how to feed roaches

[nadine]

hello!

i used to feed dubia to our veiled cham girl, so i got a very nice colony started. i am trying to get my both little boys - the ambilobe is aprox. 3 month old, the faly about 6 month - getting to like them, without too much success

i put the roaches into a small metal dish, either next to a plant or hang it at the cage doors, what worked perfectly fine with the veiled. the ambilobe accepts them if he is "out of crickets" for a while (talking about hours, not days he is a eating machine...) but the faly could not care less. he is not the biggest eater anyway, likes his superworms and does ok on crickets, but is by far not as enthusiastic as the ambilobe boy.

how do you offer your dubia to your chams? maybe i am weird, but somehow it freaks me out having them move free in their enclosures

thanks
nadine

 

[chameleonkev]

I just leave mine free as I do with every feeder apart from calci worms, I like the fact that they have to hunt for there meal, it's more natural

 

[nadine]

... to put a little off-topic on top - we do have a bearded dragon, who is munching on the adult dubia as well (YUMMY!!!) but somehow, the dubias breed and grow way too fast no chance to feed the boys on those fat raoches yet, but i wonder if your grown-up panther males are able to feed on the adult roaches???

it is not too difficult to find the right size roaches, especially since they are not seem to be the favorite food, but i have a huge overload on grown roaches, and honestly start to wonder what to do with them.....

nadine

 

[chameleonkev]

My adult male and female all eat adult roaches without any problems, my male masoala ate a hissing cockroach the other day witch was huge!

 

[Nrupaw]

Here is what someone on the forum advised me - flip 'em on their back. The wriggling entices a feeding behavior.

It does work but it takes a lot of effort to flip every dubia. Also sometimes after all that work they flip themselves the right way up before the chameleon knows they are there.

I use a feeder cup.

 

[SUSE]

My Male and Female Vailed are stone blood killers they will pry off the Dubia's from the cage. it might take them 2-3 tries but the Chams always are able to eat them. The dubia's will hold on tight to the cage walls but the chams will yank at them with their tongue until the are pulled free and eaten.