do I need to dust??

[leolover]

I have a 5 month old panther cham. He eats very well and often. I am probably giving him about 25-30 smaller crickets a day. I live out in the desert so there are not to many pet stores here that offer a wide size of crickets so I am still giving him small because the large crickets are to big... Ok anyways I questioned earlier about my cham having some white discharge from his nose to find out that I was over supplementing. I laid off on supplementing for about 4 days to make sure he was ok and the discharge had stopped. I started again with a schedule as follows

Rep-Cal Phosphorus-free Calcium with Vit. D3- MON and THURS
Rep-Cal Herptivite with Beta Carotene Mulitvitamins- TUES. and FRI.
Sticky toungue farms Miner-all- WED. and SAT
No supplementing on sunday.

Now I am seeing that he is still having the discharge. I dont over dust them. I only put a small pinch of supplement in the cup with about 20 crickets. I cant even see the powder on them. But I am also gutloading the crickets with a cricket feed. (little green moist squares) and also fresh greens. Do I need to do both? What am I doing wrong. I am following the supplementing schedule from my breeder. help....

 

[Tyminator]

its about time to start cutting back on the vitamins and D-3. I have a six month old, and i only D-3 and Vitamin once a week. I will soon cut that down to every other week.

 

[leolover]

ok so how should I be supplementing?? What schedule??

 

[dodolah]

i think by 6 months old, you can start reducing his daily intake of food.
Don't overfeed your juvenile.
I don't see anything wrong with your schedule.
Since your chameleon is getting older, you won't need supplementing as much as you did when he was a baby.
I lessen the supplementation by lessening his food ration (not too much).

You will have to find bigger size crickets soon. He might not want to eat if the crix are too small. If crickets in med size is not available, you can either have it shipped (online shopping) to you or try soft bodied grub (such as silkies and hornworms).

 

[Tyminator]

I kindof cut back a little bit on the food (bigger crickets of course). But my guy is pretty active and wants more and more. I try to get him 10 or more medium crickets a day. Thats probably not enough if he had a say. I do the D3 once a week, and multi vit once a week. Regular calcium 2-3 times a week.