Does he look healthy?

[ChameleonKing1911]

I'm not worrying too much about my juvenile veiled chameleon because he seems to be acting all normal eating about 4-5 crickets a day. I see him shoot his tongue at water so I know he is hydrated. I bought him from Petsmart because they were treating him poorly and I got a discount. I have had this male veiled chameleon (smeegle) for 3 days. He moves very actively and he is always a bright green and turns brown when hungry (after I feed him, his brown returns to green). I see him climbing all around the cage (slowly). I try feeding him more than 4-5 crickets but he wont take more than he wants. He loves to be handled and crawls to my shoulder and stays there for 10-15 minutes before he starts reaching for his cage (that's how I know he wants to get back). Here are a few pics of Smeegle. Does he look healthy? I started supplementing him and hydrating him with 50 percent humidity so he seems to be doing fine. How do you think he looks? (He is scared of the camera so he may look at little stressed )

 

[ataraxia]

Looks good.

This is a good read https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/chameleons/

 

[christineacero]

he seems to look healthy! Very handsome little guy.

One thing I noticed though is that your enclosure looks a little sparse. You want to fill that cage with foliage and horizontal and vertical vines/ twigs of different sizes. He may be a bit stressed because hes feeling exposed right now. Just a thought

 

[anwisnie]

He looks pretty good from what I've seen on here. They have one they don't raise well at my local Petsmart also. Bad practices at the big pet stores I guess.

 

[jannb]

Welcome to the forums and congrats on your new chameleon. He looks good but he should be eating way more than 4 to 5 crickets a day. What size crickets are you feeding him? He should be eating 12 to 15 3/8 to 1/2 inch well gutloaded crickets a day IF crickets are all that you are feeding him. He needs a variety of feeders and not just crickets. Try some roaches, flies, moths, silkworms, Butterworms, Phoenix worms, suoerworms and small hornworms. Hopefully he's just not eating much since he's still settling in. Below is a link to my blog for new keepers and the link provided above is excellent also.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-keepers-young-veiled-panther-chameleons.html