Dusting Food

[Zoey]

Yeah too many chameleons to watch with only two eyes

Better safe then sorry.


Last thing anyone needs is there $100++ Chameleon "Running" away from home.

 

[Scotty]

My regime:
Everday dust with calcium,
Twice monthly dust with Calcium + D3
Twice monthly dust with multi-Vits...
And as Kinyonga says, gutload well and that's half the battle!
seems to be doing great!
Cheers
scott.

 

[Zoey]

Thanks for the help Scotty

 

[Kevin1873]

Calcium Powder with D3 (Mon & Thurs)
Calcium Powder without D3 (Tues & Fri)
Herptivite (or other multivitamin) (Wed) or every other Wednesday depending on age.
Nothing on (Sat) and (Sun)

 

[Zoey]

Calcium Powder with D3 (Mon & Thurs)
Calcium Powder without D3 (Tues & Fri)
Herptivite (or other multivitamin) (Wed) or every other Wednesday depending on age.
Nothing on (Sat) and (Sun)

Thanks! I'm still trying to find calcium without D3 I have to go to another petstore tomorrow and see if they have any.

 

[Kevin1873]

This is what it will look like, It'll have the green label instead of the pink. I know PETCO and PetSmart carries it for sure.

http://www.reptilesupply.com/product.php?products_id=119

 

[Zoey]

Okay I will have to look next time I go into Petsmart. If not I will order it offline. I try to avoide Petco because I don't like the way they house their animals that are for sale, but I may break that to see if they have the stuff I need, just this once

 

[Dave Weldon]

...How warm does it have to be to put the Chameleon cages outside for a bit...

Howdy,

I meant to post this last weekend...

There was some discussion on the UVB_Meter_Owners group site a while back about reptile body temp vs. outdoor air temp. My chameleon's skin temp was 86F while the outdoor air temp was 60F. It was a nice sunny day with a very mild breeze and the humidity was probably around 40%. Although air temp and humidity play a big role in body temp, I think that the infrared energy reaching the chameleon's skin is likely to be a bigger factor in determining the chameleon's body temp. Yet another good reason to have an infrared temp meter . When the outdoor air temp was in the low to mid 70's their body temp was closer to 100F before they moved into the shady parts of their outdoor plants.

By the way, if money is tight but you still want a cheapie infrared temp meter, the Harbor Freight Tools online store has this one on sale for $7 eek: ITEM 93983-2VGA http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93983. The last time that sale price came along, I bought a few to have on-hand for other keepers. They work ok. The drawback between this one and a better one is it has a distance to spot ratio of 1:1 which means that you'll need to get within an inch of the skin to get a decent reading. Better ones from other places are 6:1 or 8:1 but expect to pay $20-$100.

 

[Zoey]

Howdy,

I meant to post this last weekend...

There was some discussion on the UVB_Meter_Owners group site a while back about reptile body temp vs. outdoor air temp. My chameleon's skin temp was 86F while the outdoor air temp was 60F. It was a nice sunny day with a very mild breeze and the humidity was probably around 40%. Although air temp and humidity play a big role in body temp, I think that the infrared energy reaching the chameleon's skin is likely to be a bigger factor in determining the chameleon's body temp. Yet another good reason to have an infrared temp meter . When the outdoor air temp was in the low to mid 70's their body temp was closer to 100F before they moved into the shady parts of their outdoor plants.

By the way, if money is tight but you still want a cheapie infrared temp meter, the Harbor Freight Tools online store has this one on sale for $7 eek: ITEM 93983-2VGA http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93983. The last time that sale price came along, I bought a few to have on-hand for other keepers. They work ok. The drawback between this one and a better one is it has a distance to spot ratio of 1:1 which means that you'll need to get within an inch of the skin to get a decent reading. Better ones from other places are 6:1 or 8:1 but expect to pay $20-$100.

Thats really good to know thank you. Maybe we will swing by that store and see if they have any in. Thank you so much!