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" ◦ Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? He eats daily a combination of crickets black solder flies Treats are horn worms and superworms I gutload the crickets with the forum seller Andees gutload "

Probably stress, though that can’t explain the odd walking.

Are you planning on placing the cham in a classroom or some type of hallway? My college chemistry teacher had a Jackson's chameleon; the enclosure was placed in the back by the lab tables so no one really walked about back there unless it was to briefly grab something. Additionally, the view of...

Are your UVB's reptisun 5.0 compacts or linear? Compacts are supposedly* responsible for eye damage in some chameleons, especially if they are exposed to them over long periods of time and/or they are very close to the compacts. I don't know how accurate that statement is, since lots of people...

Looks female to me.

The enclosure is way too small; lack of space is probably an issue. Go for a 24x24x48 or 18x18x36 for female...Your lights seem fine, but take out that substrate (dirt) you have on the bottom.

Room temperature...

Could you post some pictures and additional info?

Probably necrotic tissue or something close to it. The amount and degree of light to cause what you are describing would be unrealistic in a chameleon enclosure unless he wrapped his tail around the bulb or something. Also if it's a burn you would probably see burns in other parts of his body...

Feeders shouldn't be wider than the distance between your cham's eyes. 1/4 for a 3-month chameleon sounds completely normal.

Pinching/rubbing both sides of a cham's mouth always works for me. On a separate note, are you supplying him with multivitamins? I'm not familiar with sticky tongue supplements, so excuse my statement if they contain multivitamins.

Mine is set right before lights turn on, around midday, and then before lights turn off. I do 3 minutes each time for panthers. Some people suggest upwards of 5+ minutes; it's really up to you. I've never encountered eye or dehydration problems with my schedule.

Take care of your financial situation first...Linear UVBs and fixtures are quite expensive. Compact bulbs don't have the spread and uniformity of a linear UVB bulb but if your cham is directly under the bulb they'll still receive UVB through the compact's strictly conical spread.

Well, if you buy his products not really :P

What? Settle down, mate, that wasn't my point. I was just perpetuating the point that as a new cham keeper hosting a chameleon with MBD, he should be focusing on getting the right cage, lights, and correctly feeding crickets in the first place instead of raising a snail colony, which frankly...

Try local green houses? Maybe like a bruce company? I never had any luck at Walmart/Home depot, seems like they focus more on flowers and real garden plants. They have hibiscus though, which you need a grow light for if I remember correctly.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/plants/ Check this link out! There are a host of other nice plants and even ficus/schefflera subspecies that are great too, but make sure they aren't toxic (FLchams has a nice list). I personally prefer plants with branches, vines, as opposed to big leaves...

This seems like an awesome yet extravagant solution that a new cham keeper probably shouldn't be focusing on...maybe the basics first? :P

Schefflera is a great one too. Pothos is a staple, make sure to get one of those, I almost forgot.

Ficus or Umbrella.