freeze dried feeding methods

[budthecham]

all i have seen as feeders at pet stores are crickets, mealworms, superworms, fruit flys, and pinkys. i have seena lot of freeze dried options as food goes. but how can you feed a cham a freezr dried food if they will only eat moving alive things?


i have seen the vibrator dish but that is more of a ground species. what about chams

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Live only.

-Brad

 

[Kent67]

Hmm, interesting idea. I've always believed grasshoppers to be a great source of nutrition. In the old days we used to order live grasshoppers by mail but that is not an option anymore. Hopefully I'll be able to find the time to go out and catch some this season, but the pet store offers cans of freeze dried grasshoppers...hmmm. I've never tried any of those types of products solely because I don't know anyone who uses them for any type of reptile. If they were truly as nutritious as they claim, and sanitary, they might be a good addition to a chameleon's diet. You'd have to manually sneak one into the chameleon's mouth as it was swallowing something else because chams just won't go for anything but live foods on their own. If anyone tries it, let us know your results

 

[dj special k]

Perhaps you can try attaching a string to the freezedried grasshopper so that when your cham eats, it'll come off of the grasshopper. To get my cham used to eating fruits, i had to attach it to a string so it looks like it was moving. After that, once he saw those types of fruits in his cage, he knows what it is and i didn't have to do that anymore, all i had to do was lay it on a branch and he'd go right up to it to eat it. Hmm.. .if you cupfeed your cham, maybe you'r cham would recognize that anything in his cup is food and go for it.

 

[budthecham]

good point w/ the cup feeding and him recognizing it is always food in there. where do you guys find silks and waxworms and all of the other insects. all i can find are the ones i listed. cricks, superworms, and pinky

 

[dj special k]

some reptile stores or pet stores might carry silk worms but kind of expensive. I used to buy like 12-20 silkworms in a pod with food for 12 bucks at the store until i started buying them online. They're a lot cheaper and most pet stores buy them from the same company too. there's a few online that i don't want to just single out one and leave the rest. But I order from Mulberryfarms.com and coastalsilkworms. You can order from eggs to full sized ready to spin their cocoon w/in a week. So... yeah. haha.