Another thing when I got her from petco she was in a small enclosure glass too not good at all and she had a water bowl there she was bright green now in a better enclosure gets misted and feed better she’s darker and stressed just a lil confusing
Same with Stella. No idea why they’re bright green at Petco. I still haven’t quite figured out various stress colorations. Sometimes they go dark and sometimes they go bright.
Yeah it’s weird a terrible enclosure to a decent or great one and there like stressed ?
I highly recommend pulling all of those silk plants... With fake plants you get risk of impaction because they eat their plants. But with the ones that you are using from a floral store those are high risk for impaction because they can pull the pieces off so easily. If you need to use anything fake right now it should be made for reptiles only as they are made stronger. Although I am a firm believer in no fake plants and all real ones only especially for Veileds.
Do you have any friends or family who have a pothos? They are super easy to root from clippings...just set in a glass of water and plant when you see some roots growing. Same with philodendron and wandering Jew. I try to buy the biggest/fullest pothos I can find and then separate it into 2-3 plants.
And that is fine. But pull the fake flower silk ones those are extremely dangerous. If she pulls one off she will not be able to pass it and will become impacted.
Will do
I’ve been able to put food in front of her and watch her eat
Sometimes I just open the enclosure door and stand there with my hands behind my back and try not to make direct eye contact for more than a second. It’s just to let my chams know that I’m not going to try and eat them. I do hand feed silkworms also. My females have no problem with my hand in their space as long as it has a tasty morsel. My young male is still hesitant so I make sure not to invade his space and just patiently wait for him to take it. Sometimes I have to look away or he won’t take it.
Okay yeah mine is staring to cup feed with my hand in the enclosure I’m wanna work on building trust so I’m cup feeding then I wanna hand feed and move up to feeding out of the enclosure also what’s a website where I can get feeders cheap with cheap shipping
Also quick question what does it mean when a cham mouth is open
It can mean a few things... Yawn/stretch, too hot at basking, feels threatened or an RI. https://chameleonacademy.com/chameleon-behavior-gaping/
Maybe too hot then but the enclosure is only 85 so idk
How are you measuring the basking temp? The pic you posted yesterday the vine is very close to the fixture.... Females really should be kept at 79-80 max. Is she doing it when she is under the fixture?
Yeah
And how are you measuring the temps? If she is doing it under the lamp then she is getting too hot. If she is as close as it looks like she is this is high risk for thermal burn from the lamp.
