I've never heard it was bad to give a chameleon a shallow warm bath, if you've heard other wise please enlighten me. But personally when I give them a warm bath their color changes to a nice "happy" color,but in this case it seems like the possible lack of branches and chameleons personal...
You got your beetles from a can of peoples food?! I would only feed my reptiles with insects that i know are clean and have eaten healthy foods. the problem with wild caught insects they could have anything in them poisen, virus, Ect..And anyways in my experience having a linear/long tube repti...
is your chameleon still alive? there were a lot of things that should have been mentioned in your post, such as, are you using a good UVB bulb PLUS basking bulb...I think i just had a problem with my year old male not getting enough UVB and him getting darker and sleepier during day.
I look...