What Else can I Feed Him????

[BigPlaya]

What else can I feed my veiled cham besides crix???

[choriona]

you should search this chameleon forum for other topics on feeding. There have been various posts on what to feed, how much and at what age. Just go in and read past posts.

[Collide]

silks, meal worms, wax worms, butter worms, grass hoppers, locust, mantices, hornworms, some are more nutrisious then others. id have to say that well gutloaded crix and silks are a good base and all the others would make good suplements, some veilds will eat vegitation pothost plants and lettus...some larger breeds will eat pinkie mice but i think that they are hard to digest for a cham...

what kind of cham do u have how old is it?

[gfisher2002]

If your veiled is young I'd stay away from meal worms and super worms. Their exoskeleton is hard to digest and they have a terrible calcium to phosphorus level. If he's older, maybe the odd super worm. Silkies I believe are rather fattening but an excellent alternative to crix.

[Collide]

lol yes sorry forgot to mention that lol.

[Oliverian]

Mantises???? Those are a food item??? I breed those for PETS!!
(and wouldn't they be a bit pokey, too?)
Just wondering, why don't you want to feed crickets?
-Tammy R

[gfisher2002]

I think he does want to, but he just asked for an alternative.

[meow_mix450]

ya i wan to bring the mantis this back up, i got 5 batchs of eggs, and there from last summer lol, can they still hatch, and how do i make them hatch??? Another if i feed it to my cham wont there "claws" hurt the cham????

Meow

[Collide]

LOL i cought 6 mantices this summer with intentions to feed them but they lookked soo scarry i was afraid, but i have seen many chams eating mantis and they go nutx for them what i head a delecacy for chams, but im sure that you would feed a proper sized mantis for your cham, some are huge

[meow_mix450]

ya i got this big backyard thats not mine, and in the feild you can check crikets(black) mantis's butter flys moths, grasshoppers can you feed them grasshoppers??? spiders etc lots, i bring my cham back there so he can enjoy the sunlol mantis, are freaky, it stings when they strike, so watch out lol, easy to breed tho

Meow

[Collide]

about grasshppers they tend to have fairly sharp legs i would pull the legs off b4 feeding.

[meow_mix450]

oo ok, so its find as long as i pull the legs?? is there any different between wild crikets and crikets CB

Meow

[Collide]

yes there is a big diference the wild crix around here are different make sure u catch them from a pesticide free zone, the only place i truse is the cottage. the wild ones teng to be very black.

[Oliverian]

Wild caught insects could carry pesticides or parasites. That's the main difference between wild and store-bought. Just be careful about what you collect.
Collide: Are mantises protected in your area? They are over here. I would think they are still pretty uncommon though, no? Personally I wouldn't feed them as they are so neat, quite uncommon, and might even cause damage to the cham. I've had large ones who have taken down small frogs, and heard of them catching and eating hummingbirds.
Meow: If the eggs are from last summer or fall, they would have already hatched. They won't be any good. The oothecae hatch in the spring, so you'll have to collect new ones this year if you want any to hatch for you. Be careful when taking them off walls and such, as they can be damaged. The way I hatch my eggs is leave them in a garage over winter (preferably one not exposed to chemical fumes) and bring them inside in the spring. I occasionally misted the tank they were in, but not getting too much mist directly on the egg sac. They hatched by the hundreds, and we let most of them go.
gfisher: Oops, my mistake. I figured he just didn't want to deal with crickets. I personally don't anymore, mine kept dying, escaping, and smelling up the room.
-TammyR

[Oliverian]

Oops, collide, posted at the same time as you.
-TammyR