Can Chameleon feed for Exo-Terra canned food ?
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sandrachameleon
Chameleon Enthusiast
Your native stick insects and grasshoppers and Katydids may be an option. You'd want to rear them yourself or at least keep wild ones for a few days prior to offering to the chameleon, so that you know that what the stick bugs/grasshoppers were most recently eating is not toxic for the chameleon.
Your native cockroach may be good too - but again you'd have to rear them yourself to know they are safe for the chameleon to eat. Raising cockroaches in malaysia is a bit risky - they could easily infest your home.
Another local pest you can use as a feeder would be termites.
Moths (not butterflies) are an option.
I think you should be able to find silkworms Bombyx mori if you do some local research.
Your native cockroach may be good too - but again you'd have to rear them yourself to know they are safe for the chameleon to eat. Raising cockroaches in malaysia is a bit risky - they could easily infest your home.
Another local pest you can use as a feeder would be termites.
Moths (not butterflies) are an option.
I think you should be able to find silkworms Bombyx mori if you do some local research.
VeiledOwner87
New Member
no worries buddy, the 3 choices you listen that you are able to get are fine. anorexia is leaned more towards chameleons who are offered only one type or maybe two. 3 should be fine, but mix it up of course. in my opinion, you could give him crickets all feedings and maybe substitue one or two feedings with meals and dubias. or one week all dubia feeding mix it up with one feeding of crickets and mealworms. just keep in mind you dont want to over feed meal worms, but once a week would be fine.
also, if you could fill out a help form, that would help us out alot as well. by the sound of your supplimentation, that is a no no, and the amount of multivitamin you are offering could do internal damage on his liver and organs which would make him stop eating as well. please fill out the help form and we will do our absolute best to help you out! if you dont know where it is, it is one of the "sticky topics" at the beginning of the health section of the forums. copy and paste that form and fill it out in a post on this thread.
VeiledOwner87
New Member
where are you from by the way. no disrespect to your language at all, but your english is a little hard to understand. we realy do appreciate your effort and english that you are bringing fourth though in asking for help. forgive me if i missed in the thread if you shared where you live, but i would like to know where anyways so we can see if you can have some more insects shipped your way.
Lovereps
Avid Member
Change your supplement timetable
Fischer's chameleons are supplemented differently than Panther and Veiled chams.
For a Fischer's chameleon (and other "montane" chams), it is recommended that you dust insects 2x a week with plain calcium (without any phosphorus or D3 in it), 1x per month with a vitamin powder and 1x per month with calcium with D3.
Since your multivitamin contains D3, you may be able to omit the "calcium with D3 1x per month".
Fischer's, like other montane chams, can be harmed by supplementing too often.
Fischer's chameleons are supplemented differently than Panther and Veiled chams.
For a Fischer's chameleon (and other "montane" chams), it is recommended that you dust insects 2x a week with plain calcium (without any phosphorus or D3 in it), 1x per month with a vitamin powder and 1x per month with calcium with D3.
Since your multivitamin contains D3, you may be able to omit the "calcium with D3 1x per month".
Fischer's, like other montane chams, can be harmed by supplementing too often.
VeiledOwner87
New Member
ive heard this that montanes are suceptable to over supplimentation. my vet however aggrees with this to a certain extent, and advises that with any reptile plain calcium is recommended religiously. not ever day of course, but atleast 3-5 times a week. i would like some scientific write ups backing this up, i will not just go with opinion and what works best for some on this one.
Lovereps
Avid Member
I agree 100% that recommendations based upon sound scientific studies are the absolute ideal.
In the absence of such data, I will trust what has been tried and true by successful cham keepers, over what is theoretically correct.
That's why I don't supplement more frequently that 2x a week with plain calcium.
Your vet may be the best reptile vet on the planet or the worst, but either way, without scientific studies to back-up his opinion, it is nothing more than a theory.
Syn
Avid Member
Good post.
laurie
Retired Moderator
You did miss where he said he is from Malaysia. You may need to work at it but I am able to understand him without a problem.
Elizadolots
New Member
Are you still in Malaysia?
Because if you live in another country now, that would change some of the recommendations people make. By that I mean, if you live in the U.S., Canada or England, there are members who can tell you what insects are available and where you can get them.
Because if you live in another country now, that would change some of the recommendations people make. By that I mean, if you live in the U.S., Canada or England, there are members who can tell you what insects are available and where you can get them.
