Chameleon staying on ground

[chameleoncherma]

Our chameleon has been staying on the ground for like four days. I have no idea if she is egg laying, she has two other times. It's just this time she is just laying the in the lay box, and acting lethargic. She just sits there, I don't wanna disturb er or move her because she is laying and don't want her to be eggbound, so what should I do. She was also the runt of the litter, so I am not sure if that is afactor in all this or not

Also, she doesn't really eat much, or hunt fir the food, she will only eat if we hand feed her. I am not sure why because she used to hunt a year ago, I guess it is because my brother has hand fedd her and she's just used to it. We have her in a ReptiBreeze and she doesn't really climb too much. Like she is pretty weak, but we put calcium on the crickets and we have Uva Uvb and heat light. Any suggestions?


Thanks

 

[jpowell86]

The lay bin is not going to work. It needs to be at least 12 inches deep minimum and washed play sand should be the medium. How old is the UVB light?

 

[chameleoncherma]

The lay bin is not going to work. It needs to be at least 12 inches deep minimum and washed play sand should be the medium. How old is the UVB light?

We just got it in June. It doesn't have like any problems, it's like a strip light

 

[jpowell86]

I was curious because the issue is not that it won't turn on. UVB lights loose their intensity after a while. You should change the bulb every 6 months. What are the temps in the enclosure...both basking and ambient?

 

[chameleoncherma]

I was curious because the issue is not that it won't turn on. UVB lights loose their intensity after a while. You should change the bulb every 6 months. What are the temps in the enclosure...both basking and ambient?

Basking is about 90 and ambient is 84 farenheit of course

 

[jpowell86]

Well of course! The laying bin should be changed out as soon as possible.

 

[chameleoncherma]

Well of course! The laying bin should be changed out as soon as possible.

Ok, I'll find her something, anything in particular you use?

 

[kinyonga]

Is that the bin she laid the eggs in before? Did she dig a hole and lay the eggs in it and fill it in each time she, aid eggs so far? What supplements SPECIFICALLY are you using and how often for each? What do you feed / gutload the insects with specifically? What is the basking temperature?

 

[chameleoncherma]

Is that the bin she laid the eggs in before? Did she dig a hole and lay the eggs in it and fill it in each time she, aid eggs so far? What supplements SPECIFICALLY are you using and how often for each? What do you feed / gutload the insects with specifically? What is the basking temperature?

She usually lays them in the eco earth we had at the bottom, but now we have a reptibreeze, so we had to change to the bark, and stick a box in there, we had at least 8 inches before that, and no problems. I feed the crickets on lettuce and carrots and the occasional apple. I put the gel in there, but the fruits do a better job of food and water, the supplement is repticalcium from zoo med and herptivite, which has vitamins. She normally laid them fine

 

[alphakenc]

Try get at least 5 gallons bucket with 10inches pure clean sands in there keep it dark and quiet,wait and see what happen....yup...yup