P. Nivea aka Green banana Roach

[Chamifornia]

I've been breeding these for a couple months now and unfortunately a couple of my chams won't hand feed so its hard to get them to eat them. They are interested in them but they are too quick and run and hide. How are you guys with P nivea feeding to your animals? Interested in hearing some options

 

[jpowell86]

Luckily all of my chameleons will hand feed. However, I did have this one multituberculata that loved them, but would not hand feed at the time I received him. I ended buying a long shallow Rubbermaid dish and placing the P. nivea inside that so he could container feed. I cut the center of the lid out so there was a small lip overhanging the open part of the container. I still had a few escapees ever once in a while, but as a whole, it did the job. You really can't avoid escapes all the time with these guys though can you?! They are crafty little buggers.

 

[Chamifornia]

Luckily all of my chameleons will hand feed. However, I did have this one multituberculata that loved them, but would not hand feed at the time I received him. I ended buying a long shallow Rubbermaid dish and placing the P. nivea inside that so he could container feed. I cut the center of the lid out so there was a small lip overhanging the open part of the container. I still had a few escapees ever once in a while, but as a whole, it did the job. You really can't avoid escapes all the time with these guys though can you?! They are crafty little buggers.

Interesting thanks. I'll try and give that a shot. Unfortunately the chameleon I'm trying to feed these to is hit or miss with cup feeding also. Maybe these will help with that

 

[Twitchet]

I bought these a while ago as people say chameleons are attracted by their colour and go nuts for them but they are really good at hiding, do you smear anything around top of container to stop them climbing ?. I had trouble finding a container as housing too.
I don't know if this is a daft question but when people say hand feeding does that mean using your hand or does it cover using forceps too. My parsons would never ever feed from my hand but I can offer him all sorts of foods via extra long- 24"- forceps, he won't feed when He can see me so I can hide from him when using them and he eats well.