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Instead of water, try Gelatin instead. It would eliminate all the water that comes from the cube thawing out when placed in the insect enclosure.

Mine was the same way. He did the same thing with flies too. Loved dubia/flies for a while and now he won't touch them. As was mentioned above with the strawberries, the gut content changes the flavor, so you may have to play aorund with them. And i truly believe chams can sense what a feeder...

I find that when fruits/veggies are broken down into this form, they mold extremely quickly when placed in the insects' enclosure. So long as you remember to removed leftover food and change it out daily, you should be fine.

Crickets are just fine as a main feeder, so long as they're gut loaded. It could be worse; he could only be interested in eating mealworms which are bad. Periodically try different foods.

Ebay sells them. I also own turtles who eat them as well.

Snails are one of my 3 main feeders, and i have had great success and a healthy Jacksons because of it. His main 3 are Crickets, Superworms and snails. He occassionally eats butter worms, horn and silks but is not too fond of them. When he was younger he loved flies. Now he won't touch them...

I had a Veiled for approximately 7 years, and during those 7 years i NEVER saw him drink…not once. Now he was obvioulsy getting his hydration requirements met some how, or he would not have lived that long but my guess is that he was drinking minimally after i left, from the sprayed down leaves...

Not sure exactly, as i've never seen my snails actually mate. I would guess a few days to a week. Once they start breeding they go at it like rabbits and you'll soon be over run with snail babies!

They're as 'super' as you make them. You can gutload them as you would crickets. Plus they make a great way of getting calcium into your cham imo, as they keep calcium powder on themselves better than crickets. As for the original question; hold out for as long as it takes to get your cham to...

Warm weather's here. Take your chams outside.

Lots of snail babies hatching. My Jacksons is in for a feast.

Yep. You can feed them basically the same gutload items you feed to crickets. They seem to really love carrots and collard greens.

A few a week. Make sure you feed the worms carrots and/or a dark green leaf vegatable before giving it to your cham, and then dust it with plain calcium.

Calcium is water soluble. You cannot overdose on it. Whatever the chams body can't use/ doesn't want, will simply be passed in it's waste. It's the fat soluable supplements like Vitamin A and D that are the dangerous ones for chams.

Never fed them to a Veiled. My Jacksons usually eats them when their shell is no bigger than a dime. Anything bigger and he may have a hard time. Since a Veiled is larger, it may be able to handle a shell size of up to about the size of a quarter.

As Jacksjill said……i use a plastic spoon.

Yep. Lots of fresh food ( Dark green leafy veggies, carrots, cucumber and a cuttlebone) and just make sure the soil doesn't get too dry. Keep it damp, but not soggy. I keep my snails in a 10 gallon tank, with a screen top. Within a few weeks they'll lay eggs. I carefully scoop the eggs out and...

Sound like a calcium imbalance to me. Calcium is needed for muscular functions i.e his tongue. Had a cham several years ago that did the same thing. You need to get a good amount of calcium in him asap, and expose him to UV light, preferable natural sunlight. Even if it's cool outside; just 10...

Anymore bug buffet available?

I purchased my 'Helix snails' off ebay and bred them. Now i have a good supply as they multiply like rabbits under the right conditions. Do a search on the forum for 'snails'. Not sure on the nutritional value of flies. Also, cup feeding might be an issue. Mine love snails, super worms, etc...