Chameleon missing food

[Carl The Cham]

My male 2 year old ambilobe chameleon seems to be missing his food more than usual, maybe 1-2 times I feed him. A couple days ago his tongue got stuck to the tweezers and he was able to pull it off and eat the hornworm but maybe it caused injury? Today when I fed him I had a cup up to him and when he shot his tongue it went slightly up as he was shooting it. He got all of the rest of the bugs first try but is there anything that I should do?

 

[kinyonga]

I would get Hum to start drinking and then as the mouth is opening and shutting stick a cricket, head first, BETWEEN HIS TEETH so he won’t have to shoot the tongue out for a couple of days.

 

[jannb]

Yes, let him completely rest his tongue so it can heal. I don’t recommend tweezers. He probably hurt his tongue on the tweezers.

 

[Beman]

Was he missing prior to hitting the tongs? What is your supplement routine?

Note for anyone else reading this... Tongs are not recommended to use when feeding a cham. If they miss and you pull on the tongs you can hyper extend the tongue causing quite a bit of damage. Minor cases can heal but extreme cases can need amputation.

 

[Carl The Cham]

Was he missing prior to hitting the tongs? What is your supplement routine?

Note for anyone else reading this... Tongs are not recommended to use when feeding a cham. If they miss and you pull on the tongs you can hyper extend the tongue causing quite a bit of damage. Minor cases can heal but extreme cases can need amputation.

It was not messing before I will let his tongue heal for a few days. My supplements are calcium non d 3 Saturday and Monday every day 3-4 bugs and switch off between multivitamin and d3 on Thursday 3-4 bugs

 

[Beman]

It was not messing before I will let his tongue heal for a few days. My supplements are calcium non d 3 Saturday and Monday every day 3-4 bugs and switch off between multivitamin and d3 on Thursday 3-4 bugs

And which multivitamin are you using?

 

[Carl The Cham]

 

[Beman]

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perfect just wanted to make sure your multivitamin has vitamin A which that one does.

 

[Carl The Cham]

Ok thank you guys