He will only eat hornworms

HUBSonDUBS

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I have a 1.5 year old panther and he got in a bad habit of only eating horn worms. So I completely stopped giving him them, I offered him crickets, Phoenix and super worms but he won’t touch them. He got week about a month ago and was shutting his eyes so brought him into the vet. She gave me palm oil some eye drops and a injections to give him which has done wonders he acts back to normal and a complete turn around but still will not touch his other food even after a week of not eating. I would force feed him supplement through a syringe to keep him from getting week but as soon as I put a horn worm in he eats it. I don’t want to keep force feeding him and I want to get him off the horn worms what else can I do?
 
Well, you might want to start weaning him off the hornworms. If you cut them off altogether, then he will just continue to refuse to eat anything other than hornworms. Maybe put some crickets/roaches/superworms in the same dish as maybe one hornworm and see what happens after that. That is one method that I would probably try. If anyone else has other suggestions, I would try most of them and see which one works best.
 
Pupate the hornworms into moths, pupate anything you can, like bsfl, or silkworms. Chameleons that have a hard time accepting other food items usually have a hard time turning down flying insects.
 
I think something else is wrong, a chameleon won't starve itself to death. Heck when I want mine to eat dubia I just hold out till they eat them, and they always do eventually.
 
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