cham spitting out cricks

[leerob001]

hi everyone im new on here i got a 5-6 week old yemen male and is fine just recently shed drinking well and been eating approx 3-4 small cricks a day however just within the last 2 days he has caught the cricket and then spat it back out still drinking fine.
is this normal or ok or anything else please let us know what you think.

thanks

Lee

 

[PINki]

Maybe the crix are to big for him and he can't swalow them. Try to offer any other food and than pass on crix again.

 

[ColorCham427]

What are you feeding your crickets?

Do you clean your cricket's cage?

Are you letting the crickets free-roam your cham's cage?

Is your cham's cage clean?

I have noticed, and have experienced myself, that chameleons tend to go for large insects, as long as they're interested.

They could possibly be way too large and scratching your cham's eye and thats the reason why he's letting them out of his mouth?

Make sure everything is clean.

Have you seen your little guy shoot his tongue and catch an insect on his own?

 

[leerob001]

hi again im feeding the crickets a mix of tropical fish flakes, dandilion, apple, other greens etc... and dust em with nutrobal what do you recomend?

chams viv is clean crix i got out of packaging tub do you recomend 1 of those cricket keepers or any other? so maybe because they dirty then!!!

poss to large he had a couple of big ones and was hanging out of his mouth until he decided to swallow it haha i have got very small ones tho too 4-6mm.

he does go and catch em himself with his tongue yes i have been holding them on the tweezers in front of him and he been taking em off them, however a few have jumped out into viv and ive seen him creep up on em and get em with tongue.

thanx for advice

Lee

 

[kenya]

He should be eating more than 3-4 small crickets a day.