New Member/Gender Question?

[honeybee1985]

My boyfriend reckons that it was a male to start with, but with all the estroegen in the house (all the animals are female) we turned him female! Highly unlikely but he's sticking to it! We do have a bit of a menagerie - 3 cats, 4 rats, 14 fish and a chameleon! Loving every bit of it!

Haha, if that's what your boyfriend thinks he should be worried about his own gender! I'm sure exactly the same thing could happen in humans!

 

[zelink14]

Hi again everyone. So I just read the comments about spurs and barring not being indicative of a male... so hmm. Well, I'll post the pictures I took anyway and let you guys have a look?

These pictures aren't that great (I'm no photographer), but the shadows show that there is SOMETHING on his/her foot. Also, I dunno about the coloring.

And good news; Ridley was slightly less aggressive today. The super aggression like s/he was was out of character.

 

[Sancho]

Pictures are blurry but in the last photo there is possibly a spur but then a again my female had what looked to be a spur at a young age but wasn't a spur

 

[RachelRiot]

The last picture looks like he has a heel spur to me.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

I am 99% sure you have a male.

-Brad

 

[zelink14]

I am 99% sure you have a male.

-Brad

Okay. How soon does obvious male coloring come in? Or is it always there? (Ridley is four months right now)

I guess I'll assume male for now, but see if anything "unusual" happens. Thanks!

 

[Chamaeleoeo]

yea just be patient and wait...then one day after a nice shed, theyll come through..... and have a camera ready for the first fire up!

 

[Julirs]

Looks like a spur to me and he is either really young and that is why he is not showing colors or really malnourished-he looks pretty thin to me.

 

[BocaJan]

I tend to agree with Julirs. He looks to be about 4 months and is pretty thin. I hope you are feeding him all he will eat. My male didn't start getting colors until he was almost a year. When he became an adult he would try out his coloring just for no reason, and because rather hissy. I had to hiss back which he didn't like, but I had a bigger mouth then he did so he backed off. LOLOLOL That was so funny.

Veileds generally don't have all the wild colors that the panthers do. Note Julirs pic. They tend to be similar to that unless the fire up or are romantically stimulated. There are some that have some colors, but generally it is green, turquoise, white, black and a bit of yellow.

 

[zelink14]

He is thin. The vet told me the same thing and I knew it before. It isn't that he's not eating enough, it's that he's not eating at all.

I'm trying to get help over here because I can't figure out why he's not eating but not many have replied yet. https://www.chameleonforums.com/eating-off-20277/

In the meantime I'm going to try hand-offering him water to see if he poops, and I'll try hand-feeding him.

If anyone has any ideas, please help!!!!