Introducing worms into the diet

[lisamariaaa]

I tried to feed my 5 month old panther chameleon worms, but he wants nothing to do with them. I would really like to add variety in his diet, but he only wants crickets. What is the best way to get him to try other things?

 

[camimom]

just keep offering it. what worm are you trying to feed>

 

[mcbdz]

Try only giving the new item and make sure it is really wiggly. I just got Zeke eating silks by putting one first thing in the morning in front of him and it dangled by its thread. He watched it for several minutes wiggling and then grabbed it. Now he eats them off the vine. No luck with the phenix worms yet. They can't climb his hwys so he's pickier out of the cup.

 

[lisamariaaa]

I tried with meal worms, but he wasn't interested. Then I bought a couple silk worms and he just kinda looked at them and lost interest really quickly.

 

[lisamariaaa]

He did it! I had it crawl on the sides of the enclosure where he was looking. He got interested after a while and Bam! He did kinda look confused once it was in his mouth though. He just kinda looked at me and then back at the worm half-way out of his mouth. Such a cutie!