Adopted a very very thin chamo she won't eat. Help!

[GCash]

I paid attention and the last thing you replied was that you would "rethink them living together". If you came to this site to get knowledge, you shouldn't fight the sound advice that was kindly offered to you. Offending the very people who are trying to help you and your chameleon is the fastest way to feel like you're being scolded even if you're not. There comes a point where urgency takes the form of bluntness. Separating them to alleviate stress and making them feel secure IS the first crucial step to helping them get better. What you may think of them enjoying the comfort of each other could be them competing for the most favorable spots in the enclosure. Please don't take additional offense to this post either. There is a vast wealth of knowledge within this forum that is courteously given for nothing more than the love of the animals and it's very hard for these people to have their reasonable advice met with resistance when they are just trying to help. No hard feelings. Lets grow from here. Good luck with your chameleons.

 

[kinyonga]

Try taking the other chameleon out of the cage and out of sight of Pascal and offer Pascal some food and see if it eats.

 

[Montium]

Why ask for help if you won't listen to those trying to help? This always boggles my mind. Some of the folks on here have been doing this for decades. It is rare in the extreme that two calyptratus are going to live together without stressing each other to death. As new born animals? sure for a little while you can get away with it but you still risk injury or death. They need to be in separate housing and blocked visually from seeing each other, they are not puppies or kittens, there is not litter bond. If you would like them to live and do well, you will separate them and get them to a vet with solid cham experience, not snakes or tortoises or monitors.

Sorry if this seems like " attacking " you. You have come to a place where people are passionate about these animals and it tears a little piece of their souls every time a post like this comes around and then the poster want to disagree or argue. There are well known vets on this board, people with doctorates and often they no longer post because post like this seem to be a never ending cycle.

This is anything but a cheap hobby. You might be able to buy veiled chams for $20 each but if you are going to care for them correctly you are going to spend ten times that just to get started. If you don't care and just want to have a " cool " pet to show your friends, then it will continue to go down hill and end painfully for the animal.

So the choice is yours. Do some research, use the search feature on the site and you can find a world of information that will help your animal live a great life. Or you can ignore the advise, do what has obviously been working so well and watch an animal die or in this case two.

I personally hope you do some research and listen. Some folks may actually be wrong with their advice but when you have multiple people telling you the same thing, perhaps it's time to give it a try.

 

[leedragon]

yes they where born together, and yemens can be keep together for the first 1-2 months but no at the size he is, the reason he may no be eating is because there is an other chameleon stressing him out, by a cheap londery basket and use it to house him until you get a proper enclosure, if he still doesnt eat give him some waxworms dusted with mineral all calcium ( that's the name of the brand) at this state it doesnt matter if the calcium has or hasnt d3, but this is a last resort and proper amount of water ( 2 misting a day) and well gutloaded fubias should be offered