help jack n jill

[jackNjill]

Chameleon Info
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon.Jackson chameleon,male,approx under 1 year
How long has it been in your care?1 week
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? 2 times a day for feeding
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? crickets,grasshoppers,worms
What amount? 1-2 per feeding
What is the schedule?morning/night
How are you gut-loading your feeders? lettuce,carrots
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? water bottle,rain
How often and how long to you mist? 3-7 times a day for 1 minute
Do you see your chameleon drinking? no
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? no
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you. bought him from petstore

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?)wire bird cage
What are the dimensions? 4 feet high
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? natural sun(no uvb light yet)
Temperature - Lowest overnight temp?in the 60's
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
Placement - Where is your cage located? my room
Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas?no

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.just want to check all problems


Pictures are helpful

 

[Cawagula]

1. Just curious as to what problem you are trying to solve here?
2. Get a UVB light, and basking light IMMEDIATELY, not to sound rude but there is no excuse, make sure to buy ANY and ALL components required to take care of a pet prior to purchase of said pet
3. I suggest misting 3x at 5 minutes at a time, just make sure to get proper drainage on the cage.... if you have a screened bottom just put a bucket under it to collect any water.
4. Don't actually handle your cham to feed it, either cup feed it, let it grab the food from your hand or let a few free roam the cage. Just make sure to not leave any in the tank overnight or they may eat at your cham as it sleeps.
5. Are you dusting your food at all? How about calcium? calcium with d3? Read up and make sure it gets the proper supplements.
6. For a basking light get a hood light fixture and a normal house bulb, 45 watt is fine. Jacksons prefer a 65-70 gradient at night so low 60's is too cold; and a 70-80 gradient during the day.

What kind of plants are in this cage? Be sure to make sure they aren't toxic to the chameleon.

 

[Syn]

Here's the same post but with all the extra stuff removed for extra readability.

Your Chameleon - Jackson chameleon,male,approx under 1 year
How long has it been in your care?1 week
Handling -2 times a day for feeding
Feeding - 1-2 per feeding
What is the schedule?morning/night
How are you gut-loading your feeders? lettuce,carrots
Watering - water bottle,rain
How often and how long to you mist? 3-7 times a day for 1 minute
Do you see your chameleon drinking? no
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? no
History - bought him from petstore

Cage Info:
Cage Type - wire bird cage
What are the dimensions? 4 feet high
Lighting - natural sun(no uvb light yet)
Temperature -in the 60's
Plants -
Placement - my room
Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas?no

Current Problem -just want to check all problems

 

[FFSTRescue]

So you are saying you use natural sunlight but the cage is in your room? Do you have it next to a window? Just know that UVB can't pass through class, so if you open the window and let light pass through a screen when the light is shining directly into the window, that will be the only way to get UVB. Also, make sure that it doesn't get too hot in front of the window if that is where the cage is.

 

[slowfoot]

You have two chams, right? A male and a female?

Based on the pictures in the photography thread, your Jacksons are dehydrated. I would try misting right when they wake up in the morning - most chams will take a drink then. Also, your cage, from what I can see of it, looks very sparsely planted. Definitely add more plants and places for them to hide. This will also provide more areas for water droplets to collect and allow the chams to drink.

You're going to have problems keeping a male and female together in the same cage (if that's how they are kept) unless it is very large.

 

[Carlton]

You'll need to know and track the humidity in the room too. Even if you let the chams drink multiple times a day, if the general air is too dry they will be constantly dehydrated. Very bad for a jackson's as they are native to very humid rainforest habitats. If you don't have a way to measure the air humidity you need to get it...not a cheap analog humidity meter from a pet shop, but a good electronic humidity gauge.

You are going to need to spend a bit of $$ to get these chams into good setups. A separate cage for one of them, lots more live plants for BOTH cages, correct UVB lighting such as the ReptiSun 5.0 for BOTH cages (or a 48" ReptiSun that can lay across the tops of the cages), a visual barrier between the cages, possibly a humidifier for the room, accurate digital thermometers and humdity gauges, correct supplement dusts and gutloads, etc.