GrimCamel
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Chameleon Info:
Cage Info:
Current Problem - lowered activity and closed eyes in the afternoon
I have another thread about his skin issues so I will keep the subjects separated. Since I changed his cage lighting I've noticed a lack of activity. If I remember last summer he used to be a very active little man who walked up to the enclosure doors almost every day to go to his free range. I haven't seen him wanting to go out for months but I mostly suspected the cold being the issue or the very dull grey or sometimes white outside not being very interesting to look at trough the window where the freerange is. These few last weeks he havent been moving around a lot and is mostly sitting on the middle of his top branch with a curled tail, not even under the basking bulb. He has been looking like he is about to fall asleep any minute and sometimes he even closes his eyes for short periods of time. He only moves around when we mist him and I feed him then it takes a while and he'll be back like he was before. I don't really know what suspect, maybe I should gutload different to give him more vitamines? I am open to all suggestions to improve my husbandry
- Your Chameleon - Male panther chameleon bought september 2015. 3 y/o
- Handling - He used to want to come out almost every day but these days almost nothing so no handling.
- Feeding - Crickets, zophobas, dubia, turkestan and occupationally glowspot roaches, grasshoppers or other things I find at expos. All gutloaded with greens like leftover salad mix, cucumber but mostly carrot. Some feeders have constant accsess to oats and occupationally brit rabbit senior pellets.
I am always hand feeding due to unknown issue where he may not shoot out his tongue all the way. Vet said lack of vit A but couldnt see anything visible and only recommended me to gutload carrots which I had already been doing. This issue didn't exist when I bought him but he had it for quite some time now. When he is refusing food I give him 2 zophobas which he almost never refuse and while chewing one of them I put in a dubia for him to eat as well. However his appetite seems to be back now so I let him eat as many crickets/dubia as he want to, around 3-5 I would say. Not a big eater. - Supplements - zoo med Repti calcium w/o D3 two times a week, Repti calcium with D3 every other weekend and exo terra multivitamin the rest of the weekends.
- Watering - I use a hand mister for the moment and spray him 1-2 times a day. I've recently bought a mistking that I'm about to set up. I almost always see him drink water that sipped down his face and sometimes he drinks directly from the mist bottle. I do own a dripper but I almost never use it since I only saw him try it once when it was new.
- Fecal Description - Looks normal to me. Last one seemed to have less than a 3rd orange and more white
- History - Previously named issue with tongue and a still ongoing skin issue (see this thread https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/identify-small-lumps.155048/) which I have no update on since he the only shedding he has done since then is one back foot. I went to the vet in january to check on his skin and mentioned his tongue problem but neither got a clear answer. I am supposed to return if his skin still looks the same after shed (which he havent had in a while unless we are talking about shedding a leg or two). He didnt get any remarks on overall health.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Largest exoterra size for the time being. Bioactive with lots of live plants.
- Lighting - His light goes on very late I know I have no timer installed yet but I will most likely fix that when I install the mister. It goes on between 9 and 10 in the morning and off around 11 in the evening.
I have one basking lamp and I recently (jan 25) switched out my coiled exoterra uvb bulb to a light tube of the same brand and strength (10.0). - Temperature - At the moment I only measure his basking spot which is not very optimal I know. Its 30 degree celcius, sometimes a few degrees more in the summer. I've never seen him bask with his mouth open, dark in the enclosure or walking around on the bottom for longer periods of time.
- Humidity - around 70 to 80 most of the day. No big drops.
- Plants - Living plants of multiple species. I don't have the names in my head but I always check if they might be toxic on the labels or FL safe plant list.
- Placement - On a desktop in one of the bedrooms. We do own 5 dogs but I only allow one of them to stay in the room and shes one of those who goes straight to bed and sleeps.
- Location - Sweden's west coast
Current Problem - lowered activity and closed eyes in the afternoon
I have another thread about his skin issues so I will keep the subjects separated. Since I changed his cage lighting I've noticed a lack of activity. If I remember last summer he used to be a very active little man who walked up to the enclosure doors almost every day to go to his free range. I haven't seen him wanting to go out for months but I mostly suspected the cold being the issue or the very dull grey or sometimes white outside not being very interesting to look at trough the window where the freerange is. These few last weeks he havent been moving around a lot and is mostly sitting on the middle of his top branch with a curled tail, not even under the basking bulb. He has been looking like he is about to fall asleep any minute and sometimes he even closes his eyes for short periods of time. He only moves around when we mist him and I feed him then it takes a while and he'll be back like he was before. I don't really know what suspect, maybe I should gutload different to give him more vitamines? I am open to all suggestions to improve my husbandry
