Is this a good feeding schedule??

[Kaylatuffy]

Hello, I'm hoping to get a female 2-4 month old panther chameleon..Would this be a good feeding schedule ??

Monday: 10+ crickets / multivitamins
Tuesday:10+ Crickets w/ Calcium & vitamin D3
Wednesday: 8+ crickets + 5 Phoenix worms
Thursday: 6+ crickets + 5 mealworms
Friday: 5+ crickets + 2 wax worms
Saturday: 10+ crickets w/ Calcium & vitamin D3
Sunday: 2 wax worms + 8 mealworms

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Ps. do i absolutely need to mist EVERY day?

 

[kinyonga]

No...it's not.
It's recommended that you dust the insects just before feeding them to the chameleon at almost every feeding with a phosphorus-free calcium powder...twice a month with a phosphorus-free calcium/D3 powder and twice a month with a vitamin powder. It's also important that you feed/gutload the insects well. Crickets, locusts, roaches, superworms can be fed a wide assortment of greens and veggies and Avery small amount of appropriate fruits. Do a search to find the list.
A hatchlings should be fed as many appropriately sized insects as it can eat in a couple if minutes at each feeding and this can continue for several months. Then you cut back the feedings to every second day and continue feeding the same way. Once it's sexually mature a female needs to be on a diet if you don't intend to breed her and even if you do you have to watch her diet. They produce eggs without having mated and will produce large clutches, may develop MBD and prolapse and become eggbound if constantly overfeed.

 

[Kaylatuffy]

No...it's not.
It's recommended that you dust the insects just before feeding them to the chameleon at almost every feeding with a phosphorus-free calcium powder...twice a month with a phosphorus-free calcium/D3 powder and twice a month with a vitamin powder. It's also important that you feed/gutload the insects well. Crickets, locusts, roaches, superworms can be fed a wide assortment of greens and veggies and Avery small amount of appropriate fruits. Do a search to find the list.
A hatchlings should be fed as many appropriately sized insects as it can eat in a couple if minutes at each feeding and this can continue for several months. Then you cut back the feedings to every second day and continue feeding the same way. Once it's sexually mature a female needs to be on a diet if you don't intend to breed her and even if you do you have to watch her diet. They produce eggs without having mated and will produce large clutches, may develop MBD and prolapse and become eggbound if constantly overfeed.

Alright, thank you for the information!

 

[kinyonga]

You're welcome!

BTW...forgot to tell you that you should mist every day and run a dripper too. Make sure you do it long enough to stimulate the chameleon to drink.

 

[JacksJill]

Misting multiple times a day is essential.
Recommended reading. https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/panther/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/food/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/water/

 

[Kaylatuffy]

Misting multiple times a day is essential.
Recommended reading. https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/panther/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/food/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/water/

Thank you! Ill check them out now