Veild Cham Owner
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- Your Chameleon - Veild, male, 10 months (we think), I got him in Febuary 2016, the pet store said he was about 2-3 months but bc he was so tiny we assumed he was only 2.
- Handling - Everyday, he will scratch at the cage door u till I let him out in his free range.
- Feeding - I feed him large crx on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He has about 7-10. The days he doesn't eat crx he was supers and fruits and veggies. He also on occasions will eat hornworms. I gut load with fruits and veggies at my house mainly kale, romaine lettuce, strawberries, Apple, carrots and broccoli.
- Supplements - I dust crx everyday with calcium w/ d3 everyday but on Sunday's he switches off from d3 to multivitamins everyother Sunday. I use reptical or his calciums and I use rep-cal for multi
- Watering - I have an automatic mister. It goes off for one min everyother hour (the misters r pretty strong so it gets everything soaked in one min) when I see he is dehydrated I bring it up to 2 mins everyother hour. It turns on at 6am and turns off at 6:15pm I have seen him drink maybe like 5 times but Ik he is hydrated by his urine.
- Fecal Description - Poop is brown and solid and his urine is white. Sometimes it will be yellow but I will just up his misting. yes I had him tested for parasites when he was about 6 months and he had none!!
- History - i bought him from my local petstore. He was basically starved and ate about 20 crx a day for about a month then slowed down to 15 now he eats about 7. He is such a sweetheart, he loves to be socialized with, loves being held by my friends and family and loves to be out of his cage. He even doesn't seem to mind my dog!! He is insanely active and the only time he stops is to bask and when he starts get get tired around 5pm.
- Cage Type - He is in a screen repibreeze cage. 4ft tall 2 ft wide and 2 ft deep
- Lighting - he has 3 lights, two 75 watt heat bulbs and one 10.0 uvb bulb. I also bring him to bask the natural sunlight almost everyday at my window (I keep it open when I do that but I will have to stop soon bc it it starting to get cold
) I also bring him out a lot during the summer. his uvb Light turns on at 5:40am and his two 75's turn on at 5:55am bc i have school at 7:30. All turn off at 7pm, I will be changing that to 6 soon bc of it getting darker out sooner. - Temperature - His basking temp is about 85 but when he sits there long enough he gets hot and moves down the cage or starts to move around a lil bit. My room is about 75 so that is about what the bottom of the cage is. The lowest it gets in my house over night is 63 then the heat turns on to get it warmer. I have a temperature reader In there.
- Humidity - it usually stays Inbetween 70%-80% in his cage. I have the mister going off to keep it humid and the plants keep it humid. I have a lil humidor hanging on one of the vines.
- Plants - yes I use live plants. I have 3 big golden Pothos in there that he will on occasion munch on. I also have fake leave hanging on the side to catch some water and fake vines. I also have real sticks I collected form outside and him to climb on. I also have bird ladders in his cage to climb on lol
- Placement - His cage is in my room. I do keep a fan on but I only put it on at night to help me sleep and durring the summer I will have it on for a couple hours but only when it gets over 95 degrees outside. his cage is on top of an old coffee table wich is on top of a vent but that vent sucks up dust in my room so nothing gets blasted on him. I'd say the top of his cage is at 6 ft.
- Location - we live in Massachusetts.
Current Problem - today at 6:30pm I went up to my room to go take a shower and I had noticed Castiel was already sleeping...with his lights on. Ik from previous chanleoens that sleepin with lights on is not a good sign. I had never seen him do this before. The things that kinda got me wondering if he was ok was that he had been in the same spot since about 3pm and only had about 4 crx today (he did eat 8 yesterday tho) I tapped on the screen to wake up him up, he woke up, I ran downstairs to tell my dad, went back up and he had already fallen asleep. It's just not like him to be this tired!! He was so active today, almost out of his cage for a whole hour!! I post crazy stories of him all the time and then this kinda got me a lil worried
It was pretty dark in my room and he was at the bottom of his cage but his main lights were still on. am I over reacting or should I be worried and possibly look into a vet appnt? (The last 3 pics are from him sleeping with the lights on)
