This is my first clutch of baby veiled chameleons. They hatched a little early starting at around 5 months and the last one hatching yesterday which would have been 6 months 1 week. I hatched about 25 out of 27 eggs. However, so far I have lost 4 babies and two more are in isolation. How can I get them to eat. We are trying pedialite in small quantities and that seems to be helping a bit. Is it common to lose some. I am also special ordering pinhead crickets, which is very expensive and I am having no luck with deliveries coming when they are supposed to. I had the babies in a ten gallon up until about 2 weeks ago and now since there are so many I have them in a nice size screened chameleon cage with a 60 watt bulb and a UV light. Lots of foilage. Several of the babies seem fat and happy while others are thin and smaller. Any suggestions on what to do with the weaker ones?
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Is it common to lose baby veiled chameleons?
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Hi, If you can get fruit flies they commonly will take those in addtion to the pin heads. Are your chameleons compeating for food, basking spots ect.. I would try to seperate them into smaller groups.. Lets say 5 or so for a 22 gal RepTarIum.. The folage is a good idea.. Veilds are ominverous so you can put a fucius (sp?) tree in their cage the may nibble on the leaves, I'm not shure if the babies will eat plant matter or not..
