Meal worms Addiction

[zachmcgaughey]

Hello My little guy would not eat anything for a day, so I fed him a couple mealworms just so he could get some source of food in him. I have not fed him many mealworms 5-10 over the past couple days. Now he is rejecting crickets. I have my own mealworm colony and Im only feeding him the ones that have molted without the shell. Should I stop feeding him until ha takes a cricket or keep crickets in the cage and if he is not eating offer him an occasional mealworm?

Thank you

 

[zachmcgaughey]

Hello My little guy would not eat anything for a day, so I fed him a couple mealworms just so he could get some source of food in him. I have not fed him many mealworms 5-10 over the past couple days. Now he is rejecting crickets. I have my own mealworm colony and Im only feeding him the ones that have molted without the shell. Should I stop feeding him until ha takes a cricket or keep crickets in the cage and if he is not eating offer him an occasional mealworm?

Thank you

I would really appreciate a prompt response. Suggestions cant hurt

 

[fluxlizard]

Since nobody else has replied- My advice-

it depends-

is the cham still a baby?
Does it have good body weight?

If he isn't a baby and has good body weight, I'd stop feeding mealworms altogether for a couple of months and wait him out. Just me- I don't baby my chams and as a result I don't have picky eaters- they eat or go hungry until they do- seems kind of mean but then I don't have to worry about them not eating what is good for them.

If it is a baby or has poor body weight it is a little trickier.
You have to watch the weight in that case and just keep trying with the other stuff but give in a little too...

 

[zachmcgaughey]

Yeah he is a baby 3.5 months old and I am going cold turkey with the mealworms for a couple days and will see how it goes. THANK YOU FOR RESPONDING

 

[sandrachameleon]

you'll want to figure out why he's not eating crickets. A young growing chameleon should be hungry and eating whatever it can find. Are the crickets too large perhaps?


offer a range of prey - not just crickets and mealworms
keep mealworms to under 20% of total diet.

 

[Kath44]

Mine gets bored with crickets, if that's all that's on offer. He loves locust, small ones. He's had the odd waxworm and he wolfed down a load of small calci worms(Phoenix). Not had much luck with dubias yet, tried today, he had one. Only small too. So he had some locust.
Will still try again with dubias though.
Here in uk, all stores only sell crickets (black and brown), locust, wax worms and meal worms.
I ordered online for the Phoenix worms and dubias and going to order some blue bottle casters too.
Keep trying yours with different things, offer them differently too. Maybe off your hand, from cup, free range etc.
kath.