My cham not eating enough

I have a 2.5 month old Chameleon that I bought 2 weeks ago, and Ive been feeding him small crickets, but seems to me not very small, lol. ANyways, I just wanted to make sure that it was okay that he isnt eating much, he eats about 2-3 crickets a day, I know its not much but just wanted to make sure its ok. ANy suggestions on getting him to eat more? Everything else seems totally okay with his health and I gut load and powder the crickets too. Maybe I need to put more crickets in his cage? I put like 8-9 in there in the morning and he doesnt eat them all.

Some chameleons eat more than others but as long as it is eating and drinking that’s the best thing. Is he drinking a lot, is the humidity staying up, and are the crickets correctly sized? 2-3 larger crickets can equal 5-6 smaller crickets. Hope that helps…

if he is 2 1/2 month old the crickets need to be SMALL. He should be eating anywhere from 15-20 a day of like 1/4 inch crickets.

Too early for smart ass comments hahaha

Ok so the small crickets are definitely not that small most of them are like 1/2 inch bc the place I went to said those were small or smallest they had... I have a dripper for him and I mist his cage at least 3 times a day and the humidity fluctuates btw 50 to 80 %. But they are pretty big crickets but still a tiny amount

Actually hey Chad I got my chameleon from you two weeks ago at the reptile expo San Diego he a panther.

I just know when my chameleon was little he preferred the small crickets. If I threw a few large ones mixed in with the small he would eat the small.

I'll check out another place but the ones I ordered were small

My guy has a small appetite as well. Coincidently I got my panther from Chad too....I bet he's selling the weak ones and keeping the hefty eaters for himself

I usually throw 8-9 small crickets in there every morning and he only seems to eat 5 or 6 of them. He refuses to eat from my hand, and doesn't even look twice at small superworms. My problem now is that I purchased 1000 small crickets, and a week later I think they're too big for him =(

mons00n said:

My guy has a small appetite as well. Coincidently I got my panther from Chad too....I bet he's selling the weak ones and keeping the hefty eaters for himself

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LOL... Damn, busted...