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sandrachameleon
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Typically people reduce feeding when the animal is essentially adult size and no longer growing fast, thus no longer needing as much food.
It is not necessary to ever switch to every second day feeding. What is important is that he gets enough to eat, but not TOO much. This can be achieved by simply not feeding as much daily, feeding every other day, or some other "schedule". My adult animals eat 4-6 days a week. Sometimes they get fed every day, small quantities, for two or three weeks running before I skip a day.
It is not necessary to ever switch to every second day feeding. What is important is that he gets enough to eat, but not TOO much. This can be achieved by simply not feeding as much daily, feeding every other day, or some other "schedule". My adult animals eat 4-6 days a week. Sometimes they get fed every day, small quantities, for two or three weeks running before I skip a day.
sandrachameleon
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OOPPSS! Am I doing something wrong then by feeding him everyday?He's a 4-6 month old male veiled...I've had him almost a week & he eats 5-10 a day
no, you are fine. feeding often when young in growing is fine
adams86
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sandrachameleon
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depends on the size of the crickets - and on the chameleons age. Sounds like he's not yet a year old? In which case he'll still need a fair bit of food. Though perhaps not 20 large crickets daily.
I do hope you are giving him more than just crickets to eat. I recommend a wide variety of well gutloaded prey
sandrachameleon
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he is not a year old yet and a feed him mealworms once in a while, and im sorry i ment 10 not 20
10 large crickets plus a few Mealworms on occassion are fine, in terms of quantity, for an animal under a year old. You could start reducing a little towards 5-8 per day now as he approaches that one year mark. Keeping an eye on his body condition, weight etc.
But I hope you will please consider adding some variety to his diet. Its best to aim for at least five different choices, such that you try to have no single feeder makes up more than 20% of his diet. Certainly no single feeder type should make up more than 50%. (sounds like right now crickets are like 90% of your animals diet).
Consider adding some (or all) of these in: silkworms, butterworms, cultured blue bottle flies, terrestrial isopods, indian walking sticks, hornworms, termites, superworms, locust/grasshoppers (not lubbers), cicada, ....
more info:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/74-feeders.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/171-where-buy-feeders-online.html
Swayne8998
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I feed my guy every other day with an equivalent of 15 large crickets. He's a year old. The guys I got him from fed him 3 adult dubias every other day to every 2 to 3 days...
Thank you for all of this information it was very helpfull
