How do you feed your chameleons?

[Forestdellic]

Hey guys my female is on a hunger strike or what I thought to be a hunger strike. I was wrapping my brain on why she decided to be this way and came to the conclusion that it was the food administration. She'll only eat food released into her cage. A real bummer she doesn't take to the jar

Anyway I am looking up different methods of how you can administer food to your chameleon and would like to hear your experiences and methods

Please & Thank you!

 

[jannb]

I normally cup feed or hand feed. Every now and then I'll put a hornworm or silkworm on a branch in their tree. Do you have a picture of your female? Sometimes they go off food before laying eggs.

 

[dlegare]

I use feeder cups for crickets and roaches. I let blue bottle flies out in the enclosure.

I hand feed silks and horns

Nick Barta makes awesome feeder cups that attaches magnetically.

I choose feeder cups for two reasons.

1 I'm concerned that the more aggressive banded crickets I sometimesget may nibble on my Chams at night
2 one of my boys is blind in one eye and he has a little trouble with distance shots

 

[Forestdellic]

I normally cup feed or hand feed. Every now and then I'll put a hornworm or silkworm on a branch in their tree. Do you have a picture of your female? Sometimes they go off food before laying eggs.

Yes I do but she is not in a good shape. She has been off feed for a few weeks and I have been assisting feeding her all this time. Dosing her with BSP multivitamin dilution. She ate a few crickets for the first time last Sunday all on her own. Her ribs are a little sunken in, not sure if MDB.

I'll post a picture of her once I have the chance

 

[kinyonga]

Please don't make multiple posts about the same chameleon when she is still having issues. it makes it very difficult and time consuming for those of us who are trying to help you to follow.

How much are you feeding her every day? How often are you dusting and with what are you specifically dusting? What are you gutloading with? Did you ever determine if she is gravid or not?

Was she tested for coccidia since your male had it?

 

[ZenChameleons]

Varies, we have some who eat from feeder cups and some who like to hunt. Try starting out with some in and some out of the cup, might take some training to get her to understand the cup is where the food is.