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I'm new to veileds and I'm wondering if they are okay with a variety of worms or other feeders besides crickets? Anyone ever feed them can o crickets while on vacation?

Crickets have the best calcuim to phosphurus ratio. You can use feeder worms but sparingly because they are high in fat and exoskeloton (mealworms). Juvy and adult chameleons will also eat collard greens and any pothos or fiscus u have in the cage. I hope that helps.
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Actually, if you really want to get technical, Roaches and Silkworms have a MUCH better calcium to phosporous ratio than crickets. Ive gotten to the point that silks and roaches are the main prey for ALL of My insectivorous/omnivorous reptiles. I feed crix only very occasionally, as a treat. Roaches are also very easy to breed and keep, dont smell like crix do, easy to feed, dont make NOISE, and tend to be much easier for my chams to catch. Silkies come in all different sizes, and are safe to feed to any animal because they dont have a hard exoskeleton to digest. Even hatchlings can eat the tiny baby silks that you can hatch out of eggs on your own.

As for feeding the "can o crix"... my chams would never eat them, because they didtn move. Now, if you had a cham you were handfeeding, that was used to shooting at something being held, they would probably work, but my cup fed chams would never eat them.

Good luck,
ML

A variety is great. Crix are a fairly simple staple food, but there are lots of other feeders you can use. Silkworms, Zoophobas, tomato hornworms (raised on tomato fruit, not the plants), grasshoppers, mantids, some mealworms, waxworms, katydids, roaches, spiders, flies, moths. I would only feed Can o Crix to a Can o Cham. Disgusting things, dead and not moving, and who knows how long they sat on a wholesaler's shelf?

Now how do you know that are any less tasty than the real thing? I'm sure they're filled with lots of yummy preservatives.

j/k
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~Melissa
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Well, I opened a can of them once and they really smelled gross and looked nasty. Legs and wings broken etc. I couldn't see how a cham would be attracted to them (I hope that after keeping chams for years I might have some idea of what looks tasty to one! I know I can look at a lot of creepy crawlies like roaches and say Yummy!))