Behavioural Cues of a Hunger Strike

[JasonSinger]

Hi All:

So I posted a few days ago that Andrew has not been moving around much. I got the results of his fecal and everything is fine there. He is still not roaming much and he is still ignoring crickets. I have been able to get him to eat supers though so he is eating.

I am trying to not give him too many because I would prefer him eat crickets and supplement with other feeders due to availability issues with other feeders here. But I am concerned he is not eating enough / is hungry. If he were truly hungry, would he be on th ebottom looking for food?

He seems pretty content on the branches he picks and isn't pining around or anything which is why I ask.

Thanks so much.

Jason

 

[pssh]

How old is he?

He will eat when he is hungry. Don't offer any food for a while (safe length depends on age) and then offer crickets and he should readily accept them if he is hungry enough.

 

[JasonSinger]

That is what I thought - he is about 10 months old.

 

[pssh]

If he's healthy he should be able to handle a few days without food.

 

[carol5208]

Well join the club with the crickets! My chameleon has not eaten crickets in about 5 months now.(he is 13 mos) I just feed him a variety of worms(horns, silks, wax, supers) and he seems to be doing fine. Not saying it is right or wrong, but I just have pretty much given up on the cricket thing. From time to time I will run up to the pet store and buy like 6 and I end up letting them go in the yard cause he just ignores them!

 

[gaxmode]

Buy some dubias