Varied diet for Pygmy Chameleon

JRoseM

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I have a R. Temporalis pygmy chameleon. I have only been feeding her crickets. What else can i feed her so she has a more varied diet?
Waxworms?
Silkworks?
Roach nymphs?
And can she eat vegetables?
 

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It can be difficult to vary the diet of smaller chams but there are definitely lots of options. Here's a few commonly available feeders that can add diversity to your chams diet.
Small silkworms
Roach nymphs
Hatchling mantids
House flies
Fruit flies
Isopods
Bean beetles

Edit: although some larger species will eat fruits or vegetables on occasion, pygmies are strictly insectivores.
 
I have used baby horns, baby silks, little butters, and baby mantids to vary of my pygs' diets. My adults have never shown any interest in fruit flies - they're just too small. I don't really like isopods because I had a pyg that shot one on the belly I guess (must have flipped itself over) and the bug then rolled up trapping the tongue so I found the pyg just sitting there with the isopod in its mouth because he couldn't swallow it. I had to gently crush the bug to release his tongue. May have just been a one time freak coincidence that it happened that way but I don't use them any more.
 
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