Hey there!
I rarely see my cham drink.... but i spray twice a day and have a dripper running 24/7..... i know she drinks from the dripper because I have seen her in the past.... I give my cham mellon which i soak in warm water first... she will eat 2 to 3 bits a day so i know she is taking...
Chunk, Im from UK too and i use this site for my feeders... hes a lovely bloke very helpful and he does butterworms, silks, soldier worms etc
i order lots of the butters and used to get the silkies too but they are so dam hard to keep so i stoped getting them.....
my cham has just...
hey guys!
from what ive seen its its a pygmy leaf chameleon. over here in uk there is a series on bbc tv right now called David Attenborough's Madagascar. the leaf chameleons have been on it... so dam tiny... they do eat tiny fruit flies and they get the flies off small fruits which the...
after checking on her this morning she was not interested in digging again which has got me worried..... she is still very strong, climbing all over the place and when she was walking i could hear the eggs rubbing together :( I got her into the emergency vet today and she took a scan of her...
hey..... oh my god what a nightmare :(
shes bascially been in the same spot all day.... i couldnt take it anymore so i decided to dig her out and im glad i did because tunnel 2 had collapsed and she was lying on her side when i dug her out...... i was soooo careful when digging to get her...
hey!!!
shes is still in there scratching away...... it still sounds like she is in the same spot!!
i duno...... ive got the football on so im sort of chilled out lol :D
ok just checked on her again and i can now hear her again and sounds likes shes has move a little bit round the laying bin..... so maybe when it went quite she was laying?? or just having a rest...... shes litrally been down this tunnel for a day now!! shes still going tho - bless her.....
Thanks clair....
yea i did think about it caving in..... but no soil/sand has moved on the top...... i will just keep an eye on her......
well the football is on today!! im just glad im at home today to keep an eye on her....
:)
Hey.... yea i think she is bascially in the same area where the first tunnel was.... ive not heard anything for the last hour now..... im gonna leave her for a bit longer and see..... im just worried that she might be stuck down there.....
Update:
ok so she stayed in the tunnel last night and this morning when i went in after about 20mins of the lights going on just after 7am i could hear her digging/scratching.... its coming from the same area as i highlighted in the pics so she is still around the same spot in the...
Thanks Clair!
The lights are out now and im going to keep checking on her..... she is still going now! im quite confident the mix of sand and soil is good and i did compact it a bit when filling up the bucket.. i dug a little hole a minute ago with my hand and its sill nice and moist after...
Hey Clair :D
Ok well this moring she was back in the 2nd hole digging away and i came home at lunch and she was still in there!
ive not long been home from work and she is still in the hole... i can hear her scratching / digging and she has pretty much dug round the edge of the bin and it...
Evening Update: :D:D
Ok so i got home from work and she has dug another tunnel bascially the oppersite side of the first tunnel..... she was up on her basking spot covered in sand! so i picked her up (no hissing or puffing up which is how she normally is) and i had a little feel and you can...
Hey again!!
I asked my mum to pop round and have a look at her as im at work and she is back digging again in another spot!
The eggs will be unfertile so im not worried about them....
i will check her when i get home and give another update..... i feel like such a burden keep asking...
thanks Clair.....
ok i just went home for lunch as shes back on her basking spot and the hole has been covered up!!!
she stills looks a little fat but i think she was a little overweight anyway.... i sprayed her and she had a drink off the leaves.... i offered her food but she wasnt...
Hi Clair,
Yes thats right I ment like the syringes that mum's give medicine to kids with.
So drinking too quick can cause her to take too much air in? Ok thanks I will be careful of that....
Hi there.... my veiled is digging as i type this..... if you see my recent thread here.....
https://www.chameleonforums.com/shes-digging-54120/
on page 2 it has some pics of my temporary first laying bin and the new one which i put in her cage this week... its working for me.... its 14"...