What veg/fruit to give a 14week old yemen chameleon??

[dreamforthedead]

I've been feeding mine on hoppers (wax worms as a treat) , she wont eat crickets or meal worms, lol. I'm just wondering is there any fruit or veg i could try her on?? She likes cress and i was told to try her on carrot but what else?

 

[dakotakleiner]

What's hoppers?...... veiled chameleons usually do not eat fruits or veggies until maturing after 6 months mine is almost 7 months and he still won't eat any plant matter like that......don't feed her meal worms this young their very hard and cruncy and at that age they'll have a hard time digesting them

 

[dakotakleiner]

And prehaps the crickets you are trying to feed her are two large she sounds really young....she should only be eating small crickets prehaps pinheads

 

[fluxlizard]

hoppers are grasshoppers right?

What I have done with my veileds is make leafy green based salads. Collards, mustard greens and other dark greens are high in calcium. I cut the greens into tiny bits especially for young chams so they fit in the mouth pretty easily and picked up by tongue accidentally easily when the lizard shoots at an insect. The cut size of the greens is about like coleslaw if you have ever seen that. I put the greens in a dish and the insects on top of the greens. This gets them eating greens at a young age (from about the time they can feed on 1/4" insects) and they soon develop a taste for the greens and after several weeks they will sometimes just start shooting at the greens themselves after the bugs are all gone. I shred things like carrots before chopping up with the leaf base. Basically anything you can eat is fine, just go easy on food items that you would go easy on when feeding iguanas (like cabbage, spinach, etc), and try to rotate salad items regularly. There are lots of sites on iguana nutrition on the net- just google.

 

[pssh]

Feed her anything you should feed the bugs, just make sure it's cut up really small. Collard greens, mustard greens, dandelions, kale, endive, escarole, and other green leafy lettuces. Other fruits and veggies like squash, carrots, sweet peppers, yams, papaya, oranges, apples and berries. Avoid spinach, broccoli, and tomatoes.

Also try feeding silkworms, butterworms, pill bugs, superworms, non toxic butterflies and moths, and stick bugs.

 

[Lizardlover]

Feed her anything you should feed the bugs, just make sure it's cut up really small. Collard greens, mustard greens, dandelions, kale, endive, escarole, and other green leafy lettuces. Other fruits and veggies like squash, carrots, sweet peppers, yams, papaya, oranges, apples and berries. Avoid spinach, broccoli, and tomatoes.

Also try feeding silkworms, butterworms, pill bugs, superworms, non toxic butterflies and moths, and stick bugs.

Kale should be used in moderation, as it can cause some calcium binding just as broccoli and spinach can.

 

[Jakedn]

Kale should be used in moderation, as it can cause some calcium binding just as broccoli and spinach can.

I did not know this, thanks for the information. I will start using less of it.

 

[dmaizer]

I've been feeding mine on hoppers (wax worms as a treat) , she wont eat crickets or meal worms, lol. I'm just wondering is there any fruit or veg i could try her on?? She likes cress and i was told to try her on carrot but what else?

are you useing waxworms as a staple feeder?whats hoppers?

 

[gary1621]

Hoppers, its a name given to locust, well the younger locust.

In the OP she says waxies are given as a treat, not a staple

My Peanut has gone mad for Parsley at the moment, she has never shown an interest in plant matter before but we had a plant going so i put it in. She didnt seem fussed, i thought the locust were eatting it until we caught her munching away

Am going to try a few more veggies now

 

[DJ Richey Rich]

Gucci is 6 months now and will eat any fruit or vegi I but in front of her at 4 monthe she would take a bite out of oranges and apples

 

[Syn]

Kale should be used in moderation, as it can cause some calcium binding just as broccoli and spinach can.

Actually, no. It is low in oxalic acid as listed in Sandra's blog:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/215-oxalic-acid-content-vegetables.html

However, it is not an "always" food.

Kale .02 (some tables list this number as MUCH higher, thus I would treat like carrot and other moderates)

As compared to

Spinach .97 (avoid using)