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Hi

does any body knows if the termites, the ones that make mounts on the trees can be use as feeders for baby chameleons, im using pin heads and drosophilas but i want to add more variety to my chams diet.

Have offered termites to adults with zero success. They dont like 'em. Be careful of what your termites have been in contact with. Maybe try offering a tiny termite to just one of the baby chams. Maybe dont risk it at all.
Other options: baby mealworms (up to a centemetre in length are okay for baby chams, especially if worms are recently molted /white and fed good grains and veggies like carrot and dandylion leaves); baby silkworms (again up to a cm); baby wood sows (not too often - a little tough to digest); baby stick bugs (let 'em have three days out of the egg so they soak up some water and eat a little, but dont wait so long that they get too big). Also you can dust fruitflies with different things, such as a mix of calcium and "greens "
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Sandra
BC Canada

I used to use termites for baby brookesia ebenaui which are a challenge to feed to begin with.Ironically for the vast number of insects found in Florida there is not a huge diversity of insects particularly ones useful for feeders there are not a lot of leaf hoppers and such so termites did come into play for this out of neccessity. Feeding termites is a pain and there is the risk of them escaping in your house there is something about termites without a queen that either one of them becomes one or they produce young anyway. I can't really remember for sure but it's not something you want to chance with out knowing for sure. Spring is on it's way or here depending on where you live. Try aphids or leaf hoppers or baby grasshoppers in addition to what has been mentioned already.