Can’t stress enough on how I appreciate your detailed explanation. I did notice you said “Her” at the beginning as oppose to “Her/His”. Not knocking on you one bit just helping you know that cause I LUV your videos 😘
@@carlosmerino2400interesting that you pointed this out. Women live in a man’s world were “his/he” or “hey guys” is the dominate phrased when to refer to a group of co-Ed’s. But I digress. The creator clarified for you your concern.
the sadest thing is, wenn a cameleon vorget how to use the tongue, cameleons also like to get lasy to use the tongue, and this is a problem from the oner!
My chameleon recently stopped using his tongue at a distance while eating. He gets right up to his feeding cup and just scoops them up close with his tongue. His tongue looks normal, however I’m concerned because it isn’t like him.
@@NeptunetheChameleon I think the issue is the UVB. One of his plants grew significantly taller than I realized and it seems to be blocking the uvb from getting to all parts of his cage. I’m going to be trimming it back and also increasing his calcium supplements for the month. I’m hoping he starts doing better.
Our 7-ish month old seems to be eating his bugs at close range (almost all the way in his cup and leans far down). Does his age have to do with how far his tongue will stretch to get his food? Or is this something we should monitor?
Age is not a factor. Have you seen him use his tongue at a far distance yet? It'd be good to determine if it's just his preference or if he is unable to use it properly.
Recently got a veiled chameleon, 1 day ago in fact, I have tried to feed crickets but she doesn't seem interested, is this something to be concerned about or does she just need some time to settle in?
Make sure they are bugs that are alive, that she has a proper setup, and that you don't try to hand feed her. She will likely still need time to get settled in. Do you know what kind of species she is?
just watched this video because I was cup feeding my chameleon, and he hit his tongue on the plastic side and his tongue was stuck, after he retracted it he was only able to shoot it out a little bit to eat the bugs i moved them close to his mouth. He is now just on a branch, his tongue is in his mouth. I believe its a minor injury like you said. should I be worried?
@@NeptunetheChameleon thank you for the quick reply, it means a lot hearing from you. Thanks for the advice!!! love your content and how much you care about animals!
Hmm that really depends on a few things. How old is the chameleon? Did you add additional plants/branches to the kit? How long are you planning on using it before getting the correct size enclosure and UVB bulb?
I adopted my adult male veiled chameleon and he's never used his tongue I've had him since just after xmas 2023 and he was so timid and scared and he moves so slowly and he doesn't use his tongue to eat he will creep up on his food and his tongue is more like my beared dragon eating than a chameleon 😢 i don't think they dusted his food there was a bowl with really stale calcium powder on the bottom of his tank but he doesn't like going down there i dust his food with reptivite and calcium since I got him and try to feed him veg he doesn't eat it but I try 😂 he ate from a cup in my hand for the first time the other day hes starting to trust me which is super cool after how timid he is ❤
Don't get me wrong theres nothing wrong with his appetite he just had to work harder to hunt down his food and sneak up on it which us probably doing hin some good he was fed solely on meal worms before i got him he now eats locust cricket wax worms super worms he loves hunting his food rather than you putting it in front of him his colours are so bright when hes stalking a locust or cricket around his enclosure which makes me so happy he was always so dark and looked so miserable when I got him 😢
My cham’s tongue swelled up and then turned black…then shriveled up and fell off like a leaf….I couldn’t get her to anywhere….God was with my chameleon cuz now she’s getting used to eating…..hope she can drink better in the future….but God sure did do it.
