Hpyrok
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Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Veiled Chameleon, Male, unsure of age, we have had him since September 30, 2020.
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
About 1-3 per month, if he wants to come out.
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham?
Crickets
Hornworms
Dubia Roaches
What amount?
Crickets: 10-15 depending on size
Hornworms: 2-4 depending on size
Dubia Roaches: 2-3 if eating well
What is the schedule? I rotate these foods daily to every other day depending if he is eating well. If he isn’t eating well, I wait a day or two.
How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Crickets and Dubia: Bug burger, Josh’s Frogs Cricket food, greens (mustard or collard), potato (sparingly), carrots, banana (for roaches)
Repashy for hornworms
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
RepCal Calcium without D3: daily
RepCal Calcium with D3: every 2 weeks
RepCal Herptivite:every 2 weeks
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use?
MistKing with 1 nozzle
Distilled water only
How often and how long to you mist?
Timers set every hour to run 1 min for earlier sessions and 30 secs for later afternoon sessions.
Timers run every hour on the 45 min mark from 7:45am-4:45pm
Do you see your chameleon drinking?
I have seen him actively drink in the past, but not since I upgraded my misting timer to have 10 sessions.
Fecal Description - Recent feces have been few and far between, dry, dark brown and on 2/1 had some blood on a small dry piece. On occasion, when normal with lighter brown color and moisture, it may contain bug parts.
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
Yes. Has been treated for Giardia in the past.
History - I purchased him from Petland who claimed he was surrendered to them. He was originally in their 18x18 Reptibreeze with another chameleon that had died. I couldn’t get him out of there fast enough. He was full sized, but they called him a juvenile. However, they had no idea of his age. My vet said that he has some scars, but is in pretty good shape.
Cage Info:
Reptibreeze XL 24x24x48”
Lighting - What brand: ZooMed ReptiSun 5.0UVB and a household halogen bulb in a ZooMed deep dome double light
Arcadia 22” D3 Reptile lamp
And a plant light.
All are on top of the vivarium.
What is your daily lighting schedule?
Timer comes on at 7am and goes off at 7pm
Temperature -
Bottom of cage 65 degrees using a dial thermometer that sits on the bottom
Basking area 79-80 degrees spot check using a Winters brand NCT150
The middle of the enclosure is about 70-71 with spot checking
Lowest overnight temp?
The overnight bottom temp is 65
The top is 71-75ish with spot checking with temp gun
Humidity - The lowest humidity is 40% in the morning and without recent plant watering. After plants are watered, it stays lowest at about 50/55%. After misting session it goes to about 70% and then dries back down to 50/55%.
How are you creating and maintaining these levels?
There are live plants in pots on the floor of the enclosure, artificial plants and perches/vines throughout the middle to the top.
What do you use to measure humidity?
A dial humidity gauge from Petco
Plants - Are you using live plants? Yes
If so, what kind? All plants are from Josh’s Frogs Chameleon plant grouping Pothos, money tree, etc.
Placement -
The vivarium is in our low traffic bonus room with a 75 gallon turtle tank. It is up on a card table. The floor vents have covers to direct the air away from the vivarium. There are ceiling fans that my daughter accidentally turns on at times. There is also a wall vent that is probably 12-15 away, but at the same high as the vivarium. The top of the vivarium is about 7’ from the ground. I do have a small radiator on low near the table holding the viv since this room is above our garage.
At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? About 7’
Location - Where are you geographically located?
St. Louis, MO
Current Problem -
Probably dehydration.
Bishop is not eating much, not producing many droppings. Had blood with the feces on Monday. Never quite gets all of his shedded skin off. He is less active than usual and generally likes to come out at times, but less so in the past month. When we brought him home, he was missing nails on one of his hind feet. They seem to be growing little nubs now. Twice recently, I have noticed him hold one of his legs with another leg one time. He is such a nice chameleon and had apparently a rough start, I want to give Bishop his best life.
I am now schooling myself with Chameleon Academy. I realize that my humidity levels and times are all wrong.
I added a Fogger and a cool must vaporizer on Tuesday. Bishop hangs out by the incoming fogger tube. I am letting it run all the time. I know he is dehydrated with lack of poop and he looks a little dry at times.
