not eating crikets, mealworms OK
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Pilotman800
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Do not get him hooked on mealworms. Some say that the shell is hard to digest and can cause impaction. There are also healthier alternatives.
There are some chameleons that don't like crickets. You can either hold your ground until he eats them, or you can offer other feeders. For example, some great other feeders would be locusts, phoenix worms, silkworms, and dubia roaches.
There are some chameleons that don't like crickets. You can either hold your ground until he eats them, or you can offer other feeders. For example, some great other feeders would be locusts, phoenix worms, silkworms, and dubia roaches.
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chameleoman
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ive been conducting my own studies on mealworms as a staple i read alot on them and crickets and have realized the mealworms are a bit fattier. but as long as you are gutloading them REALLY good like as in following sandrachameleons advice they should be fine in my studies the mealworms are loved by both my female and male veiled i have yet to see and constipation and they seem healthier more active but my male does get a bit dehydrated so i up the mistings. other than that i have yet to see and negative results in the staple of feeding mealworms
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DavidBuchan
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With feeding variety is the most important thing (in insects and gutloading). My male Veiled refused to eat crickets for a while but he was just being stubborn, and he's back to being pretty good about them now. I feed him a couple of mealworms a week, but as Pilotman800 said locusts, phoenix worms, silkworms, and dubia roaches are all better than mealworms.
No matter how good your gutloading is you need different feeders for a healthy Cham.
No matter how good your gutloading is you need different feeders for a healthy Cham.
danibug23
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honestly the worst mistake is giving them mealworms after my little female went on hunger strike and would only eat meal worms i threw them all out. no meal worms will enter the cage only for the other guys. mealworms are like chocolate for us. they are good but really bad for us and can't be the only thing we eat DavidBuchan and Pilotman800 already gave you a really good list of what he can eat for a stable feeder
danibug23
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no problem were here to help! for my misting i start an hour after they get up lights on at 8am lights off at 8pm so i start my misting 9 then mist again at 12 then finally at 3 , you don't want to mist at night so it will give some time to dry before they go to sleep so they won't get sick do you have a dripper going all day? and about flies I'm not really sure maybe someone else can
for my misting i start an hour after they get up lights on at 8am lights off at 8pm so i start my misting 9 then mist again at 12 then finally at 3 , you don't want to mist at night so it will give some time to dry before they go to sleep so they won't get sick do you have a dripper going all day? and about flies I'm not really sure maybe someone else can 
You've said in previous posts that your chameleon has a tongue issue...so how are you providing it with crickets? Have you made any changes to correct the tongue problem?
One more thing...it would be better if you would keep all the health issue posts about the same chameleon in the same thread so we realize that its an on-going problem.
BTW..is this the same chameleon you were trying to sell???
One more thing...it would be better if you would keep all the health issue posts about the same chameleon in the same thread so we realize that its an on-going problem.
BTW..is this the same chameleon you were trying to sell???
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DavidBuchan
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It's better to give them time to dry out before the lights go off and it gets colder. In the wild it sometimes rains at night of course, but in captivity they are more susceptible to respiratory infections so better safe than sorry.
An occasional wild caught blue bottle is a nice treat for a cham (but they are even harder to gutload than mealworms
). Always got to be wary of parasites and pesticides on wild caught insects, so don't feed too many........
sandrachameleon
Chameleon Enthusiast
nope. Mealworms are not adequate. They should make up 10% or less of your chameleons diet, IMHO.
You need to offer a variety of prey.
Likely your ambilobe WILL eat crickets, just not all the time.
