Had to Move cham

streetillegal66

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Cage Info:
Cage Type - 3 sides screen, one side glass. 12"x12"x16"
Lighting - zoomed 12" hood with a 40watt incandescent bulb and a reptisun fluorescent 18” 5.0 UVB tube
Temperature - Day: 75 mid cage, 80 basking spot, 70 floor temp(estimate) . Night 75 mid-cage, 80 basking spot, 70 floor temp
Humidity - use humidity gauge. humidity ranges from 40%-60%, Mist 2-4 times a day for 1 to 3 minutes depending on how she reacts
Plants - 2 types of dracaenas and a live bamboo stalk
Location - cage is on top of a book shelf, bottom of the cage is a 36" from the floor and the top is 52" from the ground.


Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veilded 2 months old in my care as of 10/8/08
Handling – Handel her about every other day
Feeding – 10-1/4 crickets a day, the most she has eaten in a day is 9 but, she has progressed from 5 a day. Crickets gutloaded with carrot, lime, ground oatmeal with a dash of reptivite.
Supplements -zoo meds reptivite reptile vitamins with D3 2 times a week (I dust all the crickets I give her that day)
Watering - I mist the plants and screens of the cage for 1 to 3 minutes depending on how she reacts. I also leave my dripper on for 4 hours a day (dripping about one drop every 20 seconds)
Fecal Description – Very light yellow and a grayish brown
History - nothing yet
Current Problem – I have had some ant infestation problems at my house and I need to have an exterminator come so I had to move my cham to my girlfriends house. I don't know how much the move stressed her, it was only a 2 minute drive, and we put a towel over the cage and drove it to my gfs place. I want to wait a day after the exterminator comes to bring my cham back home. so she got her today and I think I will be able to bring her back in three days? any sugestions on elminating any excess stress?

Changes I am making in the next week:
-Change Supplements to calcium everyday and calcium with D3 and vitimans once a week
-Upgrade my gutload
-Add other prey items to the diet
 
2 minute drive should not b a problem.
You can transport her inside her cage (perhaps cover the cage with towel).
 
I have done similar in the past....I transported a cham 10 mins away in his cage. I kept it covered with 2 towels and he was grumpy but fine.

The main challenge was his new environment so I kept a sheet which covered 2 sides of his cage (which gave him extra privacy and security) and made sure he was in a area that was human quiet and had very few visitors and he was fine. He didn't lose his appetite and kept eating like a pig which is always a good sign :D

Just try and keep her normal routine up as much as you can...the same misting, lighting, feeding schedules etc

Good luck :)
 
I don't think you will have a problem with you temp move...He he ...maybe she's gonna wanna keep them there...

BTW. Ca with D3 2x per month should be enough. you don't want to over supplement.

Hope that helps

OPI
 
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