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[mapleheart_cats]

What are his cage temps, and has he been eating?

They have been eating and cage temps are 70 in non basking areas and in basking areas high 70s to low ish 80s

 

[mapleheart_cats]

What changes have you made so far, if any? Sadly everything in your cage is incorrect and will cause death if it hasn’t already. Chameleons don’t need hides, they need plants and branches and a completely different set up. If he survives the night, go to a pet store as soon as it opens tomorrow and buy a screen cage, either a Zoo Med ReptiSun or Arcadia T5HO fixture that at minimum spans the length of the screen cage you buy is, either a Zoo Med ReptiSun 5.0 or Arcadia 6% T5HO uvb bulb that is the length that goes in the fixture you buy, a digital probed thermometer, either Zoo Med ReptiCalcium without D3 or Repashy NoD, either Zoo Med Reptivite with D3 or Repashy CalciumPlus LoD (jacksons cham on the bottle), Repashy Bug Burger if they have it (if not you’ll have to go to the grocery store to buy organic veggies off of the chart below), 1/4” feeders if you don’t have any already (order from online bug stores in the future), and Fluker’s small and medium (if he’s big enough to securely grasp the diameter of the medium size) Bend-a-Branch vines (like at least 5 if you can’t get any branches-more on that below). Then go to a local nursery/garden center/home improvement store to get live plants that are veiled safe (I recommend a shefflera arboricola- aka umbrella plant- and a couple of pothos or all pothos, but you’ll need around 6+ (depending on cage size- that’s for a 2’x2’x4’ tall cage) if only using pothos. Grab organic potting soil while you’re there, too, along with at least one basic digital thermometer/hygrometer combo from the weather section, uv resistant zip ties, and a bag of rocks that are too big for him to eat. Then go to a pesticide free area (if your house isn’t one) to cut down oak, maple, manzanita, birch, and/or crepe myrtle branches of small diameters ( so he’s able to grip them comfortably), or call a tree trimming company to get some if they’ll have any that day if there’s no areas around you to get branches from. You’ll wash the branches and plants with Dawn dish soap (underside of the leaves, the root ball, everything for the plants) and water (hot water for the branches, and air dry the branches in the sun). Make sure to rinse really, really well, too. Then you’ll repot the plants in the organic potting soil and cover the soil with the rocks. Then you’ll plant and branch the cage (have a majority of the branches horizontal, and secure all of them), with at least one pothos near the top, set up the uvb (8-9” away from his basking branch) and add his heat bulb (white light bulb only, grab one from the pet store if his current bulb is colored) and dome fixture for the heat bulb (grab one if you don’t already have one, too) on top of the cage (raised up for heat bulb and the uvb, too, if possible). Place the probed digital thermometer on his basking branch and secure it, and the digital combo thermometer/hygrometer near the bottom of his cage, then add him. This is a bare bones set up but will give him everything he needs for now

Got it I have gotten more feeders and a new light along with more vitamins and supplements. The cage will take some time to get but will be here in about a week or so

 

[ERKleRose]

Got it I have gotten more feeders and a new light along with more vitamins and supplements. The cage will take some time to get but will be here in about a week or so

What light and supplements have you gotten? What are you gutloading with?
That is too late, get a screen cage tomorrow. It doesn’t need to be the 2’x2’x4’ one

 

[ERKleRose]

They have been eating and cage temps are 70 in non basking areas and in basking areas high 70s to low ish 80s

Try to keep basking at 80*F when you upgrade him tomorrow

 

[mapleheart_cats]

What light and supplements have you gotten? What are you gutloading with?
That is too late, get a screen cage tomorrow. It doesn’t need to be the 2’x2’x4’ one

I have repti calcium without d
3 and calcium with d3

 

[ERKleRose]

Get Zoo Med Reptivite without D3 at the pet store then

 

[ERKleRose]

Is the calcium with D3 also Zoo Med?

 

[mapleheart_cats]

Is the calcium with D3 also Zoo Med?

I think it is I'm at work so I'll check when I get home