Up for sale is my 1 year old male veild chameleon....
the
tank is about 1m high by 2/3m wide by 1/2 m deep. so its quite a big tank with sliding glass doors
comes with it fully furnished with leaves substrate and a wood tree. with vines and all that sort of stuff...comes with heat lamp...
also...i dnt understand how mbd works...surley its not a case where they wake up and have it all of a sudden.?????
he was fit as anything yesterday...ate about 4 bugs from my fingers quickly and without hesitation....
was moving about easily...climbing....and his grip was good
surely...
goes to be ussually at about 9.30...and wakes up when u do at 9...
his colour is normal...maybe slightly darker...
thort they went blakc or white when they are ill???
his legs look like there like spasming.....at full stretch with his hands wrapped down...like the same as us humans when we spasm...
hesstill trying to climb...its just not happening
erm the bulb is about 7 months old now..i was told every year at the place i bought my cham...so didnt think any thing of it..
just an update..that i held a locust in front of him..and he ate it..altho his tongue came out very slow...and he missed it twice...i had to kinda bring it to him as...
juts dnt get it...was watching him yesterday burning up and down his tank...he was hunting..and eating..and seem happy and was the same this morning...then within 2 hours he goes like tho :(
doctor said that he wil be lucky if he makes it thru the night. :(
yeh he reaches out for things and just waves his legs in random directions...
yesterday he was eating nicely..zappin bugsleft right and centre..
yes he is drinkin..i see him drinkin everytim ei spray him...
i shud also mention that he has just shed....not fully...only a few bits left on...
* Your Chameleon -9 month old veiled..had him 9 months
* Handling - once every 2 or 3 days
* Feeding - locusts and crickets...ussually about 5 a day
* Supplements - calcium dust 2 aweek
* Watering - sprayed him twice a day
* Fecal Description - i dunno...brown with the...
my vieled cham is 4 months and has just had a new big tank..
unfortionaly he seems to have a habit already of to climb on the coiled
UV bulb...
its very hot and dnt want him to burn himself but i cant watch him 24/7,,
iv tried rearanging his tank..but alwyas finds a way bk to the...
my baby veiled was tiny tiny..and had a URI.. i got prescriped baytril and gott old to orally giv it him 1 a day fir 7 days...
gettin him to open his mouth was so hard..and had a few days frustration!!!
eventruly i used to just hold the syringe in front of him with a dropletof it at the end...
i wouldnt use substrate realy...i just leave it glass bottom in my vivarium!..its easy to clean...
the subsrtate i used got damp...and held the moisture...and it created mould...and spores...i cudnt see it...but he ended up getting a URI...
substrate looks good..but its high maintenance!!
have a around a 3 to 4 month old male veiled...
just curious abouthis colour..during the day hes seems fine...but sumtimes his colour goes realllllly pale bright green..like almost white!! and same at night..he glows at night pretty much...
he eats and drinks normally..and goes nice...
hey have a 3 month old male veiled cham..
he ussually necks about 6 to 10 crickets or locusts every day
but recently hes barely eating 2 or 3 crickets atm???
he just looks at them..and doesnt bother with them
altho when i put locusts in he seems to go for themm..but still not as...
i know.....maybe its just bugs in the uk...u guys ever seen eight legged freaks!!! must be summet in the water!!! :D:D:D
im going for biggest cham in the world!!
yeh he is growing fast :D i love it..had a few probs at the start..but i blame lack of knowledge..lol
im not totally clued up..but i know a few more do's and dont;s lol
so yeh seems to be growin gup nicely..i will update every 4 weeks
:)
kewl....as i said..its jsut what they told me.....but i was abit hmmm..cus people said that they feed the babys tiny crikets..and im like...my cham would need like 30 of them cus they are so small compared!!!
so fed him meduim locusts and crickets....but ahwel!
i love...
well i thort that!! cus i was feeding him meduim crickets already..bigish ones aswell that he could only just manage.. but the place i bought said it was was 1 week old..and i got it a week later...
maybe he is slightly older then...even so the change is immense
:)
i read sumwher about upper and lower respitpry infections. maybe u shud reseach to see if the syntoms are the same.
when my cham got a URI the vet prescibed a daily does of 'baytril'....an antibiotic. for 1 week
altho it was hard to give him orally...sumtimes he took it...did that every...
ahh..fair enuf..so its normal...glad im seeing it then...my mate has a 2 year old male veiled i went to pick him up and it went for me....i shouted f***k and almost put the glass thru!!!!
butim glad this is associated with a good healthy cham..i shall prob cut down on the handeling side and...