New to chameleon

[Art182]

Hello. My name is art. I’m from Odessa Texas. Just general questions if someone can help and telll me if I’m doing anything wrong.

I got the chameleon last week. He seemed to be doing good until yesterday that he started getting very dark, he is peeling his skin. He is very friendly and comes to my hand to eat sometimes. He is eating about 10’crickets every 2 days. I dust them with calcium without D and once a week with calcium and vitamin D. I have a glass enclosure. Humidity stays on the 70s in the middle of of the thank and the temperature around 80. I used a reptisun T5.0 UV light and regular bulb light just for more light. My enclousre is bioactive. I’m thinking about buying a little fan for air to flow .

• Your Chameleon - veiled, a month or two old. Male
• Handling - once a week if he os willing to get into my hand.
• Feeding - crickets, daily (8 or plus) wax warms once a week, dusted with calcium with d daily and without D once a week. Crickets eat stuff from store or spinach’s.
• Supplements - reptisun from petco
• Watering - mister spraying 2 times a day for 30 seconds and hand spraying, slowe down on it because it started flooding. Waitingg to water to get evaporated and then hand spraying for 1-2 minutes two times a day.
• Fecal Description - haven’t noticed any yet.
• Super friendly.

Cage Info:

• Cage Type -22x22x28 30’gallon, glass.
• Lighting - reptisun t50, regular jouse
• Light, blue light in case it gets
• Cold.
• Temperature - stays at 80 pretty much all day. Hygrometer in the middle. Will get termómetro thid weekend. Basking spot it’s at 80 “.
• Humidity - hygrometer. 80 when misting drops to 50 at night.
• Plants - I have some live plants, growing. Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
• Placement - it’s in the corner of a room, windows next to it. 4 feet high from Floor to top. Not circulated area in the from 10pm to 6pm.
• Location - basin, Odessa Texas. Oil field town. Super dry.Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - color. Stress levels are high or this happens when the shed????

 

[LizardLurkin]

Hello! Your boy is super cute and reminds me a lot of my little guy.

There's going to be quite a bit of text here, but bare with me:
I want to go over the enclosure stuff first off. These guys grow very fast and they do well in their adult-sized home even at this size. He will need a 2x2x4 home before you know it. Reptibreeze's Xl cage is fairly priced and you can mod it into a hybrid cage easily with either PVC boards or a window insulation kit on the back, left and right sides of that cage. This creates a chimney effect that is not possible with an all glass enclosure.
For the lighting, it is super duper important they have a linear UVB light. This would be excellent for him, but keep in mind the bulbs should be replaced around every six months. I'm not sure the distance it should be place on an enclosure of this size, however.
As for plants, veileds love to nibble them (the plants I have in my Spooble's enclosure have cute tiny lil bites in them everywhere!) This is why we avoid plastic plants.

Supplements are also super important to get right, so I'll try to explain it in a not confusing way. You'll want to use Calcium without D3 for nearly every meal the length of the month, however, on two days of those month, at the beginning and the middle of the month (let's say the 1st and the 15th for simplicity) you will instead use a multivitamin like so for his meals on that day. This keeps their bones and eyes healthy.
It's curious you haven't noticed a fecal, but if you have a cleanup crew in your bioactive set up, that makes sense.
For misting, you want to do this for two minutes 30 minutes before lights are on, and then 30 minutes before lights are off. Although, I'm not sure if that's overkill for an enclosure of this size.

The color changing:
Well! This is often their way to show their mood, but it's also worth noting that the youngins might look a little muddy and brownish for a while as they get used to the new environment, or that this may just be their resting colors. I'd keep a good eye on his behavior for any unusual behaviors, still, but because he's so new, it's maybe that he is feeling a little nervous.

 

[Maximus_Cham]

I think a fan for additional airflow in glass enclosure is benefitial. I use the one below on top of all my enclosures. Set it on a timer to run whenever the lights are on.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B751T5M5?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1