How to stop roaming?

[ronnie]

When i have let Trixxi out in the past onto the window sill she stays mainly on the vines and plants that i have set up for her there but the last few days she has managed to get herself down onto the floor!she scared the living daylights out of me the other day!i came into the room and there she was on the floor and when she clocked me she froze and so did i(kinda like a stare out in one of those westerns LOL!!) she went all spotty and must have thought that she was camouflaged against the carpet(which is cream by the way!)now she keeps doing it,my question is:is there anyway i can stop her doing this or do i just make it as safe as possible as i can for her around the general area,i am really scared that she could hurt herself

 

[beeze]

When i have let Trixxi out in the past onto the window sill she stays mainly on the vines and plants that i have set up for her there but the last few days she has managed to get herself down onto the floor!she scared the living daylights out of me the other day!i came into the room and there she was on the floor and when she clocked me she froze and so did i(kinda like a stare out in one of those westerns LOL!!) she went all spotty and must have thought that she was camouflaged against the carpet(which is cream by the way!)now she keeps doing it,my question is:is there anyway i can stop her doing this or do i just make it as safe as possible as i can for her around the general area,i am really scared that she could hurt herself

Make it chameleon safe and confine her to one room when you are not watching. Has she been eating? Could she be looking for a place to lay eggs?

 

[hallenhe]

Is there a way you can "fence off" the area surrounding her plants? Thaxter free-ranges in the living room, and will find his way to the floor on occasion, but a tall (~ 2.5 feet) board across the living room door keeps him in. You might be able to jury-rig something that would keep her safe, if being a somewhat odd addition to the room from an aesthetic perspective.

 

[ronnie]

Is there a way you can "fence off" the area surrounding her plants? Thaxter free-ranges in the living room, and will find his way to the floor on occasion, but a tall (~ 2.5 feet) across the living room door keeps him in. You might be able to jury-rig something that would keep her safe, if being a somewhat odd addition to the room from an aesthetic perspective.

Hi thanks for the reply,she laid eggs about 6 weeks ago for me and i haven't seen ant evidence that she getting ready to lay again,shes still eating like a horse so apart from the roaming thats all that has really changed,i do have a laying bin in with her all the time just in case.She is in my bedroom so there are so many places she can get into that i would be scared to let her free range in that room,as to fencing off(i don't care how it looks)i just might have to give that a go

 

[Carlton]

Once a cham discovers new areas to roam it will keep trying to get there. You won't stop her, so restrict where she can get to. If you don't have boards handy you can take some smooth cardboard (flatten and cut up large boxes) and make a smooth portable wall to fence off an area of the floor near the window. If the cardboard wall is taller than she can reach standing on her hind legs she won't be able to get past it. Also, make sure she can get back up to the windowsill from the floor if she wants to. She'll discover that the sill is the better place to be.

 

[Carlton]

Oh, I meant to say that her spotting isn't an attempt to blend with the carpet. She's showing her heightened stress or excitement.

 

[Miss Lily]

She may well be about to become receptive again. With Lily's two clutches they were laid 4 months apart. You say that she's eating like a horse. How much does she eat? Lily was a l'il piggy and she laid those huge clutches, so Amy's food intake is an awful lot less than hers was as I don't want her laying so many eggs, if she lays at all. I learnt that one the hard way.

 

[ronnie]

She may well be about to become receptive again. With Lily's two clutches they were laid 4 months apart. You say that she's eating like a horse. How much does she eat? Lily was a l'il piggy and she laid those huge clutches, so Amy's food intake is an awful lot less than hers was as I don't want her laying so many eggs, if she lays at all. I learnt that one the hard way.

Hi Tiff,i give her 4/5 small roaches a day and sometimes 3 roaches and 2 med locusts depending on what i have for her,i never give her more than 5 insects a day and keep her temps no higher than 82.I really hope shes no going to lay again so soon(still traumatized from the last time!!)

 

[Miss Lily]

She may not cycle another clutch just yet. Unfortunately there is no set time from becoming gravid to the cycling of a clutch. I have asked this before and no-one seems to have an answer. Lily was eating around 20 locusts/crix per day at 6 months! Amy is still on small crix (she won't eat anything bigger) and eats about 6 of them plus a couple of medium locusts and a silkworm. Lily would take food whenever it was offered, but Amy doesn't. If she's not hungry she either ignores the food and comes out or walks away, lol!

 

[summoner12]

I find chams wonder from free range areas when something is missing that they want.... heat, UVB, water, food...... OR... in search of a laying spot.

Her spotting up at you is a distress. She is thinking you might want to eat her... and most animals won't eat something that is spotted up and has funky colors or patterns because they will think that it is not 'safe' to eat. so in other words she is saying "DON"T EAT ME!"

 

[Murrdox]

I find chams wonder from free range areas when something is missing that they want.... heat, UVB, water, food...... OR... in search of a laying spot.

Likely it's this, and I'll add something to it. Either she's missing something she wants, or she's trying to get away from something she doesn't want. Examples could be high traffic (scared of seeing people, trying to find somewhere to hide) or a reflective surface or window where she's seeing her reflection.

Another thing to add to the "things they want" list would be HEIGHT. Sometimes they see something higher than they are, and they want to climb it. They'll go crazy trying to get there.

I had to move a lamp in my room because Rygel would keep trying to find a way out of his cage to get over to it. Eventually I got him a taller cage which solved the issue much better.