Crix eating my Silkworms!

[m1ndless]

Ever since I got my chameleon, he would never cup feed, so I just let crix free roam. I recently decided to get some silkworms for him (1/4") and put a few in there on the branch by my cham to see if he would eat them, but I noticed my crix snatch them and eat them!

The silkies were in there for only like 10 minutes before the crix snatched them, how do I stop this?

What should I do?

 

[nightcrawler]

give him the silks first, then throw the crix in. you can even try hand feeding the silks so he will like you.

 

[Julirs]

Wow-I have never had a cricket go after or eat a silkworm. Are you feeding your crickets?

 

[m1ndless]

Yeah, I am feeding the crix.

I would put the silkies in first, but he does not eat in front of me, and I don't have all day to sit and wait for him to eat all his silkies to wait to put the crix in.

I gutload them 1-2 days before feeding them to my cham. I have ~500 in a tub in my storage, with food/water (flukers cubes and a mix of greens/veggies).

I have a small cricket keeper, I pull out ~20 crix and keep those in my room for feeding, where I gutload again using collard greens, carrots, and flukers cubes.

I might try to cupfeed the crix, and let the silkies just crawl around, but I am not sure if my cham will cup feed?

 

[nightcrawler]

you can do silk days and crix days. all of one thing per day untill he starts to feed from your hand. if you want him to feed from your hand try waxworms every sunday or so.

 

[sipos624]

I put a baby carrot on the inside of my cage and a thumbtack pinning it from the outside to avoid crix getting hungry and chomping on thing they shouldn't.
-Mike

 

[m1ndless]

you can do silk days and crix days. all of one thing per day untill he starts to feed from your hand. if you want him to feed from your hand try waxworms every sunday or so.

My cham does not eat all the cirx I put in there daily, and I can't always find them at night to take them out, I don't know where, but they hide somewhere, I sometimes wake up and fine 1-2 crix in there, but not everyday.

 

[m1ndless]

I was thinking, if the crix are eating my silkies, why even bother? My cham is still getting the silkie either way, right?

I tried to cup feed today, he hasn't ate yet.