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Hi I have a couple questions about feeding Jackson's Chameleons.
1. Has anyone ever used the already dead crickets such as the ones sold through zoomed or any other brand and if you have do you dust them or are they pre-loaded with vitamins?

2. I have a friend that has a couple of vields and he feeds them fruit as a supplement once in a while can this be used for Jackson's? If so what types of fruits?

Thank you for your help
I'm just trying to find alternative food sources since I only have one Chameleon and it would be senseless to raise crickets for one lizard and going to the pet shop gets old after a while.

Do9 NOT waste your money on the dead crix. As for the supplementation: All chams, but especially jax seem to be very sensitive to over-supplementation. I concentrate on gut loading my prey with a top of the line gut load such as the James/Wells/Lopez recipe in the insect section of www.adcham.com or the stuff sold be Sue Donaghue at www.herpnutrition.com I only supplement once/month and then only VERY lightly. I don't coat the crix like a shake&bake chicken!

For additional prey items you can order superworms, waxworms, stick bugs (if you can find them) and all sorts of "field plankton" that you can collect once the weather warms up. You can also bu or make a moth trap. And then there are pill bugs, slogs, land snails, etc. See http://animalark.eapps.com/animal/CIN/Catalog.nsf/$$ViewCat?OpenForm&Expand=6
for Ardi Abate's book "Thoughts for Food."
Ed
Ed