Chameleon wont eat dubia

[BlueNosyBe]

Hey guys. (sorry for any poor English)I have started a dubia colony, but for some reason my 8 month old blue nosy be does not want to eat them. All he takes are the crickets.
I find this strange since the breeder said all he wanted to eat was dubia and thad it did not like crickets.
Any tips?

And something else not realated to food. Sometimes his white patches along his side turns light brown in stead of snow white. What is the reason for this?
It comes in periods of a few hours a few times a week

 

[werecat]

Hello. Some chameleons are just not interested in Dubia. They don't move around as much as other roaches. My Nosy Be actually hates them! I have tried many times to get him to eat them and he either walks away or puffs up in anger. I tricked him into eating them a couple times, but he has still not acquired a taste for them. You can keep trying, but I gave up.

As for his white line turning brown, this is normal. Just like the rest of his body, the white spots change color based on temperature and mood. Hard to say what the colors mean. My cham's white turns its brightest when he's excited or sleeping. It can turn quite a dull brown, but there does not seem to be anything I can attribute it to. Maybe temperature.

 

[BlueNosyBe]

Hello. Some chameleons are just not interested in Dubia. They don't move around as much as other roaches. My Nosy Be actually hates them! I have tried many times to get him to eat them and he either walks away or puffs up in anger. I tricked him into eating them a couple times, but he has still not acquired a taste for them. You can keep trying, but I gave up.

As for his white line turning brown, this is normal. Just like the rest of his body, the white spots change color based on temperature and mood. Hard to say what the colors mean. My cham's white turns its brightest when he's excited or sleeping. It can turn quite a dull brown, but there does not seem to be anything I can attribute it to. Maybe temperature.

Thank you

 

[ZiggyStardust]

My adult male Veiled will not only not touch Dubia, he won't eat crickets either, despite me starving him for 3 days in an attempt to get him to eat them. He just won't, so I gave up in the end.

As long as you feed a variety of different insects, all appropriately gut loaded, I really don't think it matters that much.

I feed him nearly adult (but not quite!) locust, large silkworms, large phoenix worms and he has a few wax worms once a week as a treat. He has had a recent visit to the vet and is healthy as a horse, so not eating dubia or crickets is obviously not doing him any harm.