We've got a Veiled about 6-9 months old. What is the best diet to feed him? What vitamins and schedule would you recommend? He's eating crickets that we feed with Fluker's high calcium. I'm thinking that is not enough. How big should the crickets be in relation to him? He's getting over pin worms now. Lesson learned, buy from a reputable breeder. Thanks in advance for the advice.
Best diet for a Veiled?
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pssh
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Food should be no larger than the space between his eyes, but it can be longer (ex: worms) crickets should be fed high calcium low phos foods suck as kale, collard greens, and mustard greens. They canalso be fed fruit like apples and oranges and other veggies like carrots and yams. No spinach, broccoli, or tomatoes.
Other food items include coackroaches, stick bugs, snails, praying mantis, wax worms, silk worms, butter worms, hornworms, sow bugs (Rollie pollies), and Phoenix worms.
Here's a veggie cart:
http://www.guinealynx.info/diet_vegs.html
calcium without d3 very feeding, calcium with d3 twice a month, vitamins once or twice a month.
Other food items include coackroaches, stick bugs, snails, praying mantis, wax worms, silk worms, butter worms, hornworms, sow bugs (Rollie pollies), and Phoenix worms.
Here's a veggie cart:
http://www.guinealynx.info/diet_vegs.html
calcium without d3 very feeding, calcium with d3 twice a month, vitamins once or twice a month.
sandrachameleon
Chameleon Enthusiast
A varied diet is best - lots of different types of bugs, not just crickets.
Here's a list: https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/74-feeders.html
Veileds will also start to each vegetation directly as they age - collard, dandelion, romaine, hybiscus...
Gutload crickets with fresh vegetables and fruits and such, especially those items that are high in calcium. Read more: https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/75-feeder-nutrition-gutloading.html
Supplementing info: https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/65-supplements.html
The Veiled Chameleon are one of the most commonly bred and available species of Chameleons and are now being bred in captivity. They are hardily reptiles which require tall cages for perching, supplemental heat and UV light. They are insectivores and need a varied, healthy and clean diet. They will become bored and refuse to eat if they are fed the same thing day after day. Adult Veiled will eat every other day. The diet may include the crickets, meal worms, wax worms, earth worms cock roaches, grass hoppers and many others.
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