Please help! Veiled Chameleon has refused food and always in the dark.

[Ghostbirb]

How much do you feed your female chams? And how often?

Usually by a year old we feed our girls 3-5 appropriately sized bugs every 2-3 days.
For example I feed my girl Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays!

 

[Alex7383]

Okay, just confused because people on here say it's female but on a Facebook group say it's a male. Thanks, by the way!

 

[Ghostbirb]

Okay, just confused because people on here say it's female but on a Facebook group say it's a male. Thanks, by the way!

I’m going to also place my vote on female
I don’t see any major tarsal spurs and those are some very female patterns!

 

[Alex7383]

 

[kinyonga]

Can they lay eggs without a male, like are they parthenogenetic?

Not through parthenogenesis. The eggs are infertile.

 

[kinyonga]

How much do you feed your female chams? And how often? So the less or more they eat, the less likely they are to lay eggs?

The amount they eat and the temperature both play a part in how many eggs they will lay or even whether they will lay eggs or not.

 

[Alex7383]

Update on this, the cham doesn't want to hunt prey itself and wants to be tong fed. What do I do to try and give the instinct of hunting back?

 

[MissSkittles]

Update on this, the cham doesn't want to hunt prey itself and wants to be tong fed. What do I do to try and give the instinct of hunting back?

Using tongs is too risky. Many chameleons have had serious injury to their tongues or even lost the whole thing to tong feeding. I suggest using a feeding station. I like/use the shooting gallery. https://tkchameleons.com/products/shooting-gallery?variant=30018608595032 I’ve also made my own substitute from food containers. There’s also full throttle feeders. https://www.fullthrottlefeeders.com/ Lunch logs https://sunsetchameleons.com/product/chameleon-feeder/ and a few different styles on Etsy. My chams seem to like knowing where their food will be and often I find them looking inside to see if a tasty snack materialized. When they see me, they run to their feeding stations. For fun treats, I give them bsfl which has pupated into flies, and they seem to enjoy hunting them down.

 

[Alex7383]

Okay thanks. I'll try to buy the 2nd or 3rd one you showed me.