Please help...

[BabyChamCham]

I have a large bin I keep my crickets in and EVERY TIME fruit flies get in and lay eggs in the crickets infecting them, causing all of them to die... I'm really scared to feed these to my chameleon. Any way I can keep them out???

 

[KapitalJ]

Maybe cut back on how much food you are putting in there??

 

[Decadancin]

Are they definitely fruit flies?

 

[BabyChamCham]

Are they definitely fruit flies?

Well actually I'm not totally sure... the look just like them but I don't know

 

[BabyChamCham]

And even when I don't put any food in there, like 15 of them come in.

 

[KapitalJ]

Are you breeding the crickets? If you have a wet container of soil in there they could be Fungas gnats.

 

[Decadancin]

Could also be phorid flies. Likely there because crickets stink! Try to clean the container often and don't leave too much food in there. It may help.

 

[BabyChamCham]

There's no moist container and I Just cleaned it yesterday and got new crickets. Could I try dubai roaches instead? Are they more filling for the chamleon?

 

[Decadancin]

They definitely smell less from what I hear. I can't use them here in Florida. I would advise having a few different types of feeders that are gutloaded well. I only have one chameleon so it makes it tricky to keep feeders clean and alive long enough for him to eat all of them. I use crickets, superworms, silk worms and hornworms as the staple feeders for my chameleon.

 

[Andrew b]

I have a large bin I keep my crickets in and EVERY TIME fruit flies get in and lay eggs in the crickets infecting them, causing all of them to die... I'm really scared to feed these to my chameleon. Any way I can keep them out???

Buy less crickets don't have to much cricket food and drink in the box with them. Make sure there's room in the box fro them to crawl around I use old egg cartons cut them in half and put them in with the crickets

 

[julie dixson]

hello what andrew b said is true used to have same problem , what size container are you using , i use th ex large clear storage boxes that you can get at walmart and cotton balls for water new ones every day put food in 2 - 3 baby jar lids clean them often i clean every hour on the hour my lizards are like 2nd set of kids so there feed just as well as my kids are and so are there food supply.