Handfeeding

[Bugsy23]

How should hand feed my 2 month baby veiled chameleon? it mostly eats fruit flies and some crickets and how do i get it interested in mealworms?

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

Worms are only a treat. You just hold them in your hand.

 

[DavidBuchan]

It's quite difficult to hand feed a fruit fly.......but with a cricket if you hold one of its legs and let the Chameleon see it that should do it. Sometimes you'll have to be patient and stay very still for a while. It really doesn't usually take much to get a chameleon interested in mealworms, just drop a couple into a bowl and he'll work out the rest. Remember that mealworms are low in nutrients and high fat so should only be a very occasional treat

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

If you're afraid of holding bugs buy one of those two foot long tweezers too. Haha.

 

[Bugsy23]

Thank except karma

Thax david and yea i no mealworms have a lot of fat but my cham always hisses at me when i try 2 feed

 

[sdheli420]

Thax david and yea i no mealworms have a lot of fat but my cham always hisses at me when i try 2 feed

that is normal since your cham is still soo young, they will hiss and act like they are gunna bite..just stay calm move slow, crix are the easiest to hand feed, unless you buy some baby silk worms from mullberry farms..but here is my male when he was 3 months old hand feeding..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMUI7TgdO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHkk3PtBro&feature=related

and him now about 6 months later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87H7XnpUSCk

 

[WOLVERINES135]

I have a 4 month old panther and i've had him for about almost 2 weeks and he still wont hand feed, he just puffs up in his little defensive position.

 

[Meow Kitty]

I have a 4 month old panther and i've had him for about almost 2 weeks and he still wont hand feed, he just puffs up in his little defensive position.

idk if im just awsome chams seem to always hand feed

 

[SilverDragoness]

I prefer the two leg method with crickets since they want to struggle and pop their little legs off.