Feeding worms

JLSPLINTER said:
About the water dish, I use it to collect the drops. It is only 1/2 inch drep so I clean it twice a day. The lamp that came with the kit is also a repti sun 5.0. The dracaena is pretty big and cover most of the back side of the cage. I also used the artificial plants that came with the kit.
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If you can please fill this out with detail we will be able to help you more for what needs to be corrected for you cham.

  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:

  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
  • Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

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Please Note:

  1. The more details you provide the better and more accurate help you will receive.
  2. Photos can be very helpful.
 
Beman said:
If you can please fill this out with detail we will be able to help you more for what needs to be corrected for you cham.

  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:

  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
  • Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

--------------

Please Note:

  1. The more details you provide the better and more accurate help you will receive.
  2. Photos can be very helpful.
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I attached to a previews reply at 11:25 today. Don't know if that is what I should do with the file
 
JLSPLINTER said:
I attached to a previews reply here.
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Ok I see you attached it in the text Document... I am going to pull it out of that and place directly in this post for @JacksJill to review. This will be easier for her to work from. :)

Chameleon Info:


Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? - Male Jackson age was not specified by vendor and I get him on July 10

Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? - Since I have him, I have let him out of the cage like 5 times since he seems to like the freedom. So I handle him to take him back to the cage.

Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? - Mostly Crickets and super worms so far. I got 15 silk and 15 horn worms and 50 wax worms. He was eating like 6 medium crickets a day or 5 or 6 small super worms. I though it was a young one so I tried to feed him every day(a person from the forum said that he is almost a mature chameleon).

Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? - Will look into the forum for suggestions.

Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? - I use a DIY dripper and it falls on at least 2 leaves before getting to the water dish. I mist him before going to work and as soon as i get back making sure every leave is pretty wet. I have seem him drinking from leaves and trying to hit the drops from the dripper with his thong.

Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? _ Not tested to my knowledge. I have not seem the solid black part in a while,but I have not look for it. I found some like a week ago in the water dish before I added the live plants. The plants occupy a big part of the floor so I guess those are on the plants now. I have seen a white sticky substance attached to some plants.

History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you. - I got him from Petco, he was alone in his cage and it seems like he was healthy.


Cage Info:


Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? I got what I believe is a zoomed Kit that comes with two lamps, a 16x16x30 screen cage, some artificial plants and vines, a thermometer, vitamin sampler and calcium sampler. https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOO-MED-Re...470898&hash=item4b66e0954a:g:R-oAAOSw-ftdGjSM

Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? - It came with Mini combo deep dome. I'm just using the UBV lamp from 7am to 7pm since the temp here in PR is over 80 almost all the time.

Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? I use the digital thermometer from the kit. Themp here is mid 80 almost all the time and someone from the forum suggested that I put a cooling blocks near the sleeping spot to try to cool down at least that area. I also have a spot temp reader but have not use it.

Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? During the day is over 50% and goes up every time I mist for several minutes, I have not look at it during the night. I'm using a digital one from ebay.

Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? - 1 Pothos and 1 dracaena. Sorry if I spell it wrong.

Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? - He is in my living room next to a window and there is a fan. The cage is on a stand that I made with a stool and the top is more than 5 feet from the floor.

Location - Where are you geographically located? - Puerto Rico

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

Since the temp here is higher than the one needed, I'll like to know what effects could that have in the cham health and if I can do something to avoid it.
I decided to leave him inside the house to avoid street cats to possibly stress him. I've seen that the recommended UBV lamp is a different one that the kit had and I'll like to know if that is OK or if i should use 2 UBV bulbs since I'm not using the heating one.
 
JacksJill said:
He's very clearly a nearly or possibly fully mature male. He's going to take a bit longer to adjust to new things. When I feed silks I set them on a broad flat leaf for my wild caught. Mine will eat from a feeder now but he shots into the feeder and need goes neat it. I've found that once you feed super worms regularly they start turning their horns up at most other things. You may want to try snails if you can get or make a clean colony. Jackson's really like them and they are a good part of a mixed feeder rotation.
He looks like he could use some help with his hydration. How often is he getting misted and are you boosting his humidity at night?
It will probably be easier to do this all at once. As my internet will be down this week. Here is a form that you can fill out for more answers.
Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
  • Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

--------------

Please Note:
  1. The more details you provide the better and more accurate help you will receive.
  2. Photos can be very helpful.
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JacksJill said:
He's very clearly a nearly or possibly fully mature male. He's going to take a bit longer to adjust to new things. When I feed silks I set them on a broad flat leaf for my wild caught. Mine will eat from a feeder now but he shots into the feeder and need goes neat it. I've found that once you feed super worms regularly they start turning their horns up at most other things. You may want to try snails if you can get or make a clean colony. Jackson's really like them and they are a good part of a mixed feeder rotation.
He looks like he could use some help with his hydration. How often is he getting misted and are you boosting his humidity at night?
It will probably be easier to do this all at once. As my internet will be down this week. Here is a form that you can fill out for more answers.
Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
  • Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

--------------

Please Note:
  1. The more details you provide the better and more accurate help you will receive.
  2. Photos can be very helpful.
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Hi @JacksJill,
What king of snails you're talking about? I have a pond in the yard with a lot of snails in pond's plants. Are those good enough? The ones we usually see in the yard are too big for him. He has a mouth only 1/2 inch wide.
 
