Chameleon Hatchlings feeding help!!!

[easton]

Hi,My veiled chameleon's eggs gonna hatch next few weeks,i am worry about the feeding of the hatchlings,my area is lack of insects supply,only has a few:
Big waxworm,adult crickets,Dubia Roaches(self breed),and mealworm only,i had a lot of baby dubia(1-1.5cm),just wondering that hatchings eat baby dubia roaches or not,please reply,very appreciated
Thanks.

 

[CarlC]

If you are not in the city you could collect wild insects with a net until you find a good supply.

Carl

 

[MelissaB]

If I were you, I would order some fruit fly cultures and culturing media online, now. That way you'll have them. It takes about 10 days or so for a fruit fly culture to start producing. I'd order pin head crickets, too. I've never had baby chameleons, but from what I've read they go through a lot of fruit flies and pin heads. I have a hatching anole and had to keep fruit flies to feed her until she was big enough for tiny crickets.

 

[jannb]

Welcome to the Chameleon Forums. Baby veileds are so much fun and allot of work. I hope you will be able to find enough food for them. I had 27 babies and they were eating 4000 baby crickets a week (pinhead crickets the first couple of weeks) plus fruit flies and freshly hatched mantis. Right at first they will be to small for baby dubia but if they grow quickly (feed them all they want and they will grow quickly) they should be able to eat baby dubia by 3 to 4 weeks old. I feed babies all they can eat for about 5 minutes 3 times a day. After 6 to 8 weeks old I go to feeding twice a day. Are you set up for the babies yet? I have pictures of the baby bins that I used here: https://www.chameleonforums.com/babies-one-month-old-40584/

You should also find my blog helpful. https://www.chameleonforums.com/babies-one-month-old-40584/

We all love baby pictures here. So keep us posted on how it goes and post plenty of pictures.

 

[easton]

Thanks,that was useful!