Veiled Chameleon, Male, unsure of age, we have had him since September 30, 2020.
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
About 1-3 per month, if he wants to come out.
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham?
Crickets
Hornworms
Dubia Roaches
What amount?
Crickets: 10-15 depending on size
Hornworms: 2-4 depending on size
Dubia Roaches: 2-3 if eating well
What is the schedule? I rotate these foods daily to every other day depending if he is eating well. If he isn’t eating well, I wait a day or two.
How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Crickets and Dubia: Bug burger, Josh’s Frogs Cricket food, greens (mustard or collard), potato (sparingly), carrots, banana (for roaches)
Repashy for hornworms
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
RepCal Calcium without D3: daily
RepCal Calcium with D3: every 2 weeks
RepCal Herptivite:every 2 weeks
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use?
MistKing with 1 nozzle
Distilled water only
How often and how long to you mist?
Timers set every hour to run 1 min for earlier sessions and 30 secs for later afternoon sessions.
Timers run every hour on the 45 min mark from 7:45am-4:45pm
Do you see your chameleon drinking?
I have seen him actively drink in the past, but not since I upgraded my misting timer to have 10 sessions.
Fecal Description - Recent feces have been few and far between, dry, dark brown and on 2/1 had some blood on a small dry piece. On occasion, when normal with lighter brown color and moisture, it may contain bug parts.
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
Yes. Has been treated for Giardia in the past.
History - I purchased him from Petland who claimed he was surrendered to them. He was originally in their 18x18 Reptibreeze with another chameleon that had died. I couldn’t get him out of there fast enough. He was full sized, but they called him a juvenile. However, they had no idea of his age. My vet said that he has some scars, but is in pretty good shape.
Cage Info:
Reptibreeze XL 24x24x48”
Lighting - What brand: ZooMed ReptiSun 5.0UVB and a household halogen bulb in a ZooMed deep dome double light
Arcadia 22” D3 Reptile lamp
And a plant light.
All are on top of the vivarium.
What is your daily lighting schedule?
Timer comes on at 7am and goes off at 7pm
Temperature -
Bottom of cage 65 degrees using a dial thermometer that sits on the bottom
Basking area 79-80 degrees spot check using a Winters brand NCT150
The middle of the enclosure is about 70-71 with spot checking
Lowest overnight temp?
The overnight bottom temp is 65
The top is 71-75ish with spot checking with temp gun
Humidity - The lowest humidity is 40% in the morning and without recent plant watering. After plants are watered, it stays lowest at about 50/55%. After misting session it goes to about 70% and then dries back down to 50/55%.
How are you creating and maintaining these levels?
There are live plants in pots on the floor of the enclosure, artificial plants and perches/vines throughout the middle to the top.
What do you use to measure humidity?
A dial humidity gauge from Petco
Plants - Are you using live plants? Yes
If so, what kind? All plants are from Josh’s Frogs Chameleon plant grouping Pothos, money tree, etc.
Placement -
The vivarium is in our low traffic bonus room with a 75 gallon turtle tank. It is up on a card table. The floor vents have covers to direct the air away from the vivarium. There are ceiling fans that my daughter accidentally turns on at times. There is also a wall vent that is probably 12-15 away, but at the same high as the vivarium. The top of the vivarium is about 7’ from the ground. I do have a small radiator on low near the table holding the viv since this room is above our garage.
At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? About 7’
Location - Where are you geographically located?
St. Louis, MO
Current Problem -
Probably dehydration.
Bishop is not eating much, not producing many droppings. Had blood with the feces on Monday. Never quite gets all of his shedded skin off. He is less active than usual and generally likes to come out at times, but less so in the past month. When we brought him home, he was missing nails on one of his hind feet. They seem to be growing little nubs now. Twice recently, I have noticed him hold one of his legs with another leg one time. He is such a nice chameleon and had apparently a rough start, I want to give Bishop his best life.
I am now schooling myself with Chameleon Academy. I realize that my humidity levels and times are all wrong.
I added a Fogger and a cool must vaporizer on Tuesday. Bishop hangs out by the incoming fogger tube. I am letting it run all the time. I know he is dehydrated with lack of poop and he looks a little dry at times.
