You said..."Kinyonga may have had experience with deremensis like this - the suckers will NOT move from tongue range of the bowl"...not with deremensis, although they are somewhat lazy about moving around the cage. Years ago, before I had deremensis, I tried bowl feeding and found that I didn't like the lack of exercise that the chameleons were getting and then, I started hearing about the lazy tongues that were resulting, so I just stopped using bowls.



Regarding crickets nibbling chameleons, I have had it happen to a veiled that was in a stupor while laying eggs before I learned not to allow insects in the cage when the female was laying her eggs. I also had one batch of crickets from a different breeder that were terrible for trying to nibble chameleons. I think it might have had something to do with the way they were raised....lacking something in their diet, maybe?



You said..."It's not a huge deal that they might eat an occational cricket with little gutload or supplementation - the majority wil have full bellies"...its a little like us eating "junk food" once in a while...we don't die from it if its not all the time.



Your slow-release cup is an interesting idea...something similar is used in zoos and I know of several people that use that idea with their chameleons too.



You said..."Regardless of the rules and facts that you see - most everything about chameleon care is NOT written in stone, and there are many ways of doing almost everything"...so true! This is why I usually say "this is what I do and it works for me" in a lot of my posts.

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