- Your Chameleon - Veiled Chameleon, male, 2 months, I've had him since June 12th 2017.
- Handling - used to be a couple times a week but recently cut down to nothing due to weird activity.
- Feeding - about 4 crickets once a day if he eats them. I've only ever seen/been able to get him to eat 1 before he loses interest. I leave the others in the cage and I assume he eats them as the crawl around the cage. I dust the crickets in calcium powder every feeding session.
- Supplements - ths first picture below shows the calcium I use and the food and water supply that I use for the crickets.
- Watering - water 4 - 5 times dailey, sometimes he seems to has trouble finding the water even though almost all leaves in the cage have water on them. I have a dripper leaf thing in his cage. I've seen him drink from it before but only once since I've had it. I try to show him it whenever he is handled by letting a drop of water run onto his chin but he doesn't seem to know how to go it every time.
- Fecal Description - seems to be the normal dark brown and white colors that I've read are signs of normal colors to see. He does however, poop on himself sometimes. I've had to rub it off for him twice now with a baby wipe that I ran under water to soften it up a little and to try to minimize on whatever cleaning ingredient is in baby wipes.
- History - he's been pretty "normal" up untill about a week ago. I've moved his cage inside due to the Florida heat and so he could see me more often to help get used to me being around.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - screen cage, 18"×18"×26" there is a plastic cut out taped to the outter back side of the cage to not spray my wall during misting times. There is also a towel drapped over the left side of the cage to cover the cords for the lights so they don't get wet.
- Lighting - using 60w daylight blue reptile bulb from zoo-med and a uvb light from the same company (don't have box to give power of it if that's a thing). I just picked up a All Living Things 20" reptile strip light with a 18' 15 watt T8 UVB light bulb because I was reading the smaller one might not be providing enough UVB. I have both lights on a timer for a little over 12 hours a day from 6am -8pm (the current length of a FL day)
- Temperature - ranges from low 70s at night and high 80s in his basking spot. I get 60% - 70% humitiy that I try to maintain. Sometimes it drops to 40% - 50% over night. I spray 4 - 5 times dailey and have a pothos plant starting to grow and jasmine along the back of the cage. Both have been looked up as acceptable plants for chameleons. I use a Great Choice temp and humitiy gage. What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
- Humidity - stated above
- Plants - stated in temp discription.
- Placement - cage is in my room on my dresser. The top of the cage is 6 feet off of the ground that way. Where is your cage located?
- Location - Florida
Current Problem - I came home at 9pm and my chameleon was on the floor of his cage. He was in water that was pooled up a little from not having proper dranage. He was cold so I turned the heat light on while in my hand, after a minute I got a tupperware and made a bed for him to lay in to warm up and dry off. He he staying in there ocer night because he is too weak to get up and out. He moves a little when I turn the heat lamp on and opens his mouth to kind of weeze. Not sure what that means or what I should be doing currently. I just turned his lights off for the night since he should be sleeping right now anyways. He is laying on his side right now but seems to still be alive. I will be taking him to the vet ASAP but this will suffice for now.
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