CrazyFLChammy
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Chameleon Info: Vieled Chameleon, Male, About 9-11 months old, I have had it about 3 months
Handling - I try not to stress him out too often so I might hold him about 2 times a week if even.
Feeding - He gets about 6-7 Crickets daily and I put reptical calcium powder on them about 2-3 times a week and 2 times a month I give reptical multi vitamin supplement.
Watering - I have a spray with a mister 3 times a day he drinks lots of water everytime he gets his cage gets sprayed. I also put ice cubes on the top about 2 times a day and let it dripp on one of his plants. I have recently also added a dripping system but I never see him over there drinking where it drips.
Fecal Description - Never been tested that i know of. His droppings are solid and dark brown with the 2nd part a yellowish to slightly darker yellowish color.
History - I dont know anything about him before I got him he has always been very active so this is extreemly strange for him.
Cage Info:
Cage Type -wood frame coved with Screen cage 4 foot high by a little ove 2 foot wide . No wood is exposed to cham that is not covered by screen.
Lighting - He has a zoo med 50 watt basking light and a exo terra 5.0 uvb tube light.
Temperature - The basking spot is 90-95 degrees and the rest of the cage varies from 80 at the higer part of the cage to 70-75 at the bottom of the cage. night time is average of 65-70 all over as no bulbs or heat is used. He has 12 hrs light and 12 hrs dark.
The lowest I have seen it get was at teh cold part of our winter here and that was aprox 59-62 I tried to make sure that it was not able to get any lower than taht in the room as I have 7 Vieled Chams. They all are doing just fine (Just an FYI)
Humidity - His humidity ranges and lately I have not had a gague in his for about a week now it quit working. But he has a live plant in his cage and liek i said before his cage is misted 3 times a day as well as the other watering methods that have been mentioned.
Plants - He has live and fake plants in his cage. The live one is an Umbrella plant (can't remember the scientific name for it right now but it was on the list of safe plants and all my others are using the as well) He also has a few fake vines around his cage in different places.
Placement - His cage is in my office it is the least high traffic room of the house. His cage sits on the floor as it is too tall for me to be able to put it any higher with the other things in the room. He cant see the other Chams in the room they are seperated by dividers placed between each cage. His cage is 4 foot high though.
My location is Central Florida.
Current Problem - He is sleeping during the day. He will even go to sleep right on my hand. He eats ok and drinks plenty but he just closes his eyes and goes to sleep very often.
Please any help you can give would be great I am very worried about him and it is the weekend and there is only one vet opened where I live and he is not good with reptiles as I took a Flap neck that I use to own to him once and he said he needed antibiotics to cure a fungus that was eatting his foot ( this was a few years ago) and the cham did not get better took him to a diff vet the next week when he was missing more toes and he told me the vet gave him the wrong meds and that the meds he prescribed were unsafe for a cham so I really dont want to take him there but I am affarid if I dont do something now he might not be able to be saved by monday.
Handling - I try not to stress him out too often so I might hold him about 2 times a week if even.
Feeding - He gets about 6-7 Crickets daily and I put reptical calcium powder on them about 2-3 times a week and 2 times a month I give reptical multi vitamin supplement.
Watering - I have a spray with a mister 3 times a day he drinks lots of water everytime he gets his cage gets sprayed. I also put ice cubes on the top about 2 times a day and let it dripp on one of his plants. I have recently also added a dripping system but I never see him over there drinking where it drips.
Fecal Description - Never been tested that i know of. His droppings are solid and dark brown with the 2nd part a yellowish to slightly darker yellowish color.
History - I dont know anything about him before I got him he has always been very active so this is extreemly strange for him.
Cage Info:
Cage Type -wood frame coved with Screen cage 4 foot high by a little ove 2 foot wide . No wood is exposed to cham that is not covered by screen.
Lighting - He has a zoo med 50 watt basking light and a exo terra 5.0 uvb tube light.
Temperature - The basking spot is 90-95 degrees and the rest of the cage varies from 80 at the higer part of the cage to 70-75 at the bottom of the cage. night time is average of 65-70 all over as no bulbs or heat is used. He has 12 hrs light and 12 hrs dark.
The lowest I have seen it get was at teh cold part of our winter here and that was aprox 59-62 I tried to make sure that it was not able to get any lower than taht in the room as I have 7 Vieled Chams. They all are doing just fine (Just an FYI)
Humidity - His humidity ranges and lately I have not had a gague in his for about a week now it quit working. But he has a live plant in his cage and liek i said before his cage is misted 3 times a day as well as the other watering methods that have been mentioned.
Plants - He has live and fake plants in his cage. The live one is an Umbrella plant (can't remember the scientific name for it right now but it was on the list of safe plants and all my others are using the as well) He also has a few fake vines around his cage in different places.
Placement - His cage is in my office it is the least high traffic room of the house. His cage sits on the floor as it is too tall for me to be able to put it any higher with the other things in the room. He cant see the other Chams in the room they are seperated by dividers placed between each cage. His cage is 4 foot high though.
My location is Central Florida.
Current Problem - He is sleeping during the day. He will even go to sleep right on my hand. He eats ok and drinks plenty but he just closes his eyes and goes to sleep very often.
Please any help you can give would be great I am very worried about him and it is the weekend and there is only one vet opened where I live and he is not good with reptiles as I took a Flap neck that I use to own to him once and he said he needed antibiotics to cure a fungus that was eatting his foot ( this was a few years ago) and the cham did not get better took him to a diff vet the next week when he was missing more toes and he told me the vet gave him the wrong meds and that the meds he prescribed were unsafe for a cham so I really dont want to take him there but I am affarid if I dont do something now he might not be able to be saved by monday.
