My Veiled Chameleon is not eating !

[Redeyes1218]

I adopted an 11 month old female veiled chameleon in October. They were feeding her about 40 crickets a week to her (which I read is no enough after research; I am new to the chameleon world and did hours of research on caring for them).

After having her for 3 almost 4 moths I noticed she isn't eating (she usually is a hungry, hungry girl!) I used to buy a variety of bugs like tomato worms (treats), meal worms, crickets, roaches etc., but lately I have been giving her meal worms and crickets. She has hardly eaten the last month and I have not changed her environment nor tried touching her (she was not handled and isn't very friendly).

I read about them laying eggs around 12 months of age (which she is 14-15 months now). I have a potted plant in her cage which I haven’t noticed any digging, but she did change her sleeping spot after 2 months (could be normal lol).

I keep a red heat lamp on at night (for the cold winter nights) and try to keep the humidly up as much as I can (usually around 30-50% we have a fire place that dries up the house). Is there anything I can do to coax her into eating or try new food for her?

(Also, I have two ball pythons. One refuse to eat in the winter, and the other can eat her portion and his lol. Not sure if they also can refuse food in the winter/ cold months)

 

[spaghetticode]

That's interesting, a very similar thing is happening here. My chameleon stopped eating its daily crickets right about when winter started on the calendar. It's been now a month he's not eating much, during the last weeks he's eaten just a few flour worms and quite a lot of the pothos plant foliage.

I'm really interested in seeing what others will answer to your post.

 

[happy]

Please take a look at www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/. it will help

turn off the heat light at night, they dont need it. its safe to drop room temp in your house with veiled chameleons, if you keep the temp up during the day.

it does sound like she could be ready to lay eggs, please post images, please answer questions outlined in how to ask for help. it helps others help you.

please also look at https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/veiled/, may give you some ideas or hints to help better care for her.