Cham sure are hard sleepers

[codiwatkins]

So I have been trying to get in the habit of shutting off all of Esters lights right at nine so i kinda get a routine with everything anyways.....I went to the movies today and got home around 920 and he was on his branch that he has slept on the past 6 nights crashed out!!!!

I think that is just so funny!! He sleeps all curled up to like a little cham in a egg!! Even with my 3 year old son being loud as usual he just stayed asleep??

This is normal right?? I find my self being exstremly worried ALL THE DAMN TIME! i guess since i am new to all of this??? So how do yalls chams act at night or when they are sleeping?

 

[rachelk]

well chams are pretty much deaf so your son being loud wouldn't wake him, unless he shook the cage, i've read they feel vibrations real easy in their plants,

you should set your lights on a timer, that way you don't have to worry about turning them off at the exact time every night, it is very helpful,

also, i had to move my cham once while he was asleep and he didn't even know he was being picked up, he didn't wake up! they are very heavy sleepers i think,

 

[ChamNovice]

Once he is asleep, he is out for the night, unless I start turning on lights in the room, he'll slowly wake up for that, and gives me his "evil eye". He's exceptionally good at the evil eye thing.

 

[codiwatkins]

hahaha ok that is good to know!! They are def good at the evil eye!! i swear ester hates my son everytime he comes near him he gets all puffy

 

[ken2414]

one time i had to move my chameleon in his cage and when he woke up he seemed to freak out cuz he wasnt in the same place wheere he went to bed

 

[Malicious]

My female fell asleep 3-4 nights ago upside down at the top of the cage. I kept an eye on her: 9:00pm all 4 legs attached.....9:25pm 3 legs attached........10:15 2 legs attached(tail around the vine by her)......11:00pm I hear a noise in the cage, so I look and she got 1 front leg attached to the screen, and balancing with her tail. She was out cold!! I said ok..ok enough is enough! So I went in the cage and moved her to a safe branch right side up. If I had not moved her I 99% guarentee I would have heard a thud before mid night...



-Jay

 

[chaMELeon012409]

Mine will sleep about anywhere. I know I woke up early to take her to a show, and once she came to (after at least a full 60 seconds of prodding) she got all puffed up and started hissing at me and it startled me because she never did that before. I found my work gloves and handled her with those until I had her in the car when she hid in the corner and fell asleep again. I think they REALLY enjoy their sleep.

 

[Rocky]

My female fell asleep 3-4 nights ago upside down at the top of the cage. I kept an eye on her: 9:00pm all 4 legs attached.....9:25pm 3 legs attached........10:15 2 legs attached(tail around the vine by her)......11:00pm I hear a noise in the cage, so I look and she got 1 front leg attached to the screen, and balancing with her tail. She was out cold!! I said ok..ok enough is enough! So I went in the cage and moved her to a safe branch right side up. If I had not moved her I 99% guarentee I would have heard a thud before mid night...



-Jay

my male veiled sleeps upside down all the time I watched him the first couple times, but he never slipped.

are chams really def?

 

[GooglezNvincent]

So I have been trying to get in the habit of shutting off all of Esters lights right at nine so i kinda get a routine with everything anyways.....I went to the movies today and got home around 920 and he was on his branch that he has slept on the past 6 nights crashed out!!!!

I think that is just so funny!! He sleeps all curled up to like a little cham in a egg!! Even with my 3 year old son being loud as usual he just stayed asleep??

This is normal right?? I find my self being exstremly worried ALL THE DAMN TIME! i guess since i am new to all of this??? So how do yalls chams act at night or when they are sleeping?

Funniest thing, if yuor cham is like mine, you should try slowing picking him up when hes sleeping. My male 6 month old Nosy Be will, with his eyes closed, start shaking and headbutting my hand until i leave him alone. I was laughing so hard when he did it so i just let him sleep.

 

[jojackson]

They are weirdly fragile in that regard, I hate to disturb mine after lights off. He gets up and starts roaming as soon as theres any major light in the room, can be quite clumbsy, seems like they dont wake up very quickly but still move fast.
Mine likes to stetch out, right side up clinging to the branch about midway up the cage, just above the lower plants. Sometimes ontop the canopy of a med sized ficus.
If you realise you've woken him and suddenly switch the light off, Hell end up in the weirdest places and angles, just keeps walking then stops dead in the dark. I leave him from an hour before lights off till the lights come on in the morning.

 

[Docility]

tonight he decided to hit the hay around 11:55 instead of 12, but my bad i woke him up early today, and have corrected that with a 8.55$ brinks auto timer, but anyway. I installed my new mist king today which i must say rocks! (and is super quiet) It popped on, and where the hose vibrates it must have done that to his cage he poped up, and jumped in the air i thought i was going to die laughing. i feel sorry for him, but man i have never seen a chameleon do anything like that!

 

[jojackson]

tonight he decided to hit the hay around 11:55 instead of 12,

How many daylight hrs are you giving it?

 

[ciafardo 4]

Once he is asleep, he is out for the night, unless I start turning on lights in the room, he'll slowly wake up for that, and gives me his "evil eye". He's exceptionally good at the evil eye thing.

hey i know this eye you speak of some of mine do this and quite frankly it scares me !hahahahaha

 

[Lille]

Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. If we're coming home from a late night we need the lights on to get through the house. He'll finally wake up, won't move...but stares...soul piercing stare...

Sometimes he'll even lean around obstacles in his view just to stare.

 

[codiwatkins]

hahaha i dont think I really realized how much personailty they really do have its quite amusing!! I dont really get some people pn here that say they dont do anything!! I guess Im not just a chameleon watcher what a people watcher as well!! I could go and sit and watch people at a coffee shop all day longI guess thats why I like to sit and watch ester too!!

 

[Lille]

I get alot more enjoyment out of watching my cham than I thought I would. They're just so intriguing! I was just telling my boyfriend last night that I can see why you can't have just one.

 

[hallenhe]

Once in a great while I've had to pick up and move a chameleon when he's asleep. I can coax him onto my hand with some difficulty (he won't open his eyes, if he can help it), but getting him off again is really difficult, because he grips with all four feet and seems determined to spend the night on my hand.
Last month, he was on the back of the couch in the evening, my husband sat down, Thaxter strolled down him from shoulder to foot, and decided he'd like to sleep on my husband's shoe. (He was coaxed to his usual roost before he was able to get too deeply asleep.)

 

[greeneyes78]

"Also, like snakes, they lack an outer or a middle ear. This suggests that chameleons might be deaf, although it should be noted that snakes can hear using a bone called the quadrate to transmit sound to the inner ear. Furthermore, some or maybe all chameleons, can communicate via vibrations that travel through solid material like branches."

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Chameleon

Basically, they probably have an inner ear , but don't use it in the same way we (or other animals) do. They use vibrations instead.