cricket hater

[naich]

so my 7 ,omth male panther eats like 3 crix a dya for two days now..he got 4 supers yesterday and ate them but is it normal for him to hate crix....he used to like them...he loves horns and silks....wich are in the mail...soon to come.

so its normal right?

also 80 degrees is okay to take him out for a while right..like outside.

 

[hallenhe]

I take mine out when it's warm enough for me to be out without a jacket. 80 is certainly warm enough for a panther, and they should be good into the nineties (provided they're not stuck in the sun without shade or shelter). Some of the montane species (Jackson's, etc.) start to get a bit unhappy in the upper eighties, and many pygmies don't like it at all above 85 or 86, but a panther is used to things on the warm side.
I think of crickets as nutritious but maybe sometimes a bit boring - they're the rice, the mashed potatoes, the Yorkshire pudding, while supers etc. are the chocolate eclairs.

 

[liquidsweetness]

You could try feeding your crickets different things. To rotate what you feed them by the week. I was told to think of crickets more as a shell, and that they are likely to taste like what they are fed. So whatever you feed them for 24 hours before your chameleon eats them, is probably what they taste like to him (as well as the nutritional value). So if you change what you feed them often, like every week, or every three days or whatever works, you're likely to have a less bored chameleon. Its worth a try. Mine never seem to tire of their crickets.

 

[naich]

i know thats called gut loading he sumtimes eats like one or more crix when i give them collard greens. but thats just cawiencidentds.

 

[cushcameleon]

My cham hates crickets, and I mean HATES them. The crickets will literally walk on his head and he still will not eat them, but as soon as I drop in a worm he goes running towards it.

 

[jojackson]

Imagine if you lived on nothing but french fries, might get a bit monotonous after a while dontcha think? I beleive chams get bored with one food source, afterall, they have a never ending buffet with huge variety in the wild.
While we are limited with what we can offer incaptivity, variety is still the spice of life.
Try to rotate or offer the best variety of feeders you can each day is the best you can do.

My Homer is not so hot on crickets right now either.