Freedom1
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· Your Chameleon - My chameleon is a female veiled who is almost 2 years old. I’ve had her in my care for a year and eight months or so.
· Handling - I handle my chameleon twice every week, sometimes more… if it’s a sunny day I like to take her outside.
· Feeding - I feed her 5-6 large feeders every other day in the morning so she has enough time to process the food. I gut load them with sweet potatoes, cilantro, kale, and sometimes apple. I use dubia roaches and crickets with and occasional hornedworm.
· Supplements - I lightly dust her feeders without d3 at almost every feeding. She gets her feeders dusted with d3 and multivitamin twice every month rotating each week. I use zoo-meds reptivite for her multivitamins and Flukers Repta calcium with d3.
· Watering - I spray her cage with warm water three times a day for about 2 minutes each. I also have a little dripper that I use. I usually don’t get to see her drinking but I have caught her a few timesJ
· Fecal Description - Her urates are mostly white with a yellow tip and her poop is dark brown.
· History - She has laid eggs about three times since I’ve gotten her. They were really large clutches at first but I was able to make them a little smaller by keeping her basking spot a little lower and feeding less. I believe that she might be gravid currently so I am making her laying bin.
has never been a problem for her.
· Handling - I handle my chameleon twice every week, sometimes more… if it’s a sunny day I like to take her outside.
· Feeding - I feed her 5-6 large feeders every other day in the morning so she has enough time to process the food. I gut load them with sweet potatoes, cilantro, kale, and sometimes apple. I use dubia roaches and crickets with and occasional hornedworm.
· Supplements - I lightly dust her feeders without d3 at almost every feeding. She gets her feeders dusted with d3 and multivitamin twice every month rotating each week. I use zoo-meds reptivite for her multivitamins and Flukers Repta calcium with d3.
· Watering - I spray her cage with warm water three times a day for about 2 minutes each. I also have a little dripper that I use. I usually don’t get to see her drinking but I have caught her a few timesJ
· Fecal Description - Her urates are mostly white with a yellow tip and her poop is dark brown.
· History - She has laid eggs about three times since I’ve gotten her. They were really large clutches at first but I was able to make them a little smaller by keeping her basking spot a little lower and feeding less. I believe that she might be gravid currently so I am making her laying bin.
- Cage Type - She has a screened in cage that is 16 by 16 by 30. I have it sitting on a small sturdy table which is 18 inches tall. I want to get a bigger cage so I can have the laying bin in full time so any recommendations would be great. I just don’t want to get her a new cage now because she could be gravid and I don’t want to add any more stress.
- Lighting - I am using the t5ho hood that goes all the way across the cage. I use the linear 5.0 uvb bulb and I have it at least 9 inches away from her basking spot. I use a dome fixture for her heat lamp which is a 60 watt daylight blue bulb. I want to know what other heat lamps I could use because I heard that the daylight blue one could hurt their eyes.
- Temperature - Her basking spot stays in the lower 80s while the bottom of the cage is around 70F. I measure these using a temperature gun. At night the temperature doesn’t drop below 60F.
- Humidity - I keep her humidity around 40% during the day. I use a hydrometer.
has never been a problem for her.
- Placement - It is in one of the warmest rooms in the house. It is near a fan but I don’t ever turn on the fan.
- Location - I am located in northern VA.
- I am just a concerned parent and I am wondering if you guys see anything wrong with her like MBD. I took her to the vet a couple of months ago and they said that she was MBD free but I am still paranoid. I am also looking for different recommendations for a bigger cage and a different heat lamp that I can try out. (I heard that the bluelight bulb can hurt their eyes)
