Silk Worms For Dinner.....Again

[NJTheLSM]

As a new Yemen Cham owner I'm still getting to grips with feeders....I've tried a number of different fare, brown crickets, silk worms, Dubia Roaches and Locusts in order to try and give him plenty of variation.......He has had a couple of the roaches, but pretty much ignores anything other than silk worms

Question to the forum please......Should I take a few days out from the worms and just use crickets and locusts to see I can break his hunger strike?

I'd like to give him as much variation as possible, but all he seems to want at present are the silk worms....

I also bought some him some Morio Worms, but they're 40mm long which could be the reason he's ignoring them?? I think they'll go to my chickens at this rate!

Any advise appreciated.....

 

[Deevo]

How old is your chameleon?

At first my cham would snap at silkworms before I could even set them down on a vine, now I haven't seen him eat one in a while.

Try not feeding for a day or two and then offer crickets or mealworms.

 

[camimom]

Theres nothing wrong with silks. just pricey bugs.

a couple users use silks as a primary bug of choice.

 

[NJTheLSM]

Thank you for your replies

After much research I bought him from a local reptile breeder just last week, he's around 5 inches long from snout to vent, and I was advised he's around 4-5 months old.

He's settled in well and thanks to advise from this forum on various topics, seems quite happy.....I'll stick with a variation of worms, roaches and crickets and see how it goes. Thank you for you feedback, updates to follow....

 

[kplatvoet]

If he likes silkworms - your best option is reading
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/pigglett79/763-silk-worm-rearing-breeding-part-1.html
I myself haven't gotten through a complete life cycle yet but I've had more luck with silkworms than with crickets-I have eggs-
I wouldn't completely cut off his silkworms they are good for him - if he was only eating wax or meal worms it might be different - or if he was older - I find with mine they like to mess with me- they pretend to like something until I buy a whole bunch and then they ignore them.

 

[sandrachameleon]

...Should I take a few days out from the worms and just use crickets and locusts to see I can break his hunger strike?....

a few days in a row of silkworms (if gutloaded) is fine. But you don't want to go a long time on only silkworms. So yes, stop offering silks for a few days until he's hungry enough to eat other options. then let silkworms back into the diet. He needs some chinton (think of it like fibre roughage for people) in his diet which the crickets will provide. and although you can gutload silkworms with a variety of things, crickets are even more easily gutloaded with even more things.