Veiled Chameleon

[Debbienflorida]

I have a 6 mo. old Veiled and was wondering when I should start feeding vegetables? If soon , what kind. The main plant in her enclosure is a Pothos , very dense but I don't see any leaves that appear munched. Right \now she eats crickets, Supers, Silkworms and soon, Phoenix worms. TIA

 

[Rocky]

my veiled likes to eat lettuce(hung from the sides of the cage) grapes, strawberries, and bananas(cut in small slices and skewered onto a stick that is stuck into the dirt of a pot)

 

[JoshCrane1]

i started hand feeding my veileds collard greens at age 5 mo. my male would live on collards if i let him.

 

[BocaJan]

I think there should be a sticky for this question. So many people ask this question and it is valid as I keep trying to offer a varied diet to my chams. Brad, could we have one? Do we have one?

 

[jannb]

I would offer fruits and vegtables now and just see what you cham likes.

 

[jukeboxpunk]

my cham

My cham is 2.5 months old and has been munching on my pothos in his enclosure. Last night I tried to feed him some spinach; however, he didn't seem to like it. What fruits and vegetables are healthy substitutes or additions to a chams diet?

 

[BocaJan]

Spinach is not something you should be feeding your cham. Romain, kale, strawberries, watermelon, snow peas, apples, etc. I chop mine up small and give them a bit every day or so. I have one that just likes the strawberries and one that just likes the kale. I think that they also will eat a piece or two of the snow peas, but trying out the good stuff is helpful. They will decide what they want to eat.

 

[kinyonga]

I keep box turtles and uros so I give the veileds the same things that I give them...greens (dandelion, kale, collards, endive, escarole, mustard greens, etc.) and veggies (carrots, squash, sweet red peppers, sweet potato, zucchini, celery leaves, etc.) and a bit of fruit (apple, pear, melon, berries, etc.).

The leaves can be hung up, fruit wedges impaled on branches or everything can be cut into pieces of a suitable size for the chameleon to eat and put in a container.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

I would offer collard greens and other dark leafy greens (again, not spinach) from the very beginning.
Kitty was eating them at 5 weeks old.
I still don't understand the idea that you need to wait until a certain age ... who came up with that???

-Brad

 

[George Yamen]

rasberries

my guy loves em,and tiny apple chunks

 

[jukeboxpunk]

today

Today my cham actually shot his tongue out at an apple slice I put in front of him. He did this repeatedly and couldn't get the piece to stick to his tongue and then into his mouth. I crushed the apple up some more to the size of a 1/4 cricket. He tried it again and it still didn't work. So I put the piece right up in to the chams mouth region and he just bit at and finally consumed it. He seemed to like it. Is there a better way to feed him crushed apples and other food that he can't use his tongue to get?

 

[kinyonga]

He should learn to just walk up to a wedge of apple and pick it up like other lizards do that don't have the "chameleon tongue".