my veiled cham wont eat roaches

[stsfyt]

hi, i started to feed my cham crickets for about 5 months or so

and i felt like cricket would be the borin food for her

so i bought some dubias for her. for a few days i brought up with a new food to her

she ate some of it. but she started to refuse to eat dubias after few days and

almost a week has passed, and she still not wanna eating

should i keep her hungry?

 

[Kath44]

How old is she? What are her temps like?
Try with the crickets again or locust, silkworms.
She may just not like roaches or she may be on hunger strike.
She may also be ready to lay eggs, if old enough etc.
kath.

 

[BrucenBruce]

My veiled girl showed no interest in dubias when I offered them either. She has since enjoyed a snack of calci-worms ... or at least, the calci-worm flies, which the container had several of!

She's packing on grams on a diet of primarily crickets, but I do plan to try her on a few other things from time to time, and find out what she likes! (And hopefully, get her to try new things - something it took me far too long to do!)

So I guess ... just don't give up, and good luck with her!

~Bruce

 

[misshissingroaches]

Dubias are a love it or hate it kind of bug.(not trying to sound full of my species) Madagascar hissing cockroaches are really a great feeder. And turkistan roaches can satisfy the pickyest of chams. Superworms are great too.

 

[fuzzhc]

Try placing them in a while bowl that's how I got mine interested. They tend to settle in corners so the bowl keeps them trying to get out which could draw interest

 

[ridgebax1]

My Veiled also shows little interest in Dubias. I think it is mostly because, like another poster responded, they tend to settle in corners and remain motionless thereby not appealing to the cham. There is one member here who made a roach feeding dish by gluing a stick into the center of a ceramic bowl. The Dubias would climb up and down the stick and attract more attention due to their movement. Even with that Omar could not have cared less. My panther Clouseau, ate some nymphs from a bowl but I have not tried feeding him them another time yet to see if he really likes them. Some people will free range them but I will not do that. I do not want escapees setting up housekeeping in the walls of my house. Even though they (and Turkistans) are tropical species and supposedly will not survive the cold temps in PA, I don't trust that at all. Roaches are an amazingly resilient insect. Some who free range will do so with only males but the problem with that is only the adults can be distinguished by their wings. Prior to the last molt, they all look alike. Turkistans are another option. They also do not climb, jump or fly. But they are wicked fast. Omar did eat these but it took him a couple days to do it.
Buying calciworms from a pet store (which is what I am assuming you did) is expensive and they often have adult flies in the containers. If you really want to use Calciworms, they are available from a seller on ebay; rainbowmealworms, is the seller ID. IMO they have the best, healthiest worms over any other seller with an extremely reasonable price, a little over $12 (including shipping) for 100 and it gets cheaper as the quatity increases. You can get 300 for under $21. I took delivery of 300 on 12/28 and just finished off the last of them this week. I also take them out of the material in which they are shipped. put them in a critter keeper and feed them various fruits and veggies. They grow to at least an inch in length and 1/4 inch in width.

 

[EmmaChams]

I wouldn't worry, chams have preferences when it comes to food, she may simply not like them. Both my boys will sometimes eat them but that's about 1 or 2 max, don't go crazy for them, they prefer locusts, morio worms, silkworms, calciworms and crickets.

 

[Kate]

Have you tried placing them on their backs as they wriggle more that way.