Veild Cham Owner
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Chameleon Info:
Cage Info:
Current Problem - my chameleon has not properly eaten a full meal since the beginning of august. i will put 10 crx in his bucket and will come home to there being 7 left and that all he will eat for the week. he will only eat some worms at a time (like 2) then think thats all he will need for food. I thought that not giving him food for a couple days would make him hungry... nope just made him eat less. he wont even eat his favorite fruits anymore he just looks at it and runs out of the cage. I just recently had him at the vet 2 months ago for a healt check and the vet said he is the healthiest chameleon he has ever seen. I have almost given up im not sure what to do anymore he just refuses to eat
if anyone has any idea please reply.
- Your Chameleon - veiled, male, 1 1/2 ish . ever since he was 2 months
- Handling - basically everyday, he walks out of his cage on his own and goes to his mini free range. I dont hold him i carry him on a stick. he enjoys it, he will often fall asleep on my bed or on his freerange
- Feeding - i usually feed him 8-10 crx everyday. I will also buy horn worms, supers, wax and catch the occasional dragon fly for him.On Sundays he gets fruits and veggies, carrots, romaine lettuce, celery, broccoli, apples, strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe ext. His feeding days are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I will gut load the crx with any veggies or fruit i can find in the house, romaine lettuce, carrots, broccoli, strawberries, apples, grapes.
- Supplements - i use repti-cal for both his calcium w/o d3 and his multivitamins. he gets natural sunlight almost everyday (if its sunny and warm out) and calcium w/o d3 everyday with feedings, but on Sunday when he gets his multivitamins
- Watering - I have a mistking set up for him which goes off every hour for 1 min. i have never seen him drink before but he often just gets hit in the face with the mister and will drink from there. If i see that he is severely dehydrated i will get my syringe and fill it up with water and drip it near his mouth and he will drink like that too.
- Fecal Description - last time i saw him poop was a week ago (not normal) and it was small and brown i saw him pee a couple days ago and it was half white and half yellow. Yes, he got tested at the beginning of this summer and last summer, both came back negative.
- History - i bought him from a petsmart when he was a tiny baby. He is very very moody but i love his personality. He general is pretty friendly, doesn't mind the dogs and everyone touching him he just doesn't like to be held, which is why i carry him on a stick. I had this problem with him last summer but not for this long. He likes to look out my window which i find to be absolutely adorable, and he will often fall asleep in his freerange after an afternoon of roaming around my room.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - He is in a 4ft tall by 2 feet wide by 2 feet deep screen cage. there are some fake plants in his cage but most are real. I have 3 golden pothos in there and all his sticks i have found from my back yard.
- Lighting - There are 3 lights in his cage, 2 heat lamps (both are 74 watt) and 1 10.0 uvb bulb which i change out every 6 months. His lights turn on at 6am and they turn off at 8pm.
- emperature - his basking spot is abt 85 and my room is always about 68-70 (which is what the bottom of his cage is). We dont let the house get cooler that 60 at night. I have a thermometer i bought at a petstore.
- Humidity - I never let the humidity get below 50% The mistking raises it and plus the live plants help keep it up. on the thermometer it has a humidity gauge.
- Plants - yes, golden pothos.
- Placement - his cage is in my room, my fan is on the other side of my room and his cage is on a 2 foot high table.
- Location - I live in Massachusetts
Current Problem - my chameleon has not properly eaten a full meal since the beginning of august. i will put 10 crx in his bucket and will come home to there being 7 left and that all he will eat for the week. he will only eat some worms at a time (like 2) then think thats all he will need for food. I thought that not giving him food for a couple days would make him hungry... nope just made him eat less. he wont even eat his favorite fruits anymore he just looks at it and runs out of the cage. I just recently had him at the vet 2 months ago for a healt check and the vet said he is the healthiest chameleon he has ever seen. I have almost given up im not sure what to do anymore he just refuses to eat
if anyone has any idea please reply.
