Toxic Foods

[lizgentry]

Hi

Can anyone advise me on what foods are a deffinate No No for chameleons?

Thanks

 

[Jason4045]

Burgers, fries, pizza, fried chicken..... Oh oops, my mistake this was for the cham...

I am interested in the answer myself.... Id like to get my cham to eat some veggies, but havent been able to to get them to hop and crawl yet, so she ain't interested...

 

[lizgentry]

Burgers, fries, pizza, fried chicken..... Oh oops, my mistake this was for the cham...

I am interested in the answer myself.... Id like to get my cham to eat some veggies, but havent been able to to get them to hop and crawl yet, so she ain't interested...

Perhaps some kind of electric current and a manic laugh???

 

[Ricardo]

dont feed the chameleon with WC bugs, worms and butterfly, unless you are certain that they dont eat poisonous plants!!!

 

[lizgentry]

dont feed the chameleon with WC bugs, worms and butterfly, unless you are certain that they dont eat poisonous plants!!!

Thats great - Thanks!!

 

[Brad Ramsey]

If we're talking about a veiled or Meller's chameleon and if you're asking about vegetative matter, then collard greens would be my favorite offering.
You could also offer:
squash
dandelion
apple
grapes
strawberries
hibiscus
sweet red pepper

No need to list more ... I use collards exclusively, my veiled chameleons also consume the pothos and hibiscus in their enclosures.
The above list is also good to feed insects

Avoid using:
spinach
broccoli
tomato

-Brad

 

[dodolah]

spiders, scorpions, stink bugs, wasp and bees (unless you took out the stinger), mealworms (impaction related), tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, monarch butterflies, ladybugs, some bright colored locust, and the list goes on.

 

[leid]

What about lettuce or carrots?

 

[BigR]

Lettuce contains no nutrition, try kale instead.

I think an update to the feeder database is in order. Include both live animal and plants commonly used for feeding. Maybe a second one for toxic/inappropriate plants and animals.

 

[reptimom]

I know that you cannot feed chams tomatoes, but can you feed them the hornworms that eat the tomato plants. We usually have some super large ones on our tomato plants each year and do not use pesticides?

 

[Sang]

tomatoes are a toxic plant from what i understand.. same with milkweed.

its when the horn worms consume the leaves of a tomato plant is when they become toxic.

 

[Lizardlover]

I know that you cannot feed chams tomatoes, but can you feed them the hornworms that eat the tomato plants. We usually have some super large ones on our tomato plants each year and do not use pesticides?

Wild hornworms are toxic, but captive bred hornworms are bred on a special chow that is not toxic like their natural food, pepper plants (the leaves are poisonus), and tomatoe plants.

 

[ChrisnLisa]

Do any of you know if you could collect wild hornworms and then feed them chow for awhile, and then feed them to your chams? I assume this would give them time to excrete everything from the tomato plants out of their system.

 

[Lizardlover]

at least two weeks id say, tomatoe leaves are extremely toxic

 

[tv321406]

i just found a big juicy cockroach in our apt las night. i quarrantined it in a jar with some lettuce. im trying to decide whether to feed it to my veiled. I doubt its been exposed to any pesticides but idk for sure. anybody have any input?

 

[Eric Adrignola]

Tomatoes are not toxic. The plants are, anything that eats the plants can be toxic, so avoid them. Tomatoes themselves offer little for chameleons, but are not going to hurt them. I'd have lost a lot of them a long time ago if it were the case.