Hi, would you please be so kind and give my any advice? I have a 8mo chameleon who lost his tongue and he is scared of insect. He alwas was scared of any moving insects, he always waited until they got still for a second and then shooted and ate. And it didn't even took long, always when I gave him fresh crickets, he ate immidiatly. We had to bond over worms for the same reasons, they don't move so much as crickets. He got even used to to eat from my hand :) But now without the tongue he doesn't eat by himself because he is scared of the moving insect,... I have to forcefeed him 3x a day which is very stressful for him. Is there any way how to teach him to eat by himself? I asked couple of cham breeders, vet, and on couple of cham forums, so far 0 success. Because he is scared of the insect, even small one. He doesn't understand that now he has to go and bite. Please, do you have any advices? :/
I’d try to only feed him 1x a day so it’s not so stressful for him. And work towards cup feeding him so he can do it on his own. I have a video on tips for cup feeding you can check out. Might just take him time to figure it out. But if you keep hand feeding him, then he won’t figure it out 😅
@@NeptunetheChameleon Thank you so much for your swift replay, you have to be so busy and yet you really make the time, I love you. When he still had his tongue, he was used to eat free ranged, and when I moved him to bigger cage (120x60x60cm) I added feeding cup as well and he ated from the cup as well, no problem at all. But now even when he sees the insect he goes away from it. I tried use also shallow plate for worms so he could easily grab them but he doesnt approach them at all. Vet recommended 1. to freeze the crickets a bit so they would be slower 2. or to torn their last legs so they couldn't jump, 3. or to tilt the feeding cup, 4. or to put the insect into high yogurt cup, so the cham can dive in and hunt easily, 5. I even tried to tied the insect to branches so they could not escape but still be moving 6. or I tried to give the cricket just a little in his mouth so he would have to bite and chew them. He eats them but not by himself. Nothing helped :/. He is scared of them. But first few days after his incident he tried even to put a worm in his mouth but shortly after he understood that he can't shoot he completly stopped to try to eat. He simply doesn't understand that now he has to go to them and grab them into his mouth. And I have no clue how to teach him that. My forcefeeding caused only that clever he learnt that I want him to open his mouth so I could put a crichet in there and he doesn't like it, so he stopped opening his mouth. Vet said forcefeeding him is easy, just to make him mad with me scaring him with my hand going above him and when he's scared opening his mouth, quickly put cricket in there. That worked for a week maybe, that he learned what I'm doing and stopped opening his mouth. Then I found out that he is extremly scared of sticks (maybe snake resemblence?) so I always scared him with stick and again quickly but gently and carefully inserter a cricket. That as well stopped working withing a week maybe. Then I learned that when I gently grab him behing his head, he fights back and open his mouth. That as well stopped working after couple of days. Now the only way how can I persuade him to open his mouth is to gently grab him behing his head and hold his head up, sometimes even completly in the air :( I don't want to fight with him, I don't want to stress him. I wish I could teach him that when I'm holding the cricket in tweezers he doesn't need to be scared and can bite them peacefuly. Or even him open open his mouth by himself so I could insert the food. Or him truly eating independently like a lizzard, go catch bite. I'm really desperate, scaring him, stressing him, and he eats too little. Normally ate ~7 big crickets a day, now he eats much less. He didn't even shed his skin in almost 2 months, he doesn't grow as he should. I don't want him to be underfed but in this terrible situation he surely is. Feeding him only once a day make sense in order to let him learn, but he would be even less fed as she should. I'm eternally grateful for any advice.
At his age he is going to start eating less and shedding less often so I wouldn't stress about that. An adult chameleon usually only eats 3-5 bugs every 2-3 days. There are some good videos on TH-cam on how to force feed a chameleon but that is not something I have had to do myself :(
@@NeptunetheChameleon I know, but 8 months is not an adult yet. He ate usually 7 big crickets daily. I looked on many videos on force-feeding but they are usually for veiled chameleons and I do have panther one, so he doesn't have the cool mohawk bone which would be very helpful. Other examples are with much less stubborn chams. But I'll figure it out.
I learned the hard way this last week to never use a food bowl attached with a chain. My buddy got his tongue stuck on it and got it so severely wrapped up, he passed.
I learned so much from this channel about chameleons. Thank you, keep up the good work!
Happy to hear that!
Neptune in the back lol, he's so cute
Cracks me up when he does that while I'm filming haha
Can’t stress enough on how I appreciate your detailed explanation. I did notice you said “Her” at the beginning as oppose to “Her/His”. Not knocking on you one bit just helping you know that cause I LUV your videos 😘
I’m not sure what part of the video you’re talking about when you say “Her/His”. Is there a time stamp you can reference?
@@NeptunetheChameleonMinute Marker 0:11 to 0:12 you say “Her” as oppose to “His/Her”. Again not giving you crap whatsoever.
Ah! I actually say “what do you do when your chameleon is having issues with their tongue”. Hope that clears things up!
@@NeptunetheChameleon 1,000,000 I stand corrected you say it so far it sounds like “Her” great video overall again!
