What to do with dead crickets? A solution!

[ChamAllen]

All my chams eat both crickets and worms.

I fill a bowl with potting soil (no pesticides), but a thousand super worms, put the worms in the potting soil and as crickets die put them also in the potting soil.

Worms and beetle larva eat bacteria, algae and fungus. This is the perfect diet for them and ends the problem of what to do with your dead crickets.

Result? The worms live longer and I think they're bigger and more nutritional.

Your thoughts?

 

[ChamAllen]

This is a great solution!

 

[sandrachameleon]

yes, its not uncommon to feed dead crickets (that die from old age, not health issues/poisoning/etc) to roaches, mealworms, TI, or supers

 

[ChamAllen]

OK. I thought it was original. All these years I've been scooping them up in a dustpan and throwing them out.

Thanks.

 

[sandrachameleon]

Doesn't make it a bad idea just because someone else thought of it too.
and its worth sharing
- I didn't mean to come off negative in my first post - rather wanted to be supportive of the idea -

curious why you have enough crickets to warrant a dust pan!? you must have a lot of crickets?

 

[ChamAllen]

Thanks.

Want to see the biggest, healthiest sweetest Meller's on the planet?

See attached.

 

[sandrachameleon]

Nice!

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[ChamAllen]

My Ziggy looks just like the cham in your profile pic.

What's your little man's name?

 

[sandrachameleon]

Ya I can see similarities
Mine is named Cedric. He is a NoseBe x Amblilobe cross local

 

[sandrachameleon]

Do you put any bran or vegetables in with your supers?

 

[bigbrown]

I just feed them to my chamm.is that bad

 

[ChamAllen]

Nope. Offered all sort of veggies and fruits many times and never had any nibbles.

 

[Deevo]

Hmm good idea. I'm going to try feeding the old crickets to my roaches and supers.

 

[ridgebax1]

Well I know the roaches will probably think their getting filet mignon or something! My current colony had been badly neglected for months no food or water. My son had them for a beardie and thought they were all dead so did not pay attention to them. When he went to empty the bin lo and behold there were still live roaches in there who apparently had no problems cannibalizing their dead relatives. They are thriving now with tons of babies! Truly amazing creatures... creepy but amazing!

 

[chamgirl88]

That is a great Idea I am new to the forum and being a Cham owner

 

[sandrachameleon]

I just feed them to my chamm.is that bad

Do you mean you feed dead crickets to your chameleon?
or do you mean you just feed superworms directly to chameleons without gutloading them first?

the answer to both, IMHO, is yes that is bad

 

[sandrachameleon]

Nope. Offered all sort of veggies and fruits many times and never had any nibbles.

Wow. That's the opposite of my experience. Mine eat all sorts of stuff!

 

[ChamAllen]

No, no , no. I feed dead crickets to the superworms along with their gutload stuff.