Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? 4 month old
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? daily
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? daily gutloading with commercial food and veggies
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? crickets or mealworms daily dusting with half multi vitamins other half calcium with d3 sometimes I use liquid calcium and multi. it say for every 50 gs a certain amount of drops I may have used to many
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? every 5 hrs for 15 sec
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
reptibreeze medium split with female on one side
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? 160 watt mvb covering both sides with 5.0 cfl covering both also
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? 80-85 ambient basking 90-95
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? auto mister every 5 hrs for 15 secs and some other tines throughout the day
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? real and fake
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? ontop of a small dresser in bedroom
Location - Where are you geographically located? new York
Handling: cut back, it may be stressing him/them out too much. Especially that young.
Gutloading: You need to avoid the pet store commercial stuff. Some folks on here make their own, or buy some that forum members make. What
kind of veggies?
Food: Add more variety to your chameleons diets, mealworms are not the greatest. Try to find some silkworms, hornworms and dubias, you can get them when they're small to feed to your young chams.
Supplements: Multivitamin should only be used twice a month.
Calcium WITH D3 should also be used twice a month, most folks alternate it between the multivitamin weeks. Too much or too little of this can be damaging! Are you lightly dusting? Or are you caking the crickets/mealworms? More is not better when it comes to supplements.
Water: You definitely need to mist more often. Some folks mist every 2-3 hours for
MINUTES at a time, and run drippers as well.
Fecal: Please answer the fecal question, especially colors! There should be a brown part, and a white part, please describe both of those colors.
Cage: You need to give your guys their own cages, separated or not, thats a very small space for quickly growing chameleons. Is there a visual barrier between them where they CANNOT see each other?
Basking/UVB: Get rid of that MVB bulb, get a regular 'ol housebulb.
95 degrees is cooking those young panthers. WAY too hot. A CFL UVB bulb is probably not giving enough UVB light, you need to either get another CFL, or go with a longer tube light. Some folks use the longer fixtures and set it over multiple cages for great UVB coverage. The CFL's have been know to cause eye problems, so going with a tube fixture will be a overall better choice!
Humidity: Humidity
needs to be measured, not just from a mister running. You need to have a way to measure the levels. It's very important! Too much humidity can cause a RI (respiratory infection). They need to have humidity that spikes up to 70% when misting, and then drop down between 30-50%.
Plants: What KIND of plants? Not all plants are safe for chameleons. They can get very sick or die from toxic plants.
Female: Re-guarding your female panther: are you aware of egg laying? Some female chams can lay eggs whether bred or not.
You have come to the right place to get help. But we got to get your husbandry straightened out
best of luck!
