zenoncham
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My chameleon's name is Zenon. I got her in April when she was 1-2 months old, so now she is around 3-4 months old. I have been stressing out because I never see her drink, and she is getting lumps under her chin. I recently put her in a 24x24x48 enclosure. This is the info about what I do for her and just things about her:
-24x24x48 screen enclosure with a hibiscus tree and 5 different widths of vines for her to walk
- 1 uvb bulb and 2 heat lamps that run from 8am to 8pm
- A small humidifier that runs for 24 hours
- A dripper that goes for about 2-3 hours
- I spray her cage down with water an hour before her lights turn on (because I have to go to school), when I get home around 3-4pm, and 1-2 hours before she goes to bed
- I feed her 6-8 crickets a day with calcium (no vitamin D3) and about 5 superworms a week if I have any. I gutload with kale, spinach, leafy greens, and cricket cubes, and I have a water bed for the crickets. Also about once each month I've gotten her waxworms so she gets one every other day for about a week or 2. She has had a couple hornworms as well, but they are just too expensive to have on hand. I spray most worms she gets with the zilla vitamin spray which she enjoys, and only dust the crickets with reptivite once every month because the spray has D3
- She has a very healthy appetite, and often enjoys spinach, kale, and leafy greens
- She loves to hunt for her food, she is very active
- Her poop is always really long and solid but shiny, and her urate is mostly white, but I have seen it yellow for about 25% of the way down it occasionally.
- Her colors are usually solid turquoise/bluish green with those little white lines most females have
- Because she was so nervous around me, I spent about 2 weeks handling her and bringing her outside with me for a couple minutes every day or every other day, and now she will eat from my hands, so she is fairly comfortable with humans.
That's everything I can think of about her, any suggestions on what to do? I'm really concerned I'm doing something wrong, and I want to give her the best life that's possible.
Pictures of her and the enclosure:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuqT4TFsV-d6t2_gD06EdpEF9hK_mnBa95htWgJCE5o/edit?usp=sharing
-24x24x48 screen enclosure with a hibiscus tree and 5 different widths of vines for her to walk
- 1 uvb bulb and 2 heat lamps that run from 8am to 8pm
- A small humidifier that runs for 24 hours
- A dripper that goes for about 2-3 hours
- I spray her cage down with water an hour before her lights turn on (because I have to go to school), when I get home around 3-4pm, and 1-2 hours before she goes to bed
- I feed her 6-8 crickets a day with calcium (no vitamin D3) and about 5 superworms a week if I have any. I gutload with kale, spinach, leafy greens, and cricket cubes, and I have a water bed for the crickets. Also about once each month I've gotten her waxworms so she gets one every other day for about a week or 2. She has had a couple hornworms as well, but they are just too expensive to have on hand. I spray most worms she gets with the zilla vitamin spray which she enjoys, and only dust the crickets with reptivite once every month because the spray has D3
- She has a very healthy appetite, and often enjoys spinach, kale, and leafy greens
- She loves to hunt for her food, she is very active
- Her poop is always really long and solid but shiny, and her urate is mostly white, but I have seen it yellow for about 25% of the way down it occasionally.
- Her colors are usually solid turquoise/bluish green with those little white lines most females have
- Because she was so nervous around me, I spent about 2 weeks handling her and bringing her outside with me for a couple minutes every day or every other day, and now she will eat from my hands, so she is fairly comfortable with humans.
That's everything I can think of about her, any suggestions on what to do? I'm really concerned I'm doing something wrong, and I want to give her the best life that's possible.
Pictures of her and the enclosure:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuqT4TFsV-d6t2_gD06EdpEF9hK_mnBa95htWgJCE5o/edit?usp=sharing
