How much do you feed a chameleon?

How much do you feed a chameleon?

Veiled chameleons can be fed a staple diet of crickets that are as long as your chameleon's head is wide. Baby and juvenile veiled chameleons should be fed once or twice a day, with almost constant access to food. As they get older, you can feed them slightly less often. Adults can be fed every other day.

Do chameleons have to eat live food?

Chameleons happily live on a diet of live crickets, meal worms, roaches, and other insects. Silk worms and wax worms are favorites, but because they are fatty should not comprise a majority of a chameleon's food. Some chameleons also eat baby mice. … A baby chameleon will need smaller-sized food than an adult.

Why would a chameleon stop eating?

Some reasons why a chameleon will refuse to eat The chameleon is fed-up with eating one feeder insect but will accept others (e.g. too much crickets, but it will readily eat a caterpillar) Stress caused by a move, change of terrarium or other temporary harmless change for the chameleon.