Iv just recently got a 9week old female veiled. shes very happy in her new home, climbing around everywhere and loves her dripper. temps are fine, plenty to climb on and hide in. i was just wondering if anyone could suggest the best fooods for her. iv tryed her on small locusts, which i think were just a little too big for her as she tryed to eat a couple and they got away so she gave up on them. iv put sum lil crickets in there and she seems to like them. but iv just got her some fruit flies, which she yums up. she ate loooooads of them. only problem with them is there so small, i think mabey too small for her and there very difficult to dust with vitamins. also whats the best vitamin/calcium powder to use, at the moment im using neutrabol. also, at what age would i be putting her on different foods?
Food for baby veileds
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sandrachameleon
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As she grows, so can the size of the food prey items.
Small chameleons can eat: small crickets, small flies, small silkworms, small superworms/kingworms, small isopods, small phasmids, etc
Its not hard to dust fruit flies. Have a little supplement dust in a container. Shake a few flies into said container. Swirl/shake to cover flies. Put flies into enclosure.
Small chameleons can eat: small crickets, small flies, small silkworms, small superworms/kingworms, small isopods, small phasmids, etc
Its not hard to dust fruit flies. Have a little supplement dust in a container. Shake a few flies into said container. Swirl/shake to cover flies. Put flies into enclosure.
You should have a phosphorous-free calcium powder to dust the insects at most feedings. This helps make up for the sometimes poor ratio of calcium to phosphorous found in the feeders we use.
I use a vitamin powder twice a month that has a beta carotene source of vitamin a in it (and no D3). Beta carotene won't build up in the system like preformed vitamin A will. However, its not proven that any/all chameleons can convert the beta carotene...so some people use a little preformed once in a while. Excess preformed can prevent the D3 from doing its job and push the chameleon towards MBD...so you need to be careful of it.
I also dust twice a month with a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder. D3 from supplements can also build up in the system...so don't overdo it.
Here are some sites that you might like to read....
http://adcham.com/
http://chameleonnews.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060502...als.com/vet/index.php?show=8.Gout.Basics.html
http://www.uvguide.co.uk/
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/
I use a vitamin powder twice a month that has a beta carotene source of vitamin a in it (and no D3). Beta carotene won't build up in the system like preformed vitamin A will. However, its not proven that any/all chameleons can convert the beta carotene...so some people use a little preformed once in a while. Excess preformed can prevent the D3 from doing its job and push the chameleon towards MBD...so you need to be careful of it.
I also dust twice a month with a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder. D3 from supplements can also build up in the system...so don't overdo it.
Here are some sites that you might like to read....
http://adcham.com/
http://chameleonnews.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20060502...als.com/vet/index.php?show=8.Gout.Basics.html
http://www.uvguide.co.uk/
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/
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