Healthy/Normal?

[kimbodini1]

I am pretty sure Oolong is healthy but I see so many posts about people's cham's having health issues that it has a little concerned lol. I am positive I am doing everything correctly but Oolong is my first Chameleon and maybe I overlook things. He is currently about a year and a half old. One of the questions I have is about his lighting. I have it on a 12 hour timer from 8am-8pm. I am wondering if I should adjust this cycle because he is always awake looking around at 7am and always in his spot to sleep around 6:30pm. Will adjusting his light cycle make a difference or will he just continue doing his own thing? He has no issues sleeping with his light on during this time but he is pretty active all day so I Imagine he is fine. Last night I took him out to clean his cage after 6 and put him on his new tree that was going in his cage, within minutes he had his eyes closed so I felt bad waking him up to put to get him and his new tree back in the cage. I took this pic right before putting him to bed.

 

[brownie64]

He looks gorgeous to me don't see anything wrong. You can alter his light schedule if you like it won't heart him they pretty much know when it's time too sleep they have that internal clock. I find mine will retire earlier in the winter months.

 

[gotwqqd]

Make slow changes to light timer

Myself, I use a timer that turns lights on 45 minutes after sunrise.... So it is a semi gradual light because of ambient coming through Windows
Off time is same except for when time change occurs... So he had a two hour difference of light between seasons... 12 hours winter/14 hours summer

 

[kimbodini1]

OK Thanks for the feedback. I just wanted to make sure he was acting normal and showed no signs of MBD. I talked to the Vet about bringing him in for a check up and they recommend once a year. They said they normally do not see these guys until they are real sick. It is $73 for a check up and they want me to bring in my UVB so they can test it. I told them I use a reptisun 5.0 and replace it every 6 months so it should be fine but they said sometimes they are under producing from day one and would really like me to bring it in. I will probably set something up just for piece of mind.

 

[Lexihamidi]

Beautiful & healthy!