Can't get my juvenile veil to eat any fruits or veggies.

[Ashleyth87]

I have a juvenile veiled chameleon, male, his names Diego. I currently feed him between 6 and 12 crickets a day depending on size. I also give him a few horn worms and he gobbles them up. I know he needs more and I always offer a dish of various fruits and veggies also dried fruit flys and canned grasshoppers but he never touches I urging in the bowl. I thought, maybe it's because there isn't anything alive in there so started taking a few crickets and removing there legs to keep the dish moving. He just picks them out. Is this a phase? Will he be ok if he never eats fruits and veggies?

 

[alphakenc]

He is on that high protein bug diet since he is still a young chamy,maybe he will start eatting some vegetables n fruit once he get older n sick of eating bugs...in the meantime,gutload ur feeder so at least he can have some V8 juice from the bug that he eats.

 

[kinyonga]

You shouldn't be feeding him dead insects.
To get him started on greens, fruits and veggies, when his mouth is opening and shutting when he's eating stick a thin slice of apple between his teeth so he can taste it. This often gets them started. Make sure whatever you offer him is provided in a size/way he can eat it.