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Summary: Learn about a veiled chameleon's diet, like plants and if supplements are needed; get more expert pet care advice about chameleons in this free reptile video clip.
Nichole Bragg is the Reptile Expert for The Pet Kingdom in Cottonwood, AZ. She also has many reptiles of her own. Pet Kingdom is at 928-639-4283read more
"NICOLE BRAGG: On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about Veiled Chameleons. As far as your chameleon's diet goes, insects are going to make up the main part of its diet. This chameleon lives mainly off of meal worms, sometimes the occasional cricket. She does like to chase down her bugs. They also eat vegetation. Some things that you can put inside of your chameleon's cage as far as live plants go are ficus. If you look it up online, I'm sure you can find more edible live plants that you can put inside of your terrarium that not only look nice, but are good for the chameleon to munch on as well. Now, the chameleons need to be fed about once every other day. They don't need to eat on a daily basis. As far as supplements go adding to the food, you can add a vitamin supplement that will be very useful. You can just sprinkle them on top of the food that you do provide for your chameleon. Make sure that it provides Vitamin D if you don't provide a whole lot of UVB rays for your chameleon then a Vitamin D supplement is a good idea that will make up for what they're not getting through the UVB rays and allow it to absorb calcium and avoid some bone diseases that are often caused by lack of calcium intake."
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craigcnotes said
on 8/2/2008 Noooo, The sap from ficus can irritate the cameleons eyes.
lopos said
on 12/29/2008 how much food do u offer i have a 3 month old or so and im jw.. plus what fruits can they eat? are bannanahs ok? and plus how can i get her to accept apples?
craigcnotes said
on 8/2/2008 Also... there are 2 types of calcium dust that you can apply one feeding each week and vitamin/mineral dusts. One, is for cricket dusting and the Second, is for food such as kale that you sprinkle a small amount on. You could use a food clip and hang it on the wall of the cage.
There is a debate on D3 (the calcium) being bad for your reptile. They probably mean, giving too much of it.
; ) enjoi!
lizzardlady said
on 5/11/2009 I have bred veiled, panther, jackson and stump tailed chameleons for many years. You do not have a clue about the husbandy of a veiled chameleon! The sad part is people watch your videos and actually do as you describe. You need to do alot more homework before you make these videos!