Secret to getting your chameleon to eat dubias?

[Twitchet]

Haha, well it definitely works, love the idea, my Panther is such a mild mannered old boy that he doesn't mind at all so everyday I've snuck a dubia in whilst he's munching away on a locust, works like an absolute treat it really does, he's such a good boy though, I have a chameleolis who is a super grump, I have popped a pachnoda grub- minus head- in his mouth when he's gaping at me which is useful as he's picky, I've tried putting roaches on their backs but never worked very well for the parsons and still no go for the Panther, I usually just hold them right at the tips of their tails with my very long forceps and offer them which works well. Luckily my veiled is a total hog and eats everything in sight!

 

[Twitchet]

My female parsonii went crazy- o.k as crazy as a parsonii can get- which isn't a lot- for orange heads, as Nick says the sheen on them seemed to be attractive to her. I need more orange heads! They're greeeaatt but so expensive here.

 

[Extensionofgreen]

One of the drawbacks with dubia is that the nymphs tend to hunker down and sit still, which does not stimulate many chameleons. I have found other species of roaches to be more active and easier to get them to accept. My veiled will only eat dubia when they are first introduced and they can sit in the feeder cup for days and be ignored, after.
I like orange heads and latteralis. Latteralis move around a lot more and orange heads (the adults) are fairly easy to place on a branch or on the screen and they are less likely to drop off.
My parsons forced me to injure the roaches and stick the mortally wounded, but still twitching roach in their line of sight. I always hated doing that, but they'd take the orange heads nearly without fail, this way. Dubia they seemed less impressed with. I'm surprised, because I would expect the male dubia to be attractive to chameleons that go nuts over winged mantises, cicadas, and the orange heads. Alas, just when my female FINALLY agreed to bowl feed, I shipped her off to @jpowell86, where she apparently has become quite the roach garbage disposal. Sigh, some children always will behave better for strangers than their loving parents.

 

[Klinger #4077]

When I had a screen cage I would just place dubias on the screen and Bort would eat them instantly. Now I've tried hand feeding him roaches (because of his new enclosure) and he eats them just the same. I don't necessarily like the feeling of a roach ( or roaches) crawling around my hand but I gotta take one for the team lol

 

[Peachypink]

One of the drawbacks with dubia is that the nymphs tend to hunker down and sit still, which does not stimulate many chameleons. I have found other species of roaches to be more active and easier to get them to accept. My veiled will only eat dubia when they are first introduced and they can sit in the feeder cup for days and be ignored, after.
I like orange heads and latteralis. Latteralis move around a lot more and orange heads (the adults) are fairly easy to place on a branch or on the screen and they are less likely to drop off.
My parsons forced me to injure the roaches and stick the mortally wounded, but still twitching roach in their line of sight. I always hated doing that, but they'd take the orange heads nearly without fail, this way. Dubia they seemed less impressed with. I'm surprised, because I would expect the male dubia to be attractive to chameleons that go nuts over winged mantises, cicadas, and the orange heads. Alas, just when my female FINALLY agreed to bowl feed, I shipped her off to @jpowell86, where she apparently has become quite the roach garbage disposal. Sigh, some children always will behave better for strangers than their loving parents.

Silly children. Lol. I need to try orange heads. I've always been able to get my chams to eat dubia even if begrudgingly.