All those insects can be great for chams. You have to look around, but you can get them from several online suppliers, not your normal pet shop. Carolina Biological Supply (supplies for schools) has quite a few insects you can start colonies from. The mid sized roaches and large cultured houseflies are good feeders too. Pink mice are not all that great. It's not a natural prey for chams, and even if your cham is large enough to eat them they are fatty, calcium deficient if they are hairless, and a huge meal to process. Some keepers of melleri and parsoni have offered their chams nestling birds as they can be a good source of zinc. I know one parsoni keeper whose big male would shoot hummingbirds out of the air if they got in the greenhouse.



There is a great little book written by the old Chameleon Information Network (CIN) called Thoughts for Food that describes how to culture and feed many types of insects. Kammerflage Kreations may sell it. Well worth it!

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