How much do YOU feed per chameleon?

[reptileguy112]

I have seen a lot of differences in feeding like one person will feed crix/mealworms a day and the next person will feed 25. I feed about 7 mealworms, a few crix, and maybe a super worm if I have any.

 

[reptileguy112]

Also just felt like saying I hate it when I see an add for a chameleon online and they say its "healthy" but in the picture it has a bent casque, bowed legs, and sunk eyes.

 

[Andee]

I personally feed every other day for my adult male panther, and he gets around 16 large crickets and a couple worms every feeding, but he never really gains weight at all it's ridiculous he is extremely healthy and is a stupidly good eater. If I feed roaches that day he eats as many roaches he that he wants, usually ends up being 4 adult males and a couple silkworms or two wax worms.

My foster veiled is technically almost an adult, she was severely undernourished in the beginning of her life though so she gets fed every other day also but more than I would ever feed a female. She eats around 15-16 medium crickets, just hoping to get her to grow some. She refuses to eat anything other than crickets and silkworms so right now I am growing silkworms out for her and my panther boy, Ryker, so that they will have some of their favorite worms.

Do you have a baby/juvenile chameleon? Usually you feed them every day and feed them as much as they would eat. Considering a young chameleon grows to around 18 inches or larger (if they are a veiled or panther) in around a year they need large quantities of good quality food. So I would only stop feeding a young chameleon when they don't seem interested and then take that number as the general number to stop feeding at.

Are you feeding any soft bodied feeders? Like silkworms? Or hornworms?

 

[Kayroxyoursox]

I feed my 7-8 month old male veiled at least 10 medium crickets a day; and also greens throughout the week because it's the only thing he will take from my hand. Once a week he gets 4 wax worms as a treat with his veggies. I just got a male ambilobe Panther Cham yesterday and today he ate like 5 pinhead crickets and 3 wax worms. I know wax worms aren't good at all but it's all I had for him this morning.

 

[reptileguy112]

I personally feed every other day for my adult male panther, and he gets around 16 large crickets and a couple worms every feeding, but he never really gains weight at all it's ridiculous he is extremely healthy and is a stupidly good eater. If I feed roaches that day he eats as many roaches he that he wants, usually ends up being 4 adult males and a couple silkworms or two wax worms.

My foster veiled is technically almost an adult, she was severely undernourished in the beginning of her life though so she gets fed every other day also but more than I would ever feed a female. She eats around 15-16 medium crickets, just hoping to get her to grow some. She refuses to eat anything other than crickets and silkworms so right now I am growing silkworms out for her and my panther boy, Ryker, so that they will have some of their favorite worms.

Do you have a baby/juvenile chameleon? Usually you feed them every day and feed them as much as they would eat. Considering a young chameleon grows to around 18 inches or larger (if they are a veiled or panther) in around a year they need large quantities of good quality food. So I would only stop feeding a young chameleon when they don't seem interested and then take that number as the general number to stop feeding at.

Are you feeding any soft bodied feeders? Like silkworms? Or hornworms?

I don't currently have a baby but I am getting a panther egg tomorrow.

 

[Andee]

neonates- a chameleon from fresh from an egg, should be fed fruitflies and pinheads. Beanbeetles work well too. I would never feed mealworms, and especially not superworms to a baby. Young silkworms are great. As are young hornworms. Mealworms and superworms aren't nearly as neonate friendly, they tend to carry lots of chitin with them and can impact young chams easier if not given lots of soft bodied insects to round it out. I would never recommend roaches for younger chams as the young roaches small enough to feed a neonate are easy to lose in the enclosure.

 

[Kat H]

Where are pinheads available to be purchased? Like a petco or petsmart?

 

[Andee]

No pinheads are not available for purchase at petco or petsmart, those are only small crickets which are still much too large for a neonate. Pinheads can sometimes be found at Local Pet Stores like small mom and pop shops, but usually if you don't have you own colony of breeding crickets you have to buy them online.

 

[reptileguy112]

There are pinheads at all o my surrounding petsmarts, petcos, and local buisness petshops

 

[Andee]

Are they specifically labelled pinheads? Pinheads are like the size of a grain of rice at most.

 

[reptileguy112]

They are definitely bigger than rice but they are marketed as pinheads.

 

[GCash]

Shows how much those places know.

 

[Bush baby]

I have a one year old Jacksons, and i free range my crickets (providing them a tray full of food at the bottom of the enclosure), so i'm not sure how many crix he eats; but based on the amount i buy (about 24 per week) based on how many are left, i say he's probably eating two per day; some die. That and he gets snails once a week, super worms twice a week and BB flies, and the occasional wax and butter worms..

 

[Warbornovo16]

How old is he?

 

[reptileguy112]

I have never used fruit flys. It sounds messy and I think most would just get away they are so small I would have to feed a thousand.

 

[Andee]

Jacksons from what I've read never really pig out as much as the panthers and veileds... I wonder if it's because they grow so much less?

 

[Bush baby]

Jacksons from what I've read never really pig out as much as the panthers and veileds... I wonder if it's because they grow so much less?

Yes, that and the lower temps they like contributes to them having a slower metabolism- thus they require less food than Veileds and Panthers.