@@carlosmerino2400interesting that you pointed this out. Women live in a man’s world were “his/he” or “hey guys” is the dominate phrased when to refer to a group of co-Ed’s. But I digress. The creator clarified for you your concern.
Great informative video!
Thank you!
"Have no fear, Neptune's Mom is here" 🤣💚 Love from South Africa 🦎
That's me!
the sadest thing is, wenn a cameleon vorget how to use the tongue, cameleons also like to get lasy to use the tongue, and this is a problem from the oner!
My chameleon recently stopped using his tongue at a distance while eating. He gets right up to his feeding cup and just scoops them up close with his tongue. His tongue looks normal, however I’m concerned because it isn’t like him.
Hmm you may want to check that your UVB and supplementations are correct since that's not normal behavior.
@@NeptunetheChameleon I think the issue is the UVB. One of his plants grew significantly taller than I realized and it seems to be blocking the uvb from getting to all parts of his cage. I’m going to be trimming it back and also increasing his calcium supplements for the month. I’m hoping he starts doing better.
Our 7-ish month old seems to be eating his bugs at close range (almost all the way in his cup and leans far down). Does his age have to do with how far his tongue will stretch to get his food? Or is this something we should monitor?
Age is not a factor. Have you seen him use his tongue at a far distance yet? It'd be good to determine if it's just his preference or if he is unable to use it properly.
Recently got a veiled chameleon, 1 day ago in fact, I have tried to feed crickets but she doesn't seem interested, is this something to be concerned about or does she just need some time to settle in?
They usually need time to settle in. This video should help ease your worries: th-cam.com/video/2IESxfzFnmc/w-d-xo.html
I see that hornworms they grow big and one tiii feed my chameleon with one and was so heavy that she couldn't bring up to her mouth
Yes definitely have to be careful with the big ones!
Also praying mantises are bad to feed unless you rip the arms off
Thanks for sharing! I haven't fed those before.
I found a chameleon on my backyard a few days ago i keep giving her insects to eat and even make it closer to her mouth but dont eat
Make sure they are bugs that are alive, that she has a proper setup, and that you don't try to hand feed her. She will likely still need time to get settled in. Do you know what kind of species she is?
just watched this video because I was cup feeding my chameleon, and he hit his tongue on the plastic side and his tongue was stuck, after he retracted it he was only able to shoot it out a little bit to eat the bugs i moved them close to his mouth. He is now just on a branch, his tongue is in his mouth. I believe its a minor injury like you said. should I be worried?
I'd monitor him and try to offer bugs up close so he doesn't have to strain his tongue.
@@NeptunetheChameleon thank you for the quick reply, it means a lot hearing from you. Thanks for the advice!!! love your content and how much you care about animals!
Is it possible to be successful with the chameleon kit because that’s how I started and my chameleon is still alive
Hmm that really depends on a few things. How old is the chameleon? Did you add additional plants/branches to the kit? How long are you planning on using it before getting the correct size enclosure and UVB bulb?
My cameleon stopped using his tongue ive been feeding him for 6 months by hand. He was eating healthy for a year then one say just stopped.
I adopted my adult male veiled chameleon and he's never used his tongue I've had him since just after xmas 2023 and he was so timid and scared and he moves so slowly and he doesn't use his tongue to eat he will creep up on his food and his tongue is more like my beared dragon eating than a chameleon 😢 i don't think they dusted his food there was a bowl with really stale calcium powder on the bottom of his tank but he doesn't like going down there i dust his food with reptivite and calcium since I got him and try to feed him veg he doesn't eat it but I try 😂 he ate from a cup in my hand for the first time the other day hes starting to trust me which is super cool after how timid he is ❤
Don't get me wrong theres nothing wrong with his appetite he just had to work harder to hunt down his food and sneak up on it which us probably doing hin some good he was fed solely on meal worms before i got him he now eats locust cricket wax worms super worms he loves hunting his food rather than you putting it in front of him his colours are so bright when hes stalking a locust or cricket around his enclosure which makes me so happy he was always so dark and looked so miserable when I got him 😢
My cham’s tongue swelled up and then turned black…then shriveled up and fell off like a leaf….I couldn’t get her to anywhere….God was with my chameleon cuz now she’s getting used to eating…..hope she can drink better in the future….but God sure did do it.
YIKES!
