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Hi, my two year old male veiled chameleon hasn't been eating for about four days. he seems to be in great health and shows no outward appearance of an illness. The only thing different is that I started feeding him meal worms to give him a more varied diet (He is used to getting crickets.) I switched back to crickets yeasterday, but he still hasn't eaten any. I also noticed that he was nibbling on his ficus plant which he has always done, so he seems capable of eating. Is there anything to worry about here? let me know what you guys think because other then him not eating his crickets he is completely normal.

give him some time, has he defecated anytime recently? If not he may just need to and then I garantee he will eat soon afterwards.

-andrew

I agree that he probably needs to have a BM. Mealworms do have a harder shell. I know I feed these for awhile to my femaled veiled...along with some other bad information...I lost her.

I remember seeing a post about mineral oil if they don't pooh.

Good luck,

Kris
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In addition to other suggestions made here, you can try soaking him in warm water and gently massaging him toward the tail.

I never use mealworms because I worry about them causing impaction. (I do use super worms though and they never seem to cause a problem.)