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Place the cricket so he ends up biting it when he closes his mouth as you put it in.

Can you please post a picture of your chameleon on/near something that will show its size? The insects might be too small.

Try tucking a cricket head first into his mouth while he’s drinking and his mouth is opening and shutting to drink. He will either eat it or spit it out….but they usually eat them.

I was never curious about the formic acid, even though I knew it was found in ants, until today…and your mention of it made me wonder what other insects might have formic acid in them. There’s always something new to learn about! I’ve never seen a chameleon target an ant either…but I only have...

@PetNcs said…”THEY ARE VENOMOUS AND HAVE FORMIC ACID AND ARE BLACK (whichbis a food color often omitted) SOMEONE NEED TO STUDY IT, I AM A BIT SKEPTICAL”…regarding Formic acid… Here’s a bit of information about insects that contain formic acid…...

“The venoms of formicine ants are well-known to contain concentrated formic acid.”… https://www.antwiki.org/w/images/a/a9/Koch%2C_L._et_al._%282025%29_Acid_reign_%2810.25849%40myrmecol.news_035%26001%29.pdf Harpalus pensylvanicus are formic acid producers...

My leopard gecko trio lived together in the same cage, under the reversed season changes, for over 19 years.

@DocZ said…”isn’t the standard form that we ask new keepers to complete and then is assessed and critiqued by experienced members sort of also saying “this is the right way to do it””…it does seem to be that way…but isn’t it better to provide information that can keep the chameleons alive and...

Sometimes I do!

@DocZ said…”I reversed the seasons to how they would occur in the northern hemisphere since in the summer I get too much natural light to fool the Cham into thinking it’s the cool season”…I did the reversed seasons too. I’m not sure if it would affect their circadianclock or not, but it didn’t...

Geese Petr…I was going to get to that next! Like “someone” said…”I have only 24 hours in a day. It is a choice I had to make”! 😉

Sounds like she could be a bit more hydrated yet.

More… “Aging With Every Heartbeat aka Why Do Chameleons Get Old in Captivity While They Are Still Young”… https://www.chameleons.info/l/aging-with-every-heartbeat/

I wish I knew why this has been the case for you. Maybe you should talk about it?

“A recent field study reports a highly female-biased sex ratio in the Eastern Arc Endemic Usambara three horned chameleon, Trioceros deremensis, a large, sexually dimorphic species.”… https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1389&context=etd

“Potentially receptive F. verrucosus females mainly allowed males to attempt copulation, whereas potentially receptive F. labordi females were selective.”… https://www.jstor.org/stable/27669743

Click on the pictures… https://www.petrnecas.com/ “Life of my choice”… https://www.petrnecas.com/about-me/ “RESPONSIBLE HERPETOCULTURE EXPERT (CZECH REPUBLIC)”… https://responsibleherpetoculture.foundation/about-us/petr-necas/ “Chameleons”… https://www.chameleons.info/en/ “Petr Necas –...

“The Jackson's chameleons in Hawaii have crooked horns so often due to limited availability of calcium in their environment of volcanic origin.”… https://www.chameleons.info/l/why-the-hawaiian-jacksons-chameleons-have-often-deformed-horns/ Here are some articles I found about calcium in Hawaii…...

“Hermaphrodite Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) Infected with Mycobacterium chelonae Chemovar niacinogenes”… “The gonads were determined to be ovotestes. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of acute Mycobacterium chelonae septicemia in a veiled chameleon and also the...

“Sex Determination and Trans-Sexual Specimen In Chameleons”… “Hormones. If there is a hormonal disbalance, caused e.g. by surgical removal of oviducts and ovaries, the original female develops male-like characteristics like high casque or even full male-like appearance!”…...