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One of the first signs of a calcium deficiency can be when a chameleon stops shooting his tongue out to grab food when he did previously. If you don't already, I would suggest gut loading all his food with something like repashy bug burger and then dusting absolutely everything you feed him with...

There's another more detailed post with the same problem but at a more advanced stage... https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/chameleon-skin-bumps-that-look-like-barnicles.9227/ The vet says it's a virus. One of my male panthers has this. I have other male panthers which are all unaffected...

I've got a solar meter 6.2 and we also use one at work to test reptile UVB bulbs. The display has 3 digits. So if the display reads 064 this is 6% or if it reads 121 that is 12%. A reading of 020 is 20% and a reading of 225 would be 22% and so on. Hope this helps!

It might be a sign he's looking for vegetation to eat.....I'd provide him with daily salad leaves to eat. I feed my yemens florette crispy salad leaves and they tongue-zap it like they do with insects! :)

Mini mealworms are specifically good as they can be easily gutloaded and when offered in a feeding dish, the vitamin dust tends to stay on better than with other insects. Saying that, as already stated all insects and variety is good, try curly-winged flies, calciworm flies, wax moths, as well...

I have just found the very same thing with my female panther this eve at 1.30am...gave her lots of water and wet it...then had a mega dash to the nearest tescos to search for some KY jelly....they had none, but managed to blag some free from the hospital A+E dept nearby.....taking her to the...