i just find this wierd..

[richpass6]

usually i feed my cham large crickets and let him find them in his cage. today, i just tried using a feeding dish because i wante dto try some super worms an dhe will not go near the dish. i put a worm on a leaf near him and he starts puffing up getting all afraid of the worm. why is this? he such Pu**y!! he is pretrified of me btw and im the one who takes care of it...

 

[pssh]

You just have to let him get used to it. My chameleon wouldn't eat super worms for a few weeks, but then he decided to start for whatever reason.

It also might help if you put them on the screen and have them crawl around. My chameleon wont eat worms out of a dish, but will eat roaches and crickets and other faster moving things out of a feeding cup.

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

If a cham is used to hunting his feeders it takes them a little while to get used to the dish. If you just don't put any crickets in he will start using the dish in a few days usually. All of my chams that cup feed hated it at first, the tric for me was to start them with their favorite feeders in the dish and to have it mounted in the upper half of the enclosure somewhere near their favorite perch. Once you get him to eat his first super those will be like a drug for the chams. They are literally like grack for my chameleons because they are a beetle larvae and larvae are generally fatty. I have a few that refuse to cup feed though. I had three food cups in their cages and they didn't eat for 7 days each, they are all 3 adults so I was not starving them as they can go without food for awhile if they have too, so i have gone back to the free ranging/hand feeding with them because I didn't awnt to make them hunger any longer. Eventually they would ahve eaten the bugs out of the cups but it wasn't worth them going hungry any longer just to save my lazy self a little time. It has been easier for me to get panther chams in the 3-7 month range to cup feed than it has adults, I don't know if thats true for everybod. Good luck.



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[OldSkoolxReasons]

Pssh is right, if you let the super cling to the screen and start climbing upwards towards the cham they will go nuts. thats how all of mine tried supers for the first time. Also if they see you put the food on a leaf and they are afraid of you they wont attack teh bug right away because they are more scared/stressed than hungry at that point. if you just leave teh supers on the screen and watch but dont let him see you I think he will eat a suepr for ya.

 

[richpass6]

ill try puttign them on the screen, its jsut they are soo slow lol. this little guy wont even go near me when i try to feed him by hand. its kind of aggrovating caus eim putting alot of effot into making sure this little guy eats and has a suitable habitat...

 

[pssh]

Does he not eat normally? A suitable habitat would be one with no hands messing with him.

 

[richpass6]

hands dont mess with him... you obviousl yhave to go in there and do daily cleaning, maintainence the usual. YES he does eat normally . in the past couple weeks he has gotten soo big

 

[pssh]

Then let him eat the supers on his own time. He will when he wants to.

 

[dodolah]

my veiled is officially 3.5 years old the end of this year.
and he still refuses to eat superworms. Sometimes they just don't like some bugs.

 

[richpass6]

i had one crawls on the top screen and he is gone.. idk if he fell in the plant pot or was eaten. i have one more chillin in there now...

 

[skully23]

usually i feed my cham large crickets and let him find them in his cage. today, i just tried using a feeding dish because i wante dto try some super worms an dhe will not go near the dish. i put a worm on a leaf near him and he starts puffing up getting all afraid of the worm. why is this? he such Pu**y!! he is pretrified of me btw and im the one who takes care of it...

I'm taking it that because "you" provide for him that he should be all over you? If you haven't read then you wouldn't know that they stress alot about things and preferr to roam their home without a gaint hovering over them. Sometimes it takes time but then he may just stay that way for as long as he lives. Be nice about it, "your" the one who decided to get him and take part of your life to dedicate it to his.

I haven't tried any worms because the pet store was out of them at the time I was there. I have a feeling he will eat them because I use a 2inch tall clear container. I fill it and hold it up to my chameleon and he willing eats all thats in there. He is use to it because I have fed him this way ever since I got him.

 

[chameleonman57]

My female veiled had a eatting problem also, she was scared to come close to the supers, but then she lost her fear and she loves them now.

 

[Klinger]

Superworms + feeding dish

My panther would not use a feeding dish when I first got him. He was 8 months old when I purchased and I wanted to use a dish as to know how much he was consuming. I found an article some where online about a feeding dish with a run. What it is...is a 1/2 gallon milk jug with the handle and top portion removed. You cut out the back a little and add screen to that area with hot glue or silicone. It provides an area for the insects to crawl up. It did the trick. Container feeding the same day it was introduced. Now I let some crickets free range for stimulation, but for worms that I want to introduce and keep confined it is perfect. I add some crickets with any new insect I am introducing and have had no problem. Hope this helps and good luck.

 

[Carlton]

usually i feed my cham large crickets and let him find them in his cage. today, i just tried using a feeding dish because i wante dto try some super worms an dhe will not go near the dish. i put a worm on a leaf near him and he starts puffing up getting all afraid of the worm. why is this? he such Pu**y!! he is pretrified of me btw and im the one who takes care of it...

Chams don't like change. Anything new and unfamiliar is something to either attack or escape from. Your hand in his space is part of it.

A small feeding dish isn't a natural place for a cham to look for food. Some chams don't like shooting their tongues at solid surfaces or hitting the tip on the cup sides. I like to use a larger plastic storage box or Critter Keeper wedged in the branches or put in the bottom of the cage. Put a branch or other climbing route down to the edge of the box. Put a few (too many will confuse him) feeders (including familiar ones) loose in the box with a bit of gutload. The movement will attract his attention and he can watch them before deciding to try one. Let him discover them on his own.