Cup feeding suggestions please

[Kali]

My 2.5 month female panther (just had her first shed today!) is driving me crazy by not taking to cup-feeding.

I have the cup just below her basking perch. I know she likes to hunt but I'm afraid her enclosure is too large for her to get enough, plus I don't want crickets to attack her at night.

I currently have her in the smallest ZooMed screen cage. I've put hornworms, mealworms and wax worms in at separate times and she hasn't taken to them.

Any tips on how I can make sure she is getting enough food?

 

[Fastedmclintock]

You can try and build something like this with screening so your crickets and worms can crawl around on the screen, hopefullly seeming more enticing then food just at the bottom of the cup!

 

[meleondollars]

For clarification purposes, have you tried crickets in a feeding cup. You mentioned you dont want them to attack your cham at night, does that mean you re not using them at all? My cham is not a fan of other feeders in the cup besides crickets either.

 

[Jamelon]

how big is the enclosure? I agree with fasted, i built one of those, but on a smaller scale for when i had my cham. She was about 2.5-3 months when she started cup feeding. But eventually all i did was hold a cup for her to eat out of because i was too lazy to keep taking out the cup and putting it back in. She eventually learned what the cup was for so i would shake the cup infront of the cage and she would come running to the front . Just give it time, how long have you been trying?