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I have a 4 year old male veiled cham, and am moving to an apartment in D.C. My landlord is wary of my having live crickets in the apartment, and that makes sense, since there's always a chance of them escaping.

So, are there any non-cricket diets for chams? A variety of worms or such?

Hello, althought I donot have a veiled.(i'm a jackson man) you can feed silkworms and lobster roaches.my cham gets sick of crickets and he never turns down a roach. they are easy to keep with no smell and loud churping. they are glass climbers, which is easily solved with a layer of vaseline around the entire top edge of the enclosure or a product called bug stop. you can also try superworms only once in a while. roaches and silkies are a great alternitive. good luck matt

I've kept Madagascar hissers before, so I'm knowledgable in the keeping of glass climbers...I'm just wondering how my landlord would respond to "Yeah, no crickets, just some roaches." Landlords do everything in their power (the good ones at least) to keep roaches out.

Don't keep the crickets for long periods of time. Buy small amounts and keep them if a large Tall plastic pail with some bug boundary. Bring your landlord over and show her that you only have a small crickets at a time.

If you are to feed only works, you will need to do more supplimenting and have more vaiety of worms than normal I think.

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Any loose crickets will die. They can't breed and become a pest in your apartment.
Plus they die in about 8 weeks if they get loose.
If not try silkworms, butterworms, hornworms and some superworms but only as treats.

Try keeping non-climbing exotic roaches such as discoids or orange head roaches. They don't require any messy vaseline barrier, and will not establish themselves if some should escape.
Another trick is not to refer to them as ROACHES. Call them beetles!
Lessee... other items to try besides discoids and orange head roaches:
silkworms
superworms
mealworms
houseflies (try skipio's)

>>I've kept Madagascar hissers before, so I'm knowledgable in the keeping of glass climbers...I'm just wondering how my landlord would respond to "Yeah, no crickets, just some roaches." Landlords do everything in their power (the good ones at least) to keep roaches out.
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