Bad cricket?

[GooglezNvincent]

So i tossed a little cricket in my faly's cage and he shot it and chewed it a couple times and then spit it out. The cricket was still alive so i picked it up and tossed it in my other falys cage and she shot chewed and spit it out also, can they tell if a crickets it bad?

 

[HmC]

i dont think so cuz my little guy has eaten a dead one before. ewww

 

[jojackson]

According to a few sources I read, they made vague refrence to some sensation of taste in the chameleon mouth (tastebuds), though it was pretty vague.

Its possible. I know that my lizards tend to ignore crickets once they get older (the crickets) large ones nearing their time. I have no idea why though, but its pretty consistant. I now feed larger older crickets to my turtles, they dont seem to care, I think their little brains say 'find something and eat it', and thats it!

 

[Pure]

The advice I've seen about gut loading with fruit and other gut loads seem to point toward a change in the bugs taste. Dave or Eric mentioned not long ago that you have to wipe superworn beetles butts before feeding or they get spit out. So I would only be able to deduce that, that cricket had something funky about him they didn't like.

Maybe you've discovered a new form of cricket BO.

 

[GooglezNvincent]

HA HA HA i got the smelly kid that sits in the corner! LMFAO!

 

[ColorCham427]

So i tossed a little cricket in my faly's cage and he shot it and chewed it a couple times and then spit it out. The cricket was still alive so i picked it up and tossed it in my other falys cage and she shot chewed and spit it out also, can they tell if a crickets it bad?

i really wouldnt feed one of my other chameleons a feeder that has already been in another's mouth..

maybe the cricket was having explosive farting problems?