Female panther seemingly giving up, no clue why

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Chameleon Info:

Chameleon: 7 month old female panther chameleon, had her about 4 months
Handling: Every other day
Feeding: 5-6 crickets daily (Before she stopped eating) Crickets eat Flukers High Calcium Cricket Diet as well as Flukers Cricket Quencher Calcium Fortified
Supplements: National Geographic Reptile Calcium Supplement Powder with D3 not regularily
Watering: Misting with a spray bottle 2-3 times a day, currently don't see her drinking but she doesnt seem dehydrated.
Fecal Description: From the most recent one, normal brown with white urinate, but they are few and far between at the moment
History: Not sure about breeder, bought at pet smart.

Cage Info:

Cage Type: Glass Exo terra 18 by 18 by 24
Lighting: Very recently used a sun glo 25w 60hz as well as an exo terra uvb100 13w as well as a normal 60w incandescent for her basking, found out that the sun glo could've possibly burned her eye? so that one is gone and replaced with another uvb100 13w
Temperature: Cage floor is around 73 consistently, Basking is around 83 give or take 1 or 2, Using digital thermometer for basking, and dial for lower cage.
Humidity: Stays in the 60-80 range through misting, using a dial hygrometer
Plants: Two live plants, not sure which type but they were bought off of the recommended plants list so they are for sure non toxic to her.
Location: I live in Canada so it's cold outside, but the inside of the house is more than adequate temperature, it's kept at around 23 celsius

Problem: Recently the girly has not been eating or drinking as well as sleeping all day. She keeps one eye closed basically all the time even when she is awake (possibly due to a burn i've been told?), we've tried to give her a shower (properly, don't worry) and running the tap on her nose to get her to drink, we've also tried to get her to eat by putting worms close to her mouth and rubbing it on her lip, none of which has worked so far. She doesn't seem dehydrated (no sunken eyes) but she is quite lethargic all the time now. She still has a good grip and does not seem to let go even when sleeping.

This is her current setup:
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This is how she looks:
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This is her eye:
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Thank you for the help!
 
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She's definitely in trouble, so I don't know if she has much time for suggestions to help. Here goes:

Her supplementation isn't great, and the gutload her feeders have been given isn't great either. She probably has some dietary imbalances going on. Your supplementation schedule should be:

Daily: dust with PLAIN calcium, NO vit D3 added. You've been overdosing D3,
Every 2 weeks: dust with calcium WITH vit D3.
Every 2 weeks: dust with an additional herp multivitamin. Right now she hasn't been getting any significant vitamins other than D3.

Her feeders need much better food than the off-the-shelf garbage they've been eating. There are several very good gutloads available from forum sponsors, but you can create one for the time being out of a fortified cereal grain such as Total, fresh dark leafy veggies (not spinach), fresh fruit (I like using oranges....the vit C is good and it doesn't mold too fast), bee pollen, and spirulina.

Does the temp in her cage drop at night? Are all lights off at night? The cage temp needs to drop at least 10 degrees at night so her metabolism can drop and she can rest. Any visible light will keep her awake. If the cage doesn't get cooler than 50 F at night you don't need to provide any heat.
 
Do you have a reptile vet? I would try to get her in sooner rather than later. I also think she would do better in a screen cage and doing what carlton said
 
I'm guessing the uvb100 is a 10.0 lamp (10% uvb), I'd reccoment you get a 5.0 instead.
I'd also think with a room temp of 23C and a glass enclosure 60 watts will become to warm.
Also remember 12 hrs light, 12 hrs dark, no nightlight and temps can drop, that's in fact good.

Right now I'd say find a vet, after that throw out them flukers and take what @Carlton wrote to heart. I think it's best to feed your crickets with fresh greens, i think the resources section may tell you which greens are good. Then there's also the option to gutload em extra 24hr before feeding em off with for example stickytongues vit-all or Repashy cricket crack. This you can do additionally, not instead of.

Good luck, hope she pulls trough.
 
Thank you for the replies guys! I've just bought some fresh veggies and stuff to feed to her and I'm going to start doing proper supplementation, I guess the pet store we went to didn't really have a clue about chameleons even though they claimed to... In any case hopefully she'll be doing much better soon! Also sadly we don't have a vet who is comfortable with reptiles around here, so is there anything else I could possibly do?

Additionally she's not eating, so even if we feed the crickets correct is there a way of getting her to eat?
 
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Thank you for the replies guys! I've just bought some fresh veggies and stuff to feed to her and I'm going to start doing proper supplementation, I guess the pet store we went to didn't really have a clue about chameleons even though they claimed to... In any case hopefully she'll be doing much better soon! Also sadly we don't have a vet who is comfortable with reptiles around here, so is there anything else I could possibly do?

Additionally she's not eating, so even if we feed the crickets correct is there a way of getting her to eat?
Not sure if @jannb also keeps track of vets in Canada but if you share the area you live in maybe she can help...

I don't think the intention to do better husbandry will save her right now, she needs help.
 
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