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I have a juvenile female veiled and was wondering if it would accept/recognize dead food. So far she seems uninterested, but i've heard of chameloeons being bowl trained?
anyone else have success with this?
(have ackies which recognize dead food that i feed a mix of turkey and crickets(frozen in ice cube trays with the turkey) with supplements. I still havent mastered cricket keeping and the the stink of them had me move to the aforementioned method)
"bowl trained" for a cham means shooting live feeders out of a bowl rather than hunting them free roaming in the cage. Chams hunt by sight and movement...a dead feeder won't attract their attention (and frankly, a live insect is more nutritious). Even water must be moving to attract their attention. Chams are arboreal and know that water is something that runs or drips, not something that sits in pools on the ground. They are pretty unique in the herp world.
they only reason i ask is my cham has taken dead food before. I had to leave for a week and left crickets in a nearly escape proof container with food and moisture. When i came back all had been eaten save 2 dead crickets. Later that day she ate them either way.
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