Lumi
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- Your Chameleon - Panther female, roughly 7 months old. Her name is Poppy.
- Handling - I handled her a few times when I first got her and once or twice to get her to move under the light because she's always brown when I put her in her new cage (roughly two weeks ago) since then I haven't touched her, am making a a point not to. She will eat from my hand usually when I offer it.
- Feeding -5-10 dusted large crickets fed commercial gutload supplement (mazuri) everyday, superworms for treats every other day. I also ordered some BSFL and they're on the way. She refuses dubia roaches.
- Supplements - calcium w/out D3 every feeding, reptivite vitamins twice a month.
- Watering - Misting twice daily (7:15 am and pm) for two minutes and I also have a fogger that runs for ten minutes every 4 hours to keep the humidity up
- Fecal Description - Looks like it should according to chameleon academy. Solid, but packaged in that gelatin kind of look, urates are either white or light orange
- History - got her from petco about a month ago and for the first two weeks her tank was too small before I upgraded her to proper enclosure about a week ago
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Hybrid mostly glass cage, I live in a very dry environment. 2x2x4, the screen is only on the top. Bioactive with leap soil on the bottom for the plants and a drainage layer with ceramic balls. Just got it all put together, isopods and springtails are on the way.
- Lighting - arcadia 6% forest uvb bulb in a T0H5 mirrored 24" holder
- Temperature - bottom of the cage is about 70 during the day, top is between 70-75. under her basking light (blue daylight incandescent) i have a probe thermometer and i keep it between 80-85 per the chameleon academy, both lights go off between 7am and 7 pm.
- Humidity - between 40-60% 24 hours a day
- Plants -pothos, spider plant, fittonia, schefflera, arrowhead, ruffle fern, and some fake plants to fill in until the pothos get bigger
- Placement - on a table in my office, the top of her cage is about 6 feet off the ground
- Location - Montana, US
My concern is that she always hangs out on a vine below the hanging plants and is brown. She lightens up to pink when she eats, and usually in the late afternoon she'll move up to the basking area, but otherwise she doesn't use it at all. I have a probe thermometer so I know it isn't too hot up there. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong and I'm sad she's unhappy.
Pictures: 1: tank set up
2. Where she usually sits and her color (yes I'm aware she's shedding, but she has been doing this since I got her and has only started this shed yesterday)
3: One picture i got of her basking in the basking area, in my experience the dark black lines with the yellow in between are colors when she's frightened. Once in her old cage I was moving vines and she went those colors really bright and popped out her throat and opened her mouth wide (hasn't done it since, but it's how I figured those are upset colors)
4. These are more of what I think are her resting colors, shes a pale pink when she's sleeping, and usually when she eats she gets that color too, or at least close to it.
5. basking area. You can see the probe and I have the other thing in there for the humidity on the top half.
6. position of tank in the room. I'm a writer so I sit at the desk for a lot of the day.
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