lizzleberry
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hi
i have a 5-6 week old male chameleon
i have recently noticed that he has been squeaking occasionally, and he has started making hissing noises when i come near or pick him up.
he needs to be picked up at the moment because he got an eye infection and the vet gave me eye drops, which he needs 2-3 times a day, every day,
i was not too worried by this squeaking problem, but now it is slightly noticable. the other day he ate a cricket that was too large for him, the antena got stuck in his mouth, i used tweezers to pull it out and i think he has digested the stuck cricket and he is eating again. i not so long ago cleaned him out. i just use bottled water to clean the bottom of his flex - take out the plant on the floor, remove the newspaper, get rid of the poop, let the floor dry and then put fresh paper down and put the plant back. (any one know a better way of doing this?)
he lives in a 38gallon flexarium until he gets bigger, eats crickets and locusts, the occasional waxworm, i mist him twice a day until the whole flexarium is dripping. i do not gut load the crickets as they come from a pet shop, and the pet shop crickets are readily gut loaded.
he has mostly fake plants and vines, but one live plant, which is a coleus plant bought from homebase. he has had this a while now, this morning i noticed him munching on a leaf. i assume this is ok as the plant was down on a "safe for chameleons" list.
so does anybody know why he might be squeaking/hissing. the squeaks, when i do hear them are usually a good half hour appart, never in any particular pattern, he squeaks when he is trying to get away from me, when he was smaller he never did hiss or squeak, it started after his first hiss when the vet insisted on holding him "firmly" which i have never done before. i cannot wait for the eye drops to be done with because i know he hates them.
thanks for any opinions and advice,
liz
(about my set up)
hi
Pascal is a male yemen chameleon, not very old, probably not quite one month, his body is the length of my index finger, and i brought him home 4 weeks ago (just measured roughly 7cm)
he is handled twice a day for his eye drops, which were givven to me by the vet. normally i catch him, (difficult, i try to be gentle and usually wait until he mistakes me hand for a branch and then lift him out) wait for him to finish being frightened, put in the eye drops, maybe take a photo or let him wonder around, he never goes darker than his usual happy green, and then put him back.
im feeding him small crickets at the moment, the occasional locust or wax worm no more than once every 2 weeks if i have some
i gave up using the drip system as there is no evidence of it being any use, it just floods the bottom of his flex. i mist him until the whole flex is dripping, every leaf is wet, and mist from above the flex so it drips from the top as well, i do this twice a day.
he doesnt poop much, his most recent was dark brown, had a white bit, white bit is occasionally next to some yellow liquid goo
pascal came from a small but tightly packed reptile store, kept in a terrarium with other babies, bred in captivity
i have the exoterra flexarium 38, i hope to get the 100 gallon version when pascal is a bit bigger
i have a reptiglo 5.0 uvb bulb, it goes on at 7am, and off at 7am. when it is not on, i keep the entire room as dark as it will go.
i use a pro rep 100w basking spot lamp for lighting, it is often not enough and i cannot get the room above 26degrees until the afternoon, so he tends to bask a lot, but he will go to the bottom to eat.
i use an unreliable hygrometer to measure humidity. i have been told by countless people on reptile forums that they dont use them because they're abit rubbish (£7. *sigh*)
i have a small but wide coleus plant, he had a much loved lilac tree, it is still recovering in the greenhouse, i should be able to put it back for a short time in a few weeks, i know he likes that one. he also has some fake plants hanging from his vines.
my flex is in my room, which is the only room at the top of the house, no one really goes in except me and my friend, sometimes my reptile loving sister or my mom, but not often (the art of yelling up the stairs when they need me), it is near a window, but not next to one, kind of between the two, so during the day there is always natural light and heat coming in, and the windows are usually open, even when it is cold, theyre open a bit. the top of my flex is 1.5 metres from the floor. i dont live near any busy roads, although you can hear the soft noise of the bigger road a few houses away from my road, never any sirens, the occasional drunken group of teenagers taking a stroll, but that is it. i live on the south coast of england, about a 2 minute walk from the sea, so you get the occasional waft of low tide, regular drizzle and the incredibly rare "heat wave"
i have a 5-6 week old male chameleon
i have recently noticed that he has been squeaking occasionally, and he has started making hissing noises when i come near or pick him up.
he needs to be picked up at the moment because he got an eye infection and the vet gave me eye drops, which he needs 2-3 times a day, every day,
i was not too worried by this squeaking problem, but now it is slightly noticable. the other day he ate a cricket that was too large for him, the antena got stuck in his mouth, i used tweezers to pull it out and i think he has digested the stuck cricket and he is eating again. i not so long ago cleaned him out. i just use bottled water to clean the bottom of his flex - take out the plant on the floor, remove the newspaper, get rid of the poop, let the floor dry and then put fresh paper down and put the plant back. (any one know a better way of doing this?)
he lives in a 38gallon flexarium until he gets bigger, eats crickets and locusts, the occasional waxworm, i mist him twice a day until the whole flexarium is dripping. i do not gut load the crickets as they come from a pet shop, and the pet shop crickets are readily gut loaded.
he has mostly fake plants and vines, but one live plant, which is a coleus plant bought from homebase. he has had this a while now, this morning i noticed him munching on a leaf. i assume this is ok as the plant was down on a "safe for chameleons" list.
so does anybody know why he might be squeaking/hissing. the squeaks, when i do hear them are usually a good half hour appart, never in any particular pattern, he squeaks when he is trying to get away from me, when he was smaller he never did hiss or squeak, it started after his first hiss when the vet insisted on holding him "firmly" which i have never done before. i cannot wait for the eye drops to be done with because i know he hates them.
thanks for any opinions and advice,
liz
(about my set up)
hi
Pascal is a male yemen chameleon, not very old, probably not quite one month, his body is the length of my index finger, and i brought him home 4 weeks ago (just measured roughly 7cm)
he is handled twice a day for his eye drops, which were givven to me by the vet. normally i catch him, (difficult, i try to be gentle and usually wait until he mistakes me hand for a branch and then lift him out) wait for him to finish being frightened, put in the eye drops, maybe take a photo or let him wonder around, he never goes darker than his usual happy green, and then put him back.
im feeding him small crickets at the moment, the occasional locust or wax worm no more than once every 2 weeks if i have some
i gave up using the drip system as there is no evidence of it being any use, it just floods the bottom of his flex. i mist him until the whole flex is dripping, every leaf is wet, and mist from above the flex so it drips from the top as well, i do this twice a day.
he doesnt poop much, his most recent was dark brown, had a white bit, white bit is occasionally next to some yellow liquid goo
pascal came from a small but tightly packed reptile store, kept in a terrarium with other babies, bred in captivity
i have the exoterra flexarium 38, i hope to get the 100 gallon version when pascal is a bit bigger
i have a reptiglo 5.0 uvb bulb, it goes on at 7am, and off at 7am. when it is not on, i keep the entire room as dark as it will go.
i use a pro rep 100w basking spot lamp for lighting, it is often not enough and i cannot get the room above 26degrees until the afternoon, so he tends to bask a lot, but he will go to the bottom to eat.
i use an unreliable hygrometer to measure