BuddyBowser
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Hey guys! I have a male veiled chameleon, roughly 6 months old, give or take. From when I got him, he was always really easy to hand feed. I would just dangle crickets in front of him and he'd go for it, sometimes from the back of the cage he'd see them and come all the way to the front. It was really easy feeding him. However, about a month or so ago, he just up and changed this behavior. He rarely, if ever, eats when I hand feed him (the only thing he'll really eat that i dangle in front of him are waxworms and hornworms). I used to be able to hand feed crickets, but since he won't take them handfed, i've been letting them free-roam, however, I see some crickets the next day still roaming around. Every now and then I'll catch him eat one, but for the most part he'll just sit and watch them walk around all around him, even on him. I was ignorant the first month I had him and totally forgot the UVB light for his cage. But I got one not too long ago. I also got him a zoomed reptarium new cage for him about a week and a half ago, I have a live pothos, some sticks I found outback and baked in the oven and cleaned, some fake vines and fake pothos leaves. I have a make-shift dripping system to drip on the leaves, and I mist the reptarium 2-3 times daily. I also gut load my crickets, dust them with calcium about once a week. I'm just worried he's given up on crickets for good and will only eat the real fatty treats like waxworms and hornworms(which I actually heard aren't bad for reptiles, but I don't want them to be his only diet). Any help would be great.