Eating plants but no bugs

[Steveomanning]

My 7 month old male veiled is eating his plant and drinking plenty of water but seems generally uninterested in his bugs. He will take all the wax worms we will give or a couple roaches but for the most part is kinda ignoring his bugs. We did switch him into a bigger cage 2 weeks ago so I'm not sure if he's still adjusting to that or if he is just holding out for us to keep giving him wax worms. Any thoughts?

 

[Chameleon Creator]

Perhaps he is a vegetarian lol.
Stop with the waxworms, they should only be used on a rare occasion, they offer little nutritional value and very high in fat, they can cause many health issues.
Some chameleon will stop cup feeding after a while because it's boring to them. Try to free range some crickets or blue bottle flies and more than likely he will go nuts.
They do go on hunger strikes when they eat something they really enjoy, they are like children, why would they want to eat their spinach after they just had a cookie? I would try to feed a super worm if he will not eat anything else, or perhaps try reptiworms.
My Cham loves reptiworms like they are treats, but they offer great nutritional value.

 

[Steveomanning]

As a man who loves eating meat I would be so disappointed if my little guy was a vegetarian. I've been trying to get him of the wax worms but my girlfriend is such a softy and always gives in and gives them to him when he does these little hunger strikes. I left him some roaches in a cup this morning which he didn't eat yesterday so I'm hoping he is hungry enough to just go eat them. Where do you buy blue bottle flies? I have never used those before.

 

[Chameleon Creator]

Mantisplace.com sells blue bottle flies I believe.
But seriously watch the waxworms, too many can end up causing permanent internal damage.
My chameleon loved Dubia roaches when I first got him, he would eat them everyday. He got tired of them and refused to eat them. Now he loves crickets, throw some in his cage and he goes crazy hunting them down; it's fun for them, new and exciting.
You will always need a variety of feeders to rotate as they always tend to become bored of the same feeder. Reptiworms and crickets I order from ghanns crickets. Excellent quality of both, I was impressed. Mine still won't eat Dubia right now, so I'm just taking advantage of that and colonizing my roaches.

 

[Steveomanning]

I'm gonna throw out our wax worms. I'm gonna order some flies tonight. Do blue bottle flies fly or are they like the flightless fruit flies? What type of worm would you suggest other than the reptiworms we had been giving him phoenix worms which I think are they same thing just a different brand but he refuses to touch those guys. He is big enough for super worms yet. Any thoughts on silks?

 

[werecat]

Blue bottle flies do fly. This thread should answer all of your bb fly questions and more!

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blue-bottle-flies-22254/

Also, your reptiworms will turn into flies if you leave them long enough (also flying flies).

Silks are great. Very good nutrition compared to other worms. My guy goes nuts for them!

I think small supers might be ok for your guy at his age, but wait for someone else to confirm since I don't have experience with juveniles. However, supers are usually considered a treat since they are also high in fat/low in nutrition.

 

[Chameleon Creator]

You can feed supers as long as the length of the super does not exceed the length of the chams head