Eating dirt

[brittanymeyyyers]

So I have a 4 month old veiled chameleon, he's a male.

He has crickets running around his cage and mealworms in a dish...
but I just saw him look at the plant that is in his cage and eat the soil...
Does anyone know why he did this?

 

[fleetwoodchams]

So I have a 4 month old veiled chameleon, he's a male.

He has crickets running around his cage and mealworms in a dish...
but I just saw him look at the plant that is in his cage and eat the soil...
Does anyone know why he did this?

Yes, My Memphis did this when I first got him home at 3 mo old.. i looked it up and a lot of folks said minerals were lacking in his diet. I got a good reptile multi-vit supplement that I now dust crickets w/ once a month. Haven't seen him do it since. A side note: If you have stone in the soil he could choke. Cover the soil with moss or some other natural product that he can't get stuck in his throat.

 

[Kath44]

Moss could still pose a risk. Cover the soil with river rocks, large enough that he can't puck any up it eat/swallow.
Kath.