@@NeptunetheChameleon yikes indeed….now we have to figure out a way to get her more water
Hi, would you please be so kind and give my any advice?
I have a 8mo chameleon who lost his tongue and he is scared of insect. He alwas was scared of any moving insects, he always waited until they got still for a second and then shooted and ate. And it didn't even took long, always when I gave him fresh crickets, he ate immidiatly. We had to bond over worms for the same reasons, they don't move so much as crickets. He got even used to to eat from my hand :)
But now without the tongue he doesn't eat by himself because he is scared of the moving insect,... I have to forcefeed him 3x a day which is very stressful for him. Is there any way how to teach him to eat by himself? I asked couple of cham breeders, vet, and on couple of cham forums, so far 0 success. Because he is scared of the insect, even small one. He doesn't understand that now he has to go and bite. Please, do you have any advices? :/
I’d try to only feed him 1x a day so it’s not so stressful for him. And work towards cup feeding him so he can do it on his own. I have a video on tips for cup feeding you can check out. Might just take him time to figure it out. But if you keep hand feeding him, then he won’t figure it out 😅
@@NeptunetheChameleon Thank you so much for your swift replay, you have to be so busy and yet you really make the time, I love you.
When he still had his tongue, he was used to eat free ranged, and when I moved him to bigger cage (120x60x60cm) I added feeding cup as well and he ated from the cup as well, no problem at all. But now even when he sees the insect he goes away from it. I tried use also shallow plate for worms so he could easily grab them but he doesnt approach them at all.
Vet recommended
1. to freeze the crickets a bit so they would be slower
2. or to torn their last legs so they couldn't jump,
3. or to tilt the feeding cup,
4. or to put the insect into high yogurt cup, so the cham can dive in and hunt easily,
5. I even tried to tied the insect to branches so they could not escape but still be moving
6. or I tried to give the cricket just a little in his mouth so he would have to bite and chew them. He eats them but not by himself.
Nothing helped :/. He is scared of them.
But first few days after his incident he tried even to put a worm in his mouth but shortly after he understood that he can't shoot he completly stopped to try to eat. He simply doesn't understand that now he has to go to them and grab them into his mouth. And I have no clue how to teach him that. My forcefeeding caused only that clever he learnt that I want him to open his mouth so I could put a crichet in there and he doesn't like it, so he stopped opening his mouth.
Vet said forcefeeding him is easy, just to make him mad with me scaring him with my hand going above him and when he's scared opening his mouth, quickly put cricket in there. That worked for a week maybe, that he learned what I'm doing and stopped opening his mouth.
Then I found out that he is extremly scared of sticks (maybe snake resemblence?) so I always scared him with stick and again quickly but gently and carefully inserter a cricket. That as well stopped working withing a week maybe.
Then I learned that when I gently grab him behing his head, he fights back and open his mouth. That as well stopped working after couple of days.
Now the only way how can I persuade him to open his mouth is to gently grab him behing his head and hold his head up, sometimes even completly in the air :(
I don't want to fight with him, I don't want to stress him. I wish I could teach him that when I'm holding the cricket in tweezers he doesn't need to be scared and can bite them peacefuly. Or even him open open his mouth by himself so I could insert the food. Or him truly eating independently like a lizzard, go catch bite.
I'm really desperate, scaring him, stressing him, and he eats too little.
Normally ate ~7 big crickets a day, now he eats much less. He didn't even shed his skin in almost 2 months, he doesn't grow as he should. I don't want him to be underfed but in this terrible situation he surely is. Feeding him only once a day make sense in order to let him learn, but he would be even less fed as she should.
I'm eternally grateful for any advice.
At his age he is going to start eating less and shedding less often so I wouldn't stress about that. An adult chameleon usually only eats 3-5 bugs every 2-3 days. There are some good videos on TH-cam on how to force feed a chameleon but that is not something I have had to do myself :(
@@NeptunetheChameleon I know, but 8 months is not an adult yet. He ate usually 7 big crickets daily. I looked on many videos on force-feeding but they are usually for veiled chameleons and I do have panther one, so he doesn't have the cool mohawk bone which would be very helpful. Other examples are with much less stubborn chams. But I'll figure it out.
I learned the hard way this last week to never use a food bowl attached with a chain. My buddy got his tongue stuck on it and got it so severely wrapped up, he passed.
I am so so sorry to hear that 🥺💔