Crested Gecko Diet for Chameleons?

[VeiledOwner87]

on repashy's package, it states that it is for all fruit eating lizards (including chameleons), has anyone ever fed this to their chameleons? or have you ever used the powder to gut load your crickets. if so, how's the outcome, does it change anything to your supplimenting schedual?

please advise me, and thanks in advance

 

[lisa h]

I wasn't aware that chameleons were fruit eating. Some veileds nibble on plants, veggies and fruits, but I think the description on the package is just a wee bit of a stretch.

 

[Syn]

Well it is crested gecko diet, not chameleon diet... CGD is formulated for, well, crested geckos and their New Caledonian counterparts.
You can try gutloading crickets with it, but I don't see why your veiled would want to eat any of it mixed.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

I wasn't aware that chameleons were fruit eating. Some veileds nibble on plants, veggies and fruits, but I think the description on the package is just a wee bit of a stretch.

obviously it would be a once in a while food, not a staple diet. i dont think its a stretch as it could be given to any animal that eats fruit. it is mainly for crested geckos, but there is a list of animals that it could be given too, its all natural forumlated so i dont see the harm of it. i just want input if anyone has ever used it with theirs

Well it is crested gecko diet, not chameleon diet... CGD is formulated for, well, crested geckos and their New Caledonian counterparts.
You can try gutloading crickets with it, but I don't see why your veiled would want to eat any of it mixed.

thanks syn... my gf's veiled actually loved it and would eat it out of a spoon.

 

[Syn]

thanks syn... my gf's veiled actually loved it and would eat it out of a spoon.

It would be really neat to see that. Please get a video or picture of it if you could.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

It would be really neat to see that. Please get a video or picture of it if you could.

i realy wish i could, but our maui went to heaven a little over a month ago i miss her

 

[Syn]

i realy wish i could, but our maui went to heaven a little over a month ago i miss her

Oh.. I'm sorry for your loss. She must have been really sweet.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

one of a kind, sweetest veiled ever. we deffinatly learned a ton of dos and donts with her though, just wish it wasnt her shes buried in my back yard. thank you though syn. means alot.

it was so cute, she would just dig her face in the spoon and lick it up with her toung, she'd have repashy all over her mouth, we would have to wipe her off witha tissue haha, bless her.

but if i can some how get my mean kiwi to eat some, i will deffinatly make a vid for you

 

[lisa h]

Sorry, I was being sarcastic in my first post. I know that some veileds eat fruit, but I guess I'm wondering why one would feed repashy instead of fresh fruit. I mean, you can, but why would you want to? I'm probably coming off as sounding mean, and I'm not. I'm interested in knowing.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

no lisa, dont be silly. its a question that would have most people asking why. my debate and wonder is, why give fresh fruits of maybe one or two different kinds in one feeding, when, if your chameleon likes it, give them the nutrients and vitamins of many, once or twice a week. the forumula makes a crested gecko super healthy and stable, i believe it could and would boost up a chameleons health as well.

my only concern og giving too much would cause constipation or impaction of some sort. i have no idea how much different a geckos digestion is from a chameleon. if all reptiles are the same though, than i would say you are golden.

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

I use crested gecko diet to gutload house flies.

 

[fluxlizard]

I guess I'm wondering why one would feed repashy instead of fresh fruit. I mean, you can, but why would you want to? I'm probably coming off as sounding mean, and I'm not. I'm interested in knowing.

I don't know about chameleons- it's a runny semi-liquid diet and I can't imagine how you could offer it to chameleons without making a mess (drip system of it? LOL)

But with the geckos- it is a complete diet. Nothing else is necessary. I produced many many baby cresteds (and gargoyles) on this diet alone, and grew weee tiny babies to adulthood hatched from mommies fed this diet who in turn produced more nice eggs and wee tiny babies.

It's super easy to offer, stores easily before use, and is nutritionally complete.

Fresh fruit is none of those things. You have to supplement with vitamins and insects. Plus the geckos don't like fresh fruit anyway- they prefer rotten.

