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what else can i feed my grandis besides crickets,wax worms, meal worms, and fruit could i mabye feed him grasshoppers? and where would i get the grasshoppers

What you are feeding it is fine. Grasshoppers are not very nutritionally valuable. Roaches, butterworms, silkworms, "super worms," and "giant meal worms." Super worms, Giant meal worms, and meal worms are all different species [of beetle].

All my day geckos absolutely adore locusts (small ones!). The main food is crickets but i tend to feed them one locust each feeding time. You can feed them up just like crickets, but they tend to only eat lettuce and leaves (in my experience)

hope this helps, i dont know where you can get them in america.

julie

For some real entertainment, put some flies or small moths in the phelsuma's cage. Mine go nuts.

Julie,

What exactly are you calling a "locust?" Are you in the United States and catching these things? I have heard the term "locust" used to describe a number of different insects including cicadas, grasshoppers, and katydids. If you are unsure, maybe you could post a picture so we know what you are talking about. I'd like to try some new things as well, but I never want to be the first one to experiment with my animals.

Thanks,
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Zoodude

"Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't after me."

I don't know how big your Grandis is, but I used to have a BIG boy. I think he was somewhere around 11-11.5 inches in length. Absolutely the biggest Grandis I've ever seen. Anyway he loved crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, moths, and mealworms. The most interesting thing I saw him eat was an anole. I stuck a 3-4" anole in there one day and he went CRAZY. He chased it down, grabbed it, and banged it against the glass until it quit moving, then down it went. I was in shock that he would instantly recognize another lizard as prey. This is the same grandis that I had a female in with, and later housed another male with him AND the female for a short while, and he never attacked either one. He would also lick baby food from my finger, and start "barking" at me when I took it away. Pretty cool grandis, although I wouldn't recommend feeding anole unless they are pretty small, or yours is pretty big...they can bite back a little.