Chameleons refuse to eat anything but crickets

[crashingempire]

I have to graceful chameleons that I'm nursing back to health. They both absolutely love eating crickets, but I would like to add some variety to their diet. I introduced them to waxworms and mealworms, but for some reason they just show no interest. I have tried putting the worms in a dish, using feeding tongs, and even setting them on the vine in front of each chameleon. But for some reason, they would rather just stick to the crickets. I have no idea if I am doing something wrong or not. What else should I try doing? Is there another type of food that I should use?

One is a male, and the other a female. They both were wild-caught.
I have them in separate screened enclosures, each about 4 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. There's plenty of plants and vines. Each have a 125W Solar Glo bulb that provides UVB and UVA. I mist a least twice a day, and have a dripper on each terrarium.

 

[arnau666]

mine didnt like so much the crickets,he would eat only mealworms!i stoped giving meals and eventualy he ate crickets!stop feeding them 1 day and introduce other bugs or worms!you should try roaches and see how it goes!

 

[crashingempire]

I'll definitely have to try that! Thank you so much!

 

[chameleonkev]

I wouldn't use wax worms, there fatty and don't really do your chameleon much good. If you want to use worms try silk worms or calciworms instead witch are much better for a chameleon, I would also try dubi roaches

 

[ZuggieTheCham]

They can be fussy sometimes cant they!! Zuggie totally went off his crickets would not touch them would just eat a few mealworms n locust then i introduced silkworms and he loved them!!! Hes well into his worms then after around a week of giving him worms and a few locust i put a few crickets in there and i think he forgot that he was on a cricket strike and munched the lot!! Now hes back on then with his silkworms too and few mealworms here and there and got some green banana roaches for treats theres all sorts u can try out but for a main feeder like ur crickets id replace with silkworms or just try them as most chams love them i think they very juicy

 

[Trillian]

I think sometimes the WC ones like flying insects too, so you could try them with a couple of bluebottles/houseflies, or moths, butterflies, craneflies etc?

 

[jaglon53]

I seem to usually have the opposite happen were they wont eat crickets. This really isnt a problem because you can gutload crickets so easily and crickets are very easy to acquire for cham owners. Have you tried superworms? They move a lot which will usually get your chams interest to try one. I find that with supers, chams tend to get stuck on just eating them and not crickets. I guess its a double edged sword I dont know.