Fatty mcfat fat Cham

[turtle]

Is there such a thing as a Cham eating to much cuz my Cham just wants to keep eating and eating! All of his other habits are fine. I dust his crickets and mist him all the time he just always wants to eat.

 

[sandrachameleon]

What type of chameleon and how old is it?

Yes, it is possible to overfeed.

 

[turtle]

He is a 4 month old abilomy (or something like that I don't know how to
Spell it) panther chameleon

 

[NewOwner]

Ambilobe?

Like sandra said, chameleons can eat to much, and can get overweight. Although somewhere i read that younger chams eat more, cause they are growing, how many crickets does he/she eat per day?

 

[summoner12]

Good luck and welcome!

As a young cham, it isn't easy to over feed. The guy will stop when he is full. Just make sure to supplement the little guy well. Don't leave a bunch of crickets in the cage with him at night.

How many crickets does he eat? How big or old are the crickets? Are you supplementing the crickets? Are you gut loading the crickets? What are you gut loading with?

Check out this Link if you haven't already.

 

[turtle]

yes I have been dusting them and feeding the crickets with cricket food. I don't know how many exactly he eats a day but it's around 20. I spread them out during the day like 10 in the morning and 10 at like 3pm. I'm afraid to give him more cuz I don't want him to get fat but he doesn't look overweight anyway. (he actually looks skiny......it's wierd!)

 

[sandrachameleon]

I ditto summoner12
hard to overfeed the young ones

What is the "cricket food" you are using? what's in it?
for info on bug nutrition and gutloading, check out this entry in my blog: https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/75-feeder-nutrition.html