Feeding and sleeping habits...is there a correlation?

[jpw0006]

My cham Sulley is a porker and will eat all day if you let him. He is up to eating 10-12 small-medium sized crickets a day and is actually starting to look fat. He's about 6 months old and I have read that you can overfeed, and should start to control their intake better around that age. Any suggestions for the best way to do so? or do I even need to do this?

He is still too small to eat large crickets (he spits them out and eats them piece by piece). What I have tried is switching to every other day (for about 5 days now) and he has been going to bed a little earlier (around 8-8:30 instead of 10-10:30). Any ideas?

 

[panthercham]

Mine seem to follow the natural sun pattern and at the moment he is in his sleeping spot at around 6.30 and his lights are off at 7pm and switch on at 7am. Chams generally need 12 hours of sleep. Do your chams get any natural lights coming in early in the am that would be waking him up earlier?? 10.00 - 10.30 is late at night for a cham.

I started cutting back my chams feeders at 8 - 9 months gradually until 12 months where he was being fed every second day.

 

[jpw0006]

He does't usually get any natural sunlight in the morning and he usually sleeps until the timers wake him up. I try to give him natural sunlight once a day but that's when I put his cage outside in the early afternoon. I cut his lights at 9pm to see how he would handle it, he walked around for about 15 minutes and passed out soon after. I guess I will keep his timers set for 9 or so for now, and watch his reactions.