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No, they need to be land snails. Aquatic snails can carry some dangerous parasites and would never be part of an arboreal lizards natural diet. Helix aspera is a common brown garden snail that many keepers use. They shouldn't be fed from the wild but their offspring can be feed off if done properly. Isolate eggs from the adults and hatch out in a clean container.
 
Jacksjill, can you please give an all around good culture for a jacksons?? Temp.-food, thanks!!!! Someday I would like to get one of these guys and give a very good home!!
 
JLSPLINTER said:
Hi @JacksJill,
What king of snails you're talking about? I have a pond in the yard with a lot of snails in pond's plants. Are those good enough? The ones we usually see in the yard are too big for him. He has a mouth only 1/2 inch wide.
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Is your only lighting the dome lights included in the chameleon kit?
 
salty dog said:
Jacksjill, can you please give an all around good culture for a jacksons?? Temp.-food, thanks!!!! Someday I would like to get one of these guys and give a very good home!!
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The care sheet has the basics you need. https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/jacksons/
I have adjusted a few things for my collection beyond the sheet. These are all IMHO.
Only buy from a breeder not a big box pet shop these guys can't take the stress of multiple moves in a row and a bunch of strangers starring at them. Pet store Jackson's are usually wild caught brought in from Hawaii and are inbred. It's not a guarantee but it improves your chances of success to go with a breeder.
Fill your cage with live plants and only use plastic to fill in gaps where plants don't grow well if necessary for coverage.
Drop the temperature into the 60˚F range at night and bump the humidity as close to 100% as you can (minimum 80-90%) with an ultrasonic cool mist humidifier directed into the cage.
Don't have your basking lights on at the same time you mist during the day. Do your long misting (2-3 min) early am and before lights out. Only do short mistings (10-15 sec) in-between to maintain humidity if even necessary and give opportunities to drink. Adjust as needs seasonally. You don't need or want high daytime humidity mixed with heat.
Rotate your feeders, don't rely on crickets, use silks, horns, BSFL, snails and super-worms (for treats) and BSF for enrichment.
I'm sure there is more but a lot of this is on auto pilot for me now.
Edit: Don't over supplement. Go very lightly on only half the feeders for the supplement days.
 
JacksJill said:
The care sheet has the basics you need. https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/jacksons/
I have adjusted a few things for my collection beyond the sheet. These are all IMHO.
Only buy from a breeder not a big box pet shop these guys can't take the stress of multiple moves in a row and a bunch of strangers starring at them. Pet store Jackson's are usually wild caught brought in from Hawaii and are inbred. It's not a guarantee but it improves your chances of success to go with a breeder.
Fill your cage with live plants and only use plastic to fill in gaps where plants don't grow well if necessary for coverage.
Drop the temperature into the 60˚F range at night and bump the humidity as close to 100% as you can (minimum 80-90%) with an ultrasonic cool mist humidifier directed into the cage.
Don't have your basking lights on at the same time you mist during the day. Do your long misting (2-3 min) early am and before lights out. Only do short mistings (10-15 sec) in-between to maintain humidity if even necessary and give opportunities to drink. Adjust as needs seasonally. You don't need or want high daytime humidity mixed with heat.
Rotate your feeders, don't rely on crickets, use silks, horns, BSFL, snails and super-worms (for treats) and BSF for enrichment.
I'm sure there is more but a lot of this is on auto pilot for me now.
Edit: Don't over supplement. Go very lightly on only half the feeders for the supplement days.
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What is BSFL? Fly larvas?
 
AnamCara said:
I would still say a linear light is needed. Jacksonii are out of my realm of exprience but I have never heard of any chameleon not needing a linear UVB bulb. @JacksJill do Jackson's in a small enclosure not need a linear light?
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Yes, I use linear lights. I prefer dual T5 fixtures with either a 5.0 or a 6% UVB depending on brand and a 6500K bulb to keep all the plants alive. CFL's are useless for any thing but very young juveniles in tiny cages but even then linear is better. for the basking bulbs I use 40, 50 or 60 watt bulbs depending on age, cage height and fixture.
That is what I meant by auto pilot I can't possibly write down all that I do. I'm always happy to answer specific questions.
 
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JacksJill said:
Yes, I use linear lights. I prefer dual T5 fixtures with either a 5.0 or a 6% UVB depending on brand and a 6500K bulb to keep all the plants alive. CFL's are useless for any thing but juveniles in tiny cages but even then linear is better. for the basking bulbs I use 40, 50 or 60 watt bulbs depending on age, cage height and fixture.
That is what I meant by auto pilot I can't possibly write down all that I do. I'm always happy to answer specific questions.
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Thanks a lot I appreciate it a lot. One more question: Do you still think my Jackson is an early adult with a head of about 1/2 inch?
 
I just read back you said he is 5-6 inches that would make him younger. Are you including his horns and tail. Adults can be 10-13 inches long. He might have some more growing to do.
 
JacksJill said:
I just read back you said he is 5-6 inches that would make him younger. Are you including his horns and tail. Adults can be 10-13 inches long. He might have some more growing to do.
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Just measure him and he is less than 4 inches from the tip of horn to the beginning of the tail (behind the rear leg).
 
Include the tail, it counts.
Keep in mind they are sexually mature at ~1- 1&1/2 years but may continue to grow but slowly unto 2 years.
 
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