New Cham Owner, but avid reader and student.
Details: Female cham about 6 months old. Screened in exclosure - 2x3x3 with seperate UV lights. Hydrangea, Croton, Scheffelera in tank along with faux vines to climb on. Added recently - damp sand box for eggs. Misting 3-6 times a day (just ordered automatic mister) and now showering with me. Last several months, was eating like there was no tomorrow. Put calcium (several times a week) and vitamins on her crickets, meal worms. Lots of outdoor time.
Interesting side notes: We live in Florida and have a screened in porch with lots of plants that she loves to explore. When I am home working, I let her have fun. She used to sit and bask but is now on a mission every time I put her out there. Doing what is unknown...She also loves to explore the yard and fruit trees but we watch her constantly. Have found her twice with baby Anole tail hanging out of her mouth, so assume she has found a new delicacy. She is NOT a normal cham. Bursts out of her cage to be with me. Climbs on me and sits in my head. Loves to be petted. Has only hissed and opened mouth 3 times when I startled her and that was my fault because I was moving too fast came up behind her. She loves to come out at night crawl around, explore the curtains and then find me to fall asleep on me. Yup, crazy cham.
OK. So she has stopped eating over the last week and is moving around everywhere like she is late for an appointment. An occasional bug or a hydrangea leaf destroyed, but nothing substantial. She is pooping regularly but mostly liquidy white and a a little brown. Not like before! Have mealworms, superworms, wax worms (her favorite treat) and big and tiny crickets available in her cage. Plus the moths, fruit flies, regular flies, grasshoppers and everything else outside that she just walks by. Yesterday, when I put her out on the porch she made a fast dash for a palm tree and scaled up it to a hanging plastic fern where she met up with a medium Anole. She licked twice and I grabbed her as I could tell she was about to zap it. Grrrrr...
I have not been weighing her but she still looks healthy. Crest is tall and full, legs and body full. Does not look sick. And very active.
She has recently been showing her new blue coloring so I think she is trying to attract a boy.
The weather is getting cooler here in Florida so she is not getting nearly the amount of time outside as she had over the summer and I know she wants it. So maybe an hour outside versus 3 hours/day.
Today, out of worry, I force fed her 3 meal worms and 2 wax worms. Took us some time to figure it out, but once she got what I was doing, she was fine with it. She eventually crawled on my arm and licked it...waited for her to try and taste me
I don't see eggs in her belly.
Any thoughts? Have seen the posts on a fecal and will do this early next week with our normal dog vet. Although she is not a herp vet, I think she will help out.
This girl is causing more grey hair than my human children!
Details: Female cham about 6 months old. Screened in exclosure - 2x3x3 with seperate UV lights. Hydrangea, Croton, Scheffelera in tank along with faux vines to climb on. Added recently - damp sand box for eggs. Misting 3-6 times a day (just ordered automatic mister) and now showering with me. Last several months, was eating like there was no tomorrow. Put calcium (several times a week) and vitamins on her crickets, meal worms. Lots of outdoor time.
Interesting side notes: We live in Florida and have a screened in porch with lots of plants that she loves to explore. When I am home working, I let her have fun. She used to sit and bask but is now on a mission every time I put her out there. Doing what is unknown...She also loves to explore the yard and fruit trees but we watch her constantly. Have found her twice with baby Anole tail hanging out of her mouth, so assume she has found a new delicacy. She is NOT a normal cham. Bursts out of her cage to be with me. Climbs on me and sits in my head. Loves to be petted. Has only hissed and opened mouth 3 times when I startled her and that was my fault because I was moving too fast came up behind her. She loves to come out at night crawl around, explore the curtains and then find me to fall asleep on me. Yup, crazy cham.
OK. So she has stopped eating over the last week and is moving around everywhere like she is late for an appointment. An occasional bug or a hydrangea leaf destroyed, but nothing substantial. She is pooping regularly but mostly liquidy white and a a little brown. Not like before! Have mealworms, superworms, wax worms (her favorite treat) and big and tiny crickets available in her cage. Plus the moths, fruit flies, regular flies, grasshoppers and everything else outside that she just walks by. Yesterday, when I put her out on the porch she made a fast dash for a palm tree and scaled up it to a hanging plastic fern where she met up with a medium Anole. She licked twice and I grabbed her as I could tell she was about to zap it. Grrrrr...
I have not been weighing her but she still looks healthy. Crest is tall and full, legs and body full. Does not look sick. And very active.
She has recently been showing her new blue coloring so I think she is trying to attract a boy.
The weather is getting cooler here in Florida so she is not getting nearly the amount of time outside as she had over the summer and I know she wants it. So maybe an hour outside versus 3 hours/day.
Today, out of worry, I force fed her 3 meal worms and 2 wax worms. Took us some time to figure it out, but once she got what I was doing, she was fine with it. She eventually crawled on my arm and licked it...waited for her to try and taste me
I don't see eggs in her belly.
Any thoughts? Have seen the posts on a fecal and will do this early next week with our normal dog vet. Although she is not a herp vet, I think she will help out.
This girl is causing more grey hair than my human children!
