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[tonezone3]

Chameleon Info:

Your Chameleon - Veiled Chameleon, male, 1 year old
How long has it been in your care? 5 monthes
Handling - once every other week
Feeding - 4 crickets a day dusted twice a week with calcium. Feeding the crickets dry cricket food, and cricket quencher. Sometimes I feed him a superworm, but haven't in a while.
Supplements - Flukers calcium with vitamin d3
Watering - I have a dripper that drips down from the top into a cup. He will drink from straight form the dripper, or out of the cup. I see him drink almost every day.
Fecal Description - Liquid white



Cage Info:

Cage Type - I have a homemade cage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8WKx_mm_60
Lighting - Turn lights on at 10am and turn them off at 10 pm
Temperature - Temp usually stays at 85 all day. At night it drops to about 65-60
Humidity - around 50%
Plants - No live plants
Placement - Cage is in my room. Sometimes a fan is running that goes back and forth, and the wind will sometimes go towards his cage. The cage is on my desk so the top is over 5 feet above the ground.
Location - Indiana


Current Problem - My chameleon basically stopped eating about 2 weeks ago. Well he didn't eat for a day and a half. Then he gradually started eating again. I usually feed him the crickets out of this small bowl, but he wasn't interested at all. So he started acting normal once he started eating again, but now he is acting strange again. He will only eat about every other day. He went 2 days without eating once. I let the crickets just roam and he would eat them sometimes this way recently. Now his arm is doing this weird twitching thing. Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86NoZA-HsaE

 

[justjumpit621]

are you giving him any multivitamins??? NOT just the D3? Chameleons NEED vitamin A, it is vital to their health.

Also he needs to be seen by a vet ASAP, that twitch is a sign of neurological damage.

 

[Jbujarski]

D3 should only be used 2 a month. While a plain calcium with no d3 should be a light dusting every feeding. He may have too much d3 which is causing the weird behavior

 

[Jbujarski]

Also fill out the full Help form, with specific such as lights. Are you using a uvb?

 

[tonezone3]

the dry food that I give the crickets has vitamin A. Is that not enough?

 

[justjumpit621]

the dry food that I give the crickets has vitamin A. Is that not enough?

No veileds need a plain calcium supplement at every feeding, a calcium with D3 twice a month, and a multivitamin with vitamin A once a month. The cricket food is not enough and if you are only giving calcium with D3 for 5 months your chameleon could be in serious danger. So the only thing you can do now is bring him to the vet and have them run tests. Also fill out the how to as for help form fully so we can see what lighting your using and other things that may be relevant

It already looks like he is showing signs of neurological damage, and not eating well is never a good sign.

 

[tonezone3]

Ok I will have to do that. I just kept doing what the person before me that had him was doing. When I got him everything was fine, so I don't know why it is just now happening.

 

[tonezone3]

I have a repti basking light. 150w. Not sure what else you would need me to tell you

 

[justjumpit621]

Ok I will have to do that. I just kept doing what the person before me that had him was doing. When I got him everything was fine, so I don't know why it is just now happening.

It takes a while for signs of illness to actually start to show in chameleons, and who knows how long they had him before you. If you tell us abouts where you live we can help find you a really good reptile vet, because if the vet isn't familiar with chameleons that too can end in a tragedy =( I and other members would know that first hand...

 

[justjumpit621]

I have a repti basking light. 150w. Not sure what else you would need me to tell you

You need a UVB bulb as well, what type of bulb is that? You would need a basking "heat" bulb to give around a 100 degree basking spot, and a UVB bulb so he can process the D3 you are giving him. a reptiglo 5.0 linear tube bulb is #1 recommended

you can use a regular flourescent frosted bulb for heat, there's no need to buy a specialty reptile basking bulb they are no different except for the price.

 

[tonezone3]

I know the person who had it before me, and they got him as a baby. I have found a reptile vet through google that is somewhat near me.

 

[justjumpit621]

I know the person who had it before me, and they got him as a baby. I have found a reptile vet through google that is somewhat near me.

Hopefully you are able to fix your setup in time and a vet is able to catch whatever is going on with him. If you can swing it have them run a full blood panel to check his kidney and liver levels as well. Chameleons are so hard, I hope your little guy will be okay if it is warm enough take him outside for some natural sun as well, it is the best for them.

 

[tonezone3]

Thanks for the help.