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I am looking for new feeders for my veiled chameleons. I am looking for something that is healthy for the chams, easy to take care of, will reproduce fast, and grow to adulthood quick. I currently have silkworms, crickets, and dubia. If you have any ideas please let me know. Thank you.
 
Have you tried meal worms? I am breeding them right now but I just started so I can't really tell you if its going well or not. I do have 25 or so meal worm beetles already after only 1.5 weeks. Also I have thought about breeding wax worms and from what I have read it doesn't seem to difficult.
 
I have superworms as well (forgot to add that) I might also be getting waxworms soon but am looking for something else that I can feed more than a few times a week. I am trying to breed my superworms right now as well. I have like 15 beetles. They are dieing out one by one slowly. Any other Ideas?
 
not interested in the cockroaches but what about lobster roachers? Does anyone raise these. Is it a fast lifecycle. Any other ideas?
 
Lobster roaches breed EXTREMELY fast with absolutely no effort on your part. They are easy to gutload and have a great meat to shell ratio.

Having said that.. they suck as feeders :) They are super fast.. you can't catch them.. they can climb glass, plastic, anything.. you name it.. they can climb it and fast. They will burrow into your live plant pots and breed in the dirt in your chameleon's cages and the nymphs are often small enough to fit through screened cages gaps.

Despite all of this.. I keep lobsters. I have a colony of about 3000. I feed them one at a time with tongs. They are a good feeder if you are very very careful. I just thought a good warning was in order :)
 
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Does anyone have a list of all possible feeder insects for chameleon?
If anyone had that list, I'm afraid it would probably be a little large to post on these forums...
"Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species"(Wikipedia)

So even if only 5% of all insects were edible to chameleons, you'd still be looking at a list of about 50000 insects...

However, I think what you are trying to ask for is a list of insects that are relatively easy to obtain, and practical to keep and breed.
You should start with a great book that is sold in the book store on this site: "Thoughts for Food" - edited by Ardith Abate

What about any other roaches. Any other good ones that are simple?
Dubias (Blaptica dubia - Orange spotted roach) are the best roach feeders. They're slow-moving, can't climb plastic/glass, don't fly. Their life-cycle is a bit longer than some roaches, and so they propogate a bit slower, but they seem relatively hardy (as most roaches are, I guess). They also have a reasonably good meat-to-shell ratio. And they seem to be readily available in the States.

Any other unique feeders?
Katydids. I can't tell you how to breed or keep them, and I don't even know how I would gutload them properly (just fresh grasses, I guess - similar to grasshoppers). But they are bright, and green, and jump around a lot: chams go crazy over them. They are also not bred/sold anywhere that I know of; you'll have to catch them in the wild.
But there you have it... a unique feeder.
 
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