Carpet Cham Won't Eat Dubia

[JLP474]

Anyone else experience this? Picked up 100 small Dubia for my Carpet(male) and he just stares at them with a body language like he wants to try it but not sure lol...he'll eat crickets no prob...have them in different feeding cups...any tricks to get em to eat Dubia?

 

[nightanole]

Mine wouldnt eat them till he was an adult and was out of the cricket vacuum stage.

I would get a small concave bowl and put a mix of feeders in it. They will all bunch together in the middle. maybe a few accidental zaps will trigger "this is food" in his little brain. Mine still refuses to see green bugs as food, kattydids, green banana roaches, nope, thats a piece of veg, you cant fool me.

 

[JLP474]

I even tried putting 1 cricket in with 5 small Dubia...I never seen him so determined, ran up the vine to get that cricket...then sat there staring t them...hes usually good for 2 crickets back to back...too funny...maybe I can try dusting the Dubia, so they "look" sorta like same color as crickets lol

 

[Remkon]

Both my chams are picky about dubia... my panther takes only small ones and my jax only eats em by accident... Most luck i had with mixing feeders 50/50 crickets/dubia.

 

[Peachypink]

I use a feeder cup that is open in the front with a screen or just a roughed up back so that the dubia climb up. Makes them more visible and active and in turn makes them more attractive. You could also try hand feeding and holding it by a leg so that it kinda kicks around.

 

[JLP474]

I use a feeder cup that is open in the front with a screen or just a roughed up back so that the dubia climb up. Makes them more visible and active and in turn makes them more attractive. You could also try hand feeding and holding it by a leg so that it kinda kicks around.

I have 3 of those I made across the back and then 2 random cups mixed in with all the foliage...hes a small carpet in a big enclosure...lotta places to him to stop n grab a bite to eat lol

 

[Remkon]

completely off topic but from what I cam see of the enclosure it looks really good! Lots of paths and lots of vegetation.

I'd love to see a full overview picture.

 

[Peachypink]

I have 3 of those I made across the back and then 2 random cups mixed in with all the foliage...hes a small carpet in a big enclosure...lotta places to him to stop n grab a bite to eat lol

I've also found that making them a contrasting color from the Dubia helps too. Screens are dark and so are the dubia. I see that you have white containers, I used a milk jug and instead of adding screen I just roughed up the inside where the screen would go with a box cutter. Now when they climb, he sees it very well.

 

[JLP474]

I've also found that making them a contrasting color from the Dubia helps too. Screens are dark and so are the dubia. I see that you have white containers, I used a milk jug and instead of adding screen I just roughed up the inside where the screen would go with a box cutter. Now when they climb, he sees it very well.

Right now I've been keeping the Dubia in that round deli container in the upper left, it literally hangs 3" below that triangulated branch I made...when hes over there he def sees them and even starts to get that "I'm about to eat" wiggle but then nothing lol.

 

[JLP474]

completely off topic but from what I cam see of the enclosure it looks really good! Lots of paths and lots of vegetation.

I'd love to see a full overview picture.

Thanks, heres the full view...Fully automated..lights and mistking with timers.

Screen is giving off a glare

 

[JLP474]

Got him to eat his first Dubia...I took the largest one of the bunch and grabbed it by the edge with the feeder tweezers...again at first wanted nothing to do with it...but then I turned it upside down exposing the light color of its belly and wiggling legs...that tongue whipped out real quick and snagged it...had himself a nice treat...now if i could just get him to eat the ones in his one feeder...the same 4 are still in there moving around since before this thread lol.

 

[Peachypink]

Got him to eat his first Dubia...I took the largest one of the bunch and grabbed it by the edge with the feeder tweezers...again at first wanted nothing to do with it...but then I turned it upside down exposing the light color of its belly and wiggling legs...that tongue whipped out real quick and snagged it...had himself a nice treat...now if i could just get him to eat the ones in his one feeder...the same 4 are still in there moving around since before this thread lol.

I would change them out for fresh ones. They get really papery after a day or so. Maybe now that he's had a taste he will like them more. Or you may have to just hand feed them to him for a while.