Yes veileds are very picky they eat veggies when they want some don’t eat as much as others. They don’t actually need the plants bc we gutload the bugs, but I recommend a vitamin supplement gutloading the feeders is great but sometimes the chameleon can still get a deficiency. It’s smart to give...
It’s good you cleaned the enclosure, some spiders can be poisonous but I doubt that’s the reason. Check his humidity levels, uvb bulbs go bad it might need replaced. I’d use a multivitamin supplement so your chameleons can get all those vitamins they need in case they are deficient. I recommend...
Vitamin A deficiencies commonly bother the eyes in chameleons especially veileds although it could be a broad range of things including illnesses, damage to the eye from injury/fall, incorrect humidity or temperature, and all the rest of that fun stuff. Do you feed him fruit/veggies. I agree...
Definitely do not mist too often with her having the RI, only twice a day when the lights come on and when the lights go out spray for 2-4 minutes until you hit 90-%100 humidity and don’t miss those times while she is sick.
She looks like signs of an RI unfortunately. If you just got her you might want to contact the breeder you got her from unless she got is somehow by your husbandry which I doubt since you’ve only had her a couple days. She is holding her nose in the air in photo 2 that is a telltale sign of a...
I just checked and if you look at the pictures I took yesterday you can see the shed on the left nostril. She must have had it there since yesterday and got it off this morning.
I noticed a piece of shed on the nostril this morning do they shed the nostril/inside of the nostrils? I was told she was about to shed I hadn’t noticed any shedding yet but I saw dry skin hanging out of the nostril today. She got it off but do chameleons shed on the interior of their bodies as...
Here are some stunning pictures I took today of Iris. I am happy to say she seems fully recovered I’m not sure if she shed yet or not but she’s been so green today and had a great appetite. I snapped some photos as soon as her lights shut out and some photos after a fresh mist her colors have...
That could work for now but if you want it perfect I’d still remove the glass and replace it with screen somehow idk how you could do it but that would be a NICE enclosure if you did
If your continuing the diy I would remove the glass from the top of the enclosure and buy some screen just like the front of the cage from Lowe’s or Home Depot to put over the top and measure it /install it and set a plan somehow to make that happen so it is secured to the cage correctly. That...
It could work I’m not as experienced as others about husbandry but glass does eliminate uvb I learned that from @Beman so maybe not the most ideal but I’m not completely sure I’ll leave it up to the others to throw in some of their support and what they think.
I agree that’s why I originally asked if it was hybrid or just glass. We haven’t received a reply yet. I was just throwing out until we get informed but fully glass cage that is not a hybrid will certainly cause a RI if there isn’t enough ventilation.
I completely agree, also with the top being glass as well the chameleon would get no ventilation. I believe most on this forum would recommend at least only 2 sides of the cage to be covered. Chameleons especially require a lot of ventilation, stagnant air collects bacteria from the humidity and...
He does look better, I’m glad he is showing signs of improvement and not the other way around. What cage do you have. Does the light penetrate the top of the cage good enough. Check your basking temperature and hopefully uvb rays make it through the cage. I see your using the compact bulbs, some...
Also make sure he is eating and drinking if he has a vitamin deficiency or respiratory infection they are very stressed and lose appetite either way which is no bueno especially since they are already stressed from the closed eye.
What color bulb are you using it should be incandescent and the basking area should be around 80-85 max. I see @elizaann2 advised this could be a respiratory infection which is possible sometimes but to properly diagnose it the chameleon usually will gape and point their nose in the air as well...