Lincolntowncar
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Hello, all! I have a Veiled Chameleon who I believe is about 6-8 months old.. I have had him for about coming up to 5 months now. Everything seems to be okay in terms of his health but his attitude made a huge turn out of nowhere. I have been working with him patiently ever since I got him, we learned together and he was extremely slowly but surely gaining my trust. We even got to the point to where it took him a while but he would come onto my hand to get a worm. I did this every day for a long while. Just some background, he eats mainly dubia roaches, I used to give him crickets but they are stinky, annoying, and he sometimes had trouble with them escaping his food bowl which worried me. Anyway I found a good source of dubia roaches not too far from me so that's what we settled with. From the start he was a very very grumpy guy, but I knew what I was getting myself into so I just did my best. Like I said, this was going all so well and then all of the sudden he started getting uncomfortable with me. No change in environment, nothing really at all. He slowly stopped eating food off of my hand and even now sometimes hisses at me extremely aggressively if I even try to offer him some. When this happens I try to give him some space and just move on to the next day. Another thing I am concerned about but also not sure of is his lack of appetite. He went through the common veiled cham phase of eating a really large amount every day. I mean he was eating like 25 of the dubia roaches a day at some point and could even probably take more. As of recently he barely touches them. It used to be, right as I place the food bowl he rushes to it and starts goin to town! Now not so much. I did upgrade in size to larger ones... they are a tiny bit larger than they should be but he eats them perfectly fine. My assumptions are either maybe he is getting full too fast because of the size maybe, or maybe it is too big for him? I am really not sure. I also started to place the roaches in his cage so he can go hunt for them, just for some bonding time and also how I made sure he ate if he didn't eat from the bowl. Now he barely budges for those. Any help would be awesome 
Just to be clear too, his cage is a good size for him. I think It is something along the likes of 36"x24"x18"? I was told this would be fine for him for a good year but I am upgrading soon because I want him to live comfortably and luxuriously! He doesn't seem to be upset about the environment at all (at least from what I think). But yeah, I want to continue building toward trust with him, and more importantly make sure nothing is wrong with him! His tongue goes the full length, he does not move abnormally slow, he moves around a lot and when is left alone seems just fine. Even if I just sit by him, but interacting even for food becomes a stressful situation for him sometimes.
Just to be clear too, his cage is a good size for him. I think It is something along the likes of 36"x24"x18"? I was told this would be fine for him for a good year but I am upgrading soon because I want him to live comfortably and luxuriously! He doesn't seem to be upset about the environment at all (at least from what I think). But yeah, I want to continue building toward trust with him, and more importantly make sure nothing is wrong with him! His tongue goes the full length, he does not move abnormally slow, he moves around a lot and when is left alone seems just fine. Even if I just sit by him, but interacting even for food becomes a stressful situation for him sometimes.
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