died by drinking water

Pet with a tail · 03-18-04, 12:09 AM

this morning i did my usual feeding to my veiled male baby but today i gave him mealworms and i powder dusted them with HERPCARE calcium supplement then i put them i my veileds red food dish and the worm drank some water and died, is that normal it drank its self to death???some others died to and its not alot of water its like a dot.....??

m1k3_88 · 03-18-04, 12:11 AM

maybe they drowned

Pet with a tail · 03-18-04, 12:19 AM

aww thatssad but he still ate it he knew the shape i guess....but he moves fast to get the mealworms so far id say theor his favorite....

meow_mix450 · 03-18-04, 01:13 AM

lol thats weird, but ya my bet is they drowned lol, i put a meal in my geckos cage, and theres a dish of shallow water not even a cm, so the worm walks in and drowned lol, what water do you use tap?How big is your mealies?

Meow

Pet with a tail · 03-18-04, 01:52 AM

yeah i use tap ater the mealworms are like 1 inch long maybe 1/2 inch long they are small ones

meow_mix450 · 03-18-04, 02:12 AM

oo ok thats good

, but dont worry probly it drowned lol

Good luck,
Meow

Bighead · 03-21-04, 04:53 AM

mealworms drown in very small amounts of water. You will notice that you will never see using a water dish in the meal worm care sheets.

Brock · 03-31-04, 07:32 PM

Yeah they just haven't evolved to tolerate much water at all. The sandfish (species of desert skink) also cannot tolerate much water, they get their water intake only from the insects they eat. Kingworms, on the other hand, can survive a washing through the laundry. They come from Brazil I believe so they can handle the moisture.

-Brock

Matt.B · 03-31-04, 07:46 PM

King worms are mealworms on steriods are you talking bout supers?
Matt

panther_dude · 04-03-04, 08:58 PM

ya hey i know what you guys mean my baby gurl loves the meal worms. i dont know must just be cause they are a treat. i think chams are actually pretty smart. Didnt take her very long not even 5 days to figure out where her feeding dish was in her four foot sqaured cage

kidchameleon · 04-04-04, 12:04 AM

eh, i tried the feeding dish one, with both of my chameleons. my jackson just seemed to ignore he. i guess he likes hunting for his food. my veiled wouldnt eat from a dish either, however, since she is still small, i put about a dozen crickets in a cup and put it in front of her and she eats out of there. i still let some raom free in the cage so she can get used to hunting them on her own, but for the most part i feed her from the cup. she is only 8 weeks old though. she is tiny

panther_dude · 04-05-04, 05:46 PM

what sort of container did you use. Its doesnt make sence for them not to use it. Is your container clear. They have to be able to see the prey moving around through the sides. other wise they wont know its there.

oiler17 · 04-05-04, 10:17 PM

I read in a few different places (I don't remember where now, it was a while back) that it's a bad idea to use clear food cups/dishes because they'll mis-judge distance and could hurt their tongue. I don't know if it's one of those extremely anal, overly cautious keepers or what, but that's waht I heard. I just keep my food cup somewhere so he is always above it, that way he'll see the food and stuff but won't try to rip his tongue through the side or anything.

huhet · 04-05-04, 11:41 PM

i'm with oiler on that one, i was getting ready to feed my pygmies today, and they were eyeing the crickets on the outside of the cage. i'm positive if i would have left it there any longer, there would have been tounges bouncing off the glass.

panther_dude · 04-07-04, 12:09 AM

well i dont know im pretty sure that the impact of hitting a bug on a branch is going to be the same at hitting a bug in the bottom of a feeding dish even hitting glass chameleons dont hit dead on everytime. my baby panther even shoots her tounge out at water drops down the side of the tree and stuff like that with no ill effect