 

[Syn]

I don't know about chameleons- it's a runny semi-liquid diet and I can't imagine how you could offer it to chameleons without making a mess (drip system of it? LOL)

You can fix that by adding less water, and by the instructions you are adding too much water - it's supposed to be a milkshake consistency - you may not be giving them the right nutrition... though that may only be the two part diet I am thinking of.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

I use crested gecko diet to gutload house flies.

interesting, are these WC houseflies? a question i've wondered is, is it possible to gut load a WC housefly to take out all the junk its been around?

You can fix that by adding less water, and by the instructions you are adding too much water - it's supposed to be a milkshake consistency - you may not be giving them the right nutrition... though that may only be the two part diet I am thinking of.

hey syn, you are right, it is supposed to be a milkshake consistancy, for this consistancy, it will thicken as time goes on, but yes, add less water or add more mix. give or take.

the part 2 CGD is the flavor inhancer to train picky eating geckos onto the repashy, Part 1 is where it is all that. to use part 2 it must be a combination with part 1, other wise it will give the gecko nothing. what i use is just part 1.

 

[VeiledOwner87]

I don't know about chameleons- it's a runny semi-liquid diet and I can't imagine how you could offer it to chameleons without making a mess (drip system of it? LOL)

thats a disaster waiting to happen my friend! lolol geeze i would love to see repashy trying to squeeze through a dripper tube or hole
*plop .. plop..plop..* haha

like i posted before, we got my girlfriend's veiled to eat from a spoon! lol it was a mess though.. on her face that is.

 

[fluxlizard]

You can fix that by adding less water, and by the instructions you are adding too much water - it's supposed to be a milkshake consistency - you may not be giving them the right nutrition... though that may only be the two part diet I am thinking of.

Maybe I make my milkshakes too runny too LOL can't you suck your milkshakes through a straw? LOL

I no longer keep cresteds - sold them off a few years ago. But they were getting adequate nutrition- like I said, I produced hundreds of babies and grew a number of hold backs from baby to breeding adult producing babies on the diet.

I must be thinking of a different brand of diet though so maybe I am confused- when I kept them the diet was not a two part - it was a powder you added water to.

But more water to a mix does not necessarily mean less nutrition FYI- it just means less nutrition per volume, but if an animal needs more nutrition it just has to take in more volume (which it will do), and if the extra volume is water, is no big deal- within reason of course- you can't ask it to guzzle down 10x what it normally would within 24 hours to get the nutrition it needs, but 2x is no problem for most I would think. The extra water just goes right through...

 

[ruru]

i have retile-life crested gecko food they are in little round dry pellets i gutload my crickets with it && sprinkle it on fresh fruit & veggis that the chameleons eat...if i set a plate of fresh fruits && veggis in my veileds cage it will be gone within hours lol they love it!! the nutrion facts for the reptil-life crested gecko food looks healthy & has kind of the same things chams need but im not an expert at all on this here is what the guaranteed analysis on the bottle say.
crude protein(min)22%,crude fat/oil (min) 6% crude fiber (max) 1% moisture (max) 10% ash (max) 9% vitamin A (min) 19,000 iu/kg, vitamin D3 (min) 800 iu/kg, vitamin E (min) 200 iu/kg, copper (min) 10 mg/kg.


and the ingredients consist of:
corn, tomato pumis, chicken meal, corln glutten meal, fructose, fish meal, poultry fat, soybean oil, grape seed oil, fish oil, coconut oil, l-lysine, DL methionine, salt, yeast, yeast extract, calcium carbonate, kelp meal, spirulina algae, marigold extract, canthaxanthin, dicalcuim phosphate, lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product dehydrated, streptocococcus faecium fermentation product dehydrated, dried bacillus sbutilis fermentaion extract, saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product dehydrated, choline chloride, natural & artificial flavors, vitamin E supplement, calcium L-ascorbyle-2-monophospate (stablized vitamin C), ferrous sulfate biotin, yucca shcidiger extract, zinc oxide,manganous oxide, niacinamide, vitamin B12 supplement, mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, vitamin A acetate, beta carotene, calcium pantothenate, sodium selenite, folic acid ,riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine monoitrate, menadione sodium bisulfate complex (source of vitamin K3) vitamin D3 supplement, cobalt sulfate.


anything in all that sound bad to you guys?