Trobles with feeding

[MrElJohnny]

Hi! I have a baby chameleon, about a month and a week old. I got him from a pet shop and he had an injury under he's right eye that passed right through me. A few days after he stopped eating and i took him to a vet. It seems he had parasites and an infection on that injury.

After taking care of those problems he took an entire week to start eating again, but only if i give him. and so it is until today. He only eats when he's in my hand. I leave beatles and worms and crickets inside he's enclusure but he doesn't eat them. I have even seen a cricket walk over he's head and he does nothing...

A couple of days ago i went on a weekend out and left food for him to eat, when i got back the food was still there and he was skin and bone...

My question is:

Is it because he got really used to eat from my hand, or does he have a health issue?

 

[Psi]

I have a female cham that has a hard time eating on her own.
She has to get within a few inches of her prey otherwise she can't lock onto them to shoot her tongue.

Her previous owner I believe had too bright (or cfb) on her while she was growing up.

She's doing fine, but if I hand feed her, she'll walk all the way down to my hand, grab on, then target then eat it.

 

[MrElJohnny]

I get what you are saying, but mine doesn't eat from my hand, he eats on my hand. I have to take him out of the enclusure, grab him, and i have to put the larvae on a surface, normaly my legs, and he stays in my hand, just looking arround, when the larvae moves, he eats... but he only eats on these extact conditions...

 

[carol5208]

Have you tried cup feeding? Use a shallow cup and angle it so your cham can get to the prey. Attach it to a branch or vine. You can pull off the crickets legs (eek) so they can't jump out of the cup. Can your chameleon shoot its tongue ok from what you have seen?

 

[MrElJohnny]

Have you tried cup feeding? Use a shallow cup and angle it so your cham can get to the prey. Attach it to a branch or vine. You can pull off the crickets legs (eek) so they can't jump out of the cup. Can your chameleon shoot its tongue ok from what you have seen?

i tried cup feeding... and he doesn't shoot from too far... my fear is that the infection he had under he's eye made him see pourly?

 

[kinyonga]

Can you answer the questions in this thread please...try to be specific please...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/