators. wild ones can also carry parasites

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-isopods-pillbugs-wood-sow-rollie-pollie.html
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I have a question if you start a CB generation would they not have these metals.
 
ya i just went in my front yard and lifted up one stone and there were a bunch of the little ones running all over:p
 
Along with my Chameleon hobby I do deal with poison dart frogs...pill bugs (isopods) are quite popular to culture as a food source...I have just begun to raise two types...giant orange and a dwarf type...the frogs love them...but I had never tried feeding them to chameleons...
 
it looks like i got pill bugs and dwarfs not sure yet ill do my research though :)
and i think im going to try and start 2 generation cultures and if
all goes well i think ill problaly sell them:D
 
ok i see some of them that are a sky blue sort of a neonish blue but.....its more like a faint color of purple and there are also the regular black rollie pollies ill set it all up tomarro
 
perry123 said:
I have a question if you start a CB generation would they not have these metals.
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No. Not if you clear out the dead originals or move the initial young to a fresh container.

What happens is that isopods have a remarkable way of dealing with toxins. They are small, so it wouldnt take much to kill them, except that they are able to "wall off" the bad stuff within themselves. And they typically dont run out of room because they have such short lives. They dont create the toxins, they ingest them from the stuff they eat. So if you keep the young ones in organic soil/sand and feed them good food, they will not encounter toxin/mentals and therefore not hold them to pass along to the chameleon.

Even if you left the original isopods in the original container and didnt remove the dead, the only metals in there would be that which came from the originals. There wouldnt be a constant accumulation, as there can be from the wild (because people have really wrecked the environment)
 
sandrachameleon said:
No. Not if you clear out the dead originals or move the initial young to a fresh container.

What happens is that isopods have a remarkable way of dealing with toxins. They are small, so it wouldnt take much to kill them, except that they are able to "wall off" the bad stuff within themselves. And they typically dont run out of room because they have such short lives. They dont create the toxins, they ingest them from the stuff they eat. So if you keep the young ones in organic soil/sand and feed them good food, they will not encounter toxin/mentals and therefore not hold them to pass along to the chameleon.

Even if you left the original isopods in the original container and didnt remove the dead, the only metals in there would be that which came from the originals. There wouldnt be a constant accumulation, as there can be from the wild (because people have really wrecked the environment)
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but wouldnt that be really REALLY hard to seperate them by knowing which is 2gn and which is the 1gn and taking the dead by having to search through all the soil
 
chameleoman said:
but wouldnt that be really REALLY hard to seperate them by knowing which is 2gn and which is the 1gn and taking the dead by having to search through all the soil
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no, its not difficult.

besides, like I said, Even if you left the original isopods in the original container and didnt remove the dead, the only metals in there would be that which came from the originals. There wouldnt be a constant accumulation, as there can be from the wild
 
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