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can you feed house flies as a meal? or should they only be included as snacks?

dennis

I need an answer too. I've caught a few and put it in the cage and before I knew it my baby ate them both. She loves them.

my 4 yr old jacksons died because he ate house fliess.

if u want to cotinue the tradition of my cham continue

you dont want to know what disgusting and terrible disease non-captive bred houseflies possess.

i recommend cricketranch.com they have captive bred houseflies for sale...

Yes, I agree, you are much better off buying and raising flies. B/c of what flies feed on they are often heavily infested with pasrasites. Personally I would not opt to use them at all.

Here is a site for purchase. Also, there have been other threads on this subject so you can do a search.

Hope this has helped,
lele
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 green anoles (Jaida, no name)
0.1 brown anole - Jamaica
0.2 house geckos - (still no names)

np

i bought a culture this past weekend from the kammers. i have on occasion fed one or 2 "wild" flies. nothing i would consider a meal, more just a light snack. but now that i have a million flies in this container in the frig i'd like to substitute a "cricket day" for something, different...like this house flies or the waxworms i have. if they cannot by themselves be a meal can i 50/50 a day with crickets and flies? varity is suppose to be best for feeding chameleons, so now that i havea varity i like to do what's best.

dennis

I think they would be fine for an occasional meal (maybe even frequently) so long as they are gutloaded, and, like crix they will eat many things. Boy, you sure got a thread going! LOL!

lele

>>i bought a culture this past weekend from the kammers. i have on occasion fed one or 2 "wild" flies. nothing i would consider a meal, more just a light snack. but now that i have a million flies in this container in the frig i'd like to substitute a "cricket day" for something, different...like this house flies or the waxworms i have. if they cannot by themselves be a meal can i 50/50 a day with crickets and flies? varity is suppose to be best for feeding chameleons, so now that i havea varity i like to do what's best.
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>>dennis
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 green anoles (Jaida, no name)
0.1 brown anole - Jamaica
0.2 house geckos - (still no names)

Many chams love houseflies. I culture them myself (get pupae or larvae from Grubco...their flies are larger than some), gutload them and release a dozen or so in the cage most days. To keep them gutloaded until the cham gets them I put more gutload or ripe fruit in the cage. My fischeri go crazy for them!