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I've got a bunch of hissers-but my chameleons don't like them. I have SOME orange headed roaches, but my caheleons don't like them. SO, I'm getting more chameleons. hehe. well, the little W.C. chameleons like the little roaches, so I'm sure they'll like the bigger ones too.

I plan on getting at least 20-30 more adult orange headed roaches, as my intial 10 have all passed, and just now are the babies doing their final molt into winged adults(I've kept them kind of cool, so it took a year!)

I have a dozen lobsters, and wow. I cannot believe how prolific. The babies are a god size for a small chameleon too.
BUT, I could not feed them without hand feeding them, for their climbing ability. SO I want to get something that doesn't climb.

BUT I also want a prolific species that produces VERY small babies. I don't care about adult size, but I'd like to hae something that readily produces nymphs small enough for a baby chameleon to eat. I think a hatchling would be streaching it, because I doubt I'll find one that produces pinhead sized babies.

How about orange spot or discoid? And if anyone here has a surplus of adult-or -near-adult sized ones(including orange headed roaches) Email me.

thanks

Eric A

FWIW, I have a new discoid culture and a new Orange Spot culture. The discoids seem to be producing faster and they are a little bigger. I don't know about Orange Heads.

Just curious where you got your orange spots from? I have not seen any for sale exept from roachman. I have both species and have a much better luck with the orange spots. Of the non-climbers the orange spots are the smallest. There are some smaller non-climbers, but I have read that they are very slow breeders. Adult size really shouldn't matter to much. You are going to feed them off well before they reach adults.
James

how small are the baby orange spots?? inch wise, like a 1/16 or 1/8 in ch cricket??
thanks
eric

Swifts inverts also sells them.
I may have spoken to soon as to which colony will be the better producers. The discoids that I got were more established to begin with, in time the OS may surpass them, but right now the discoids are by far the better colony.