List every food item your chameleon has ever eaten...

[Bush baby]

Was just thinking about the variety of items my 1 and a half year old Jacksons 'Kamino' has eaten in his lifetime...

BB Flies
Dubia Roaches
Crickets
Butter worms
Silk worms
Snails
Preying Mantis
Stink Bug
Wax worms
Wax moth
Superworms

 

[Lathis]

How about a list of every (expensive) bug my chameleon refused to eat?

Hornworms $30
Silkworms $30
P. Nivea $40
Isopods $60
Mantids $20
Butter worms $15
Dubia $20

And repeat twice over . Ferdinand loved his snails and crickets though. Anything with a crunch.

 

[JaxyGirl]

June bugs
Grasshoppers
Wiled Field crickets
Cultivated crickets
Wild caterpillers
Super worms
Hornworms
Inchworms
Spiders
Moths
Butterflies
Dragonflys
House flys
Mayflies
Various Beatles
Fishing worms
Dady long legs
Moist cat food
Raw chicken, fish and shrimp

 

[MamatoElvis]

I love this post. Getting some good ideas. My almost 8 month old Panther has eaten.

Crickets
Discoids
Green banana roaches
Hornworms
Silkworms
Pink winged stick bugs
Indian stick bugs
Phoenix worms
Blue bottle flies
Dragonflies
Butterflies
Moths
Butter worms
Working on snails but he hasn't tried one yet

 

[Andie]

Lath is, that is hysterical & I can SO relate!! Lol!

 

[Andie]

Snails??

How exactly do you feed snails? Is it any snail or a specific kind?

 

[Bush baby]

How exactly do you feed snails? Is it any snail or a specific kind?

I feed my Jackson's 'Helix Aspersa snails' that i bred, seperated the eggs from the adults so they won't transmit parasites, raised the babies until they are dime size and then fed them off.

 

[Lathis]

How exactly do you feed snails? Is it any snail or a specific kind?

https://www.chameleonforums.com/common-garden-snails-slugs-140818/

Yup, we captured some wild snails, carefully separated their eggs and are now raising the first generation of captive snails. There's a good conversation about it in the thread above. Snails are very easy to raise, but you have to be patient. It can take a year for your first captive born generation of snails to start laying eggs to keep the colony going.

 

[repdog]

I'm glad this came back to the top of the line. I was going to post my own as I seem to have a very picky eater. Running out of things to feed him.

Agree with Lathis on the expensive items they refuse to eat. Mine will not touch Silkworms.

 

[reptileguy112]

Dubia
Crix
Wax Worm
Butterworm
Mealworm
Superworn
Soldier Flies
Pheonex Worm

 

[MissLissa]

On Purpose:
-Fruit Flies
-Bean Weevil Beetles
-Isopods (reluctantly)
-Crickets
-Mealworms and beetles
-Kingworms and beetles
-Superworms
-Butterworms (reluctantly)
-Silkworms
-Hornworms
-Waxworms and Moths
-Black Soldier Flies and Larvae
-Indian Stick Insects
-Blue Bottle Flies

Accidentally While Sunning On the Balcony:
-A Paper Wasp
- Some kind of giant black beetle; I was sure he was going to choke
-A gigantic female spider who was carrying babies and then the babies exploded off her and then he ate them, too, because I really don't like spiders and was too busy running away to save him from his own appetite and poor life choices

 

[Andie]

Miss Lissa,

I am ROTFLMBO! I LAUGHED so hard it took me a minute to be able to relate your story.