Is he eating enough?

[teacherjenk]

I have a 3 month old male vailed. He is in a screen cage, he has UBV and UBA. His cage is staying about 72 -75 at the top and 68 at the bottom during the day. At night it drops a few degrees. He has lots of branches, vines and a green leaf plant to climb on. He gets misted often and the hold droplets of water on the leaves from the mister.
I am concerned because he doesn't seem to be eating much. I read some post here and on other pages that says they should eat 10-15 small crickets a day. I have 1/8 small crickets. He is only eating 4-8 a day. I am leaving the crickets in the cage for long periods of time but he doesn't seem to be interested. I have tried meal worms and he only will eat 1 maybe 2 if those. I dust all crickets with zoo med's reptivite vitamins. Is there anything i am missing ?

 

[nightanole]

They have growth spurts. You also should not go by amount, but weight of feeders. those pin heads you bought 3 weeks ago have quadrupled in weight since then.

You might be better off with just am and pm feedings, and removing the extras, if you are cup feeding.

I would also not dust every feeding with vitamins. Low dose calcium with D3 sure, but you can over do it on the vitamins. There is a dusting sched on the forum stickies.

 

[kinyonga]

There should be a basking area in the mid to low 80's F. If the chameleon is too cool it can't digest its food so it won't be hungry. It should be eating at least a dozen of the appropriate sized crickets a day...or equivalent of other insects.