Perla Adams
New Member
Can a chameleon learn where to find his food?
This is the situation:
I will be traveling soon. I will be one month in USA. I have an employee that will come to my house to take care of the Champ (the chameleon) and my other pets/plants.
I think my chameleon is stable: he likes his new house (he looks healthy), I have a timer to keep the UBV light on 10 hours per day, he has a dropper running constantly, I will instruct our employee to spray the cage at least two times per day, but still, I have the food supply problem.
Another person (who will be in contact with our employee) is the one that supply me with cockroaches. He picks around 12 German cockroach per week (I know, that is not enough, I am starting a cockroach farm but it will take some time). So far, what I do is feed him 2 or 3 alive roaches (the day I receive them) and freeze the rest to give him 2 or 3 per day using the cup method ( I take him out of his cage and place him in an outdoor bush while hold the cup, he quickly comes to eat them). He does not have problem eating the freeze roaches. His urates are white and poop is what is considered normal (moist solid and dark brown, before, his urates were yellow/orange and the poop watery). He is healthier than when I bring him home. I always dust the roaches with calcium. He survived all the wrong information/practices that I received in the Pet Shop.
Today, I decided to place the roaches in a dish inside the cage; I place the dish in a place where he sees the roaches, immediately he approached the dish and eats them.
I want to know if I can teach him to always go to that spot to eat. It is simple if I just ask our employee to put the roaches in the same dish rather than ask him to take him out of the cage and cup feeding. He is a good employee but to handle the chameleon is always a risk, so I want to make the things simple/safe for everybody.
Thank you
This is the situation:
I will be traveling soon. I will be one month in USA. I have an employee that will come to my house to take care of the Champ (the chameleon) and my other pets/plants.
I think my chameleon is stable: he likes his new house (he looks healthy), I have a timer to keep the UBV light on 10 hours per day, he has a dropper running constantly, I will instruct our employee to spray the cage at least two times per day, but still, I have the food supply problem.
Another person (who will be in contact with our employee) is the one that supply me with cockroaches. He picks around 12 German cockroach per week (I know, that is not enough, I am starting a cockroach farm but it will take some time). So far, what I do is feed him 2 or 3 alive roaches (the day I receive them) and freeze the rest to give him 2 or 3 per day using the cup method ( I take him out of his cage and place him in an outdoor bush while hold the cup, he quickly comes to eat them). He does not have problem eating the freeze roaches. His urates are white and poop is what is considered normal (moist solid and dark brown, before, his urates were yellow/orange and the poop watery). He is healthier than when I bring him home. I always dust the roaches with calcium. He survived all the wrong information/practices that I received in the Pet Shop.
Today, I decided to place the roaches in a dish inside the cage; I place the dish in a place where he sees the roaches, immediately he approached the dish and eats them.
I want to know if I can teach him to always go to that spot to eat. It is simple if I just ask our employee to put the roaches in the same dish rather than ask him to take him out of the cage and cup feeding. He is a good employee but to handle the chameleon is always a risk, so I want to make the things simple/safe for everybody.
Thank you