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One pinki a month for a 7 month old male veild? Or is he too young? (np)
gabrielmtl
Sep 30, 2003 02:55 PM
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TylerStewart
Sep 30, 2003 10:06 PM
You could feed a pinky to a veiled if he's 7 months old. They can eat things alot bigger than you would think. There's a picture in that book by Wolfgang Schmidt "Yemen Chameleon" that shows a big veiled eating what looks like a full grown mouse. It's got brown hair on it. It looks like he's choking on it, but apparently not. There's also a picture of a large veiled eating a large leopard gecko. All it shows is the tail goin down and 2 legs sticking out... Ha ha ha.... We should post that pic in the leopard gecko forum lol. There's just no real reason to feed a pinky to a veiled. They say that they can get certain vitamins from it.... I'm not a tree hugger by any means, but I don't particularly like watching a baby mouse get chewed on.... I've done it a few times and don't care for it too much. Plus, it seems like it makes a chameleon kinda mean... I know veileds are mean already, but mine got exceptionally mean in the weeks after I started feeding him pinkies.
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV
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Carlton
Oct 01, 2003 02:59 PM
There is no really good reason to feed pinkies to chams. I suspect the older care books mention feeding pinks because there was much less variety in captive produced feeder insects than these days. Yes, it might be able to eat it, but a meal like that is a very big load to digest and some of the proteins are difficult for them to process. Chams probably don't eat baby mammals very often in the wild. Some are known to take nestling birds from tree nests. In fact your veiled may not show much interest unless it is really moving around. Years ago I offered one to a very large veiled and never again...the cham ignored it for the longest time until I harrassed it. It wasn't pretty watching him chew it and the pink probably suffered a lot. This veiled lived just fine on lots of insects after that.
