Everything's going wrong

[SMCNARY]

You can put together a cheep but very effective drip system for around$30.00 or so, lowes and homedepot sell everything you need and they work fantastic !!!
Let me know if I can help, I failed my first try but figured it out. You don't want to make the same mistakes I and others have made but again if I can help just let me know
Steve

 

[fluxlizard]

IMO,

Adults seem to go through cycles where they eat like pigs or rarely. Don't stress, Watch his poo(frequency) and his weight. If he is pooing regularly and not losing weight, then let him do his thing.

This assumes your bulbs/temps are up to specs.

Jason

I think this is pretty good advice. Watch his weight and visible fat stores on the back of his head and along his spine. If he's keeping weight, I wouldn't worry overly much.

If you are uncomfortable with cycles Jason is describing, you can limit food available when you do feed- feed lesser amounts and watch his weight to see if you need to increase or decrease until you get it about right. Some of my melleri were really bad to gorge and then fast. By counting bugs and limiting the amount fed, I figured out how many to feed to keep them consistently feeding, yet keep good weight.

The most important clue whatever you decide to do- watch the weight of the lizard in question. If there is a serious problem, he'll usually loose weight.

You can put together a cheep but very effective drip system for around$30.00 or so, lowes and homedepot sell everything you need and they work fantastic !!!

Even cheaper if you want. Someone recently posted about it but all you need is some sort of resevoir like a 2 liter soda container or 1/2 gallon plastic pail, an aquarium air valve, some airline tubing and a little silicone aquarium glue. Drill a hole appropriate for the size of the air valve near the bottom of the resevoir container of your choice, stick the air valve into the hole and seal around the hole with the silicone. Stick the airline tubing on the valve, put the whole shebang on a shelf above your cage and run the tubing into the cage. Fill the resevoir and adjust the air-valve to get the drip rate that your lizard responds best to. Cost is probably like $5-8 depending on the cost of the silicone which is the most expensive thing necessary.

 

[ChamyLove]

You can put together a cheep but very effective drip system for around$30.00 or so, lowes and homedepot sell everything you need and they work fantastic !!!
Let me know if I can help, I failed my first try but figured it out. You don't want to make the same mistakes I and others have made but again if I can help just let me know
Steve

Do you mean like a rain dome? I forget who said it, but someone mentioned that they have a Tupperware and just poked holes in the bottom. I tried that and he absolutely hated it.

If you mean just a regular dripper, I use plastic water bottles that I poke a hole in the bottom and it drips almost all day.

 

[Tay And A]

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[carol5208]

You have been given all the advice you need so I just wanted to say, if that is your chameleon that is pictured in your avatar he looks beautiful!!!! Can you post some more pics of him? I love the blue on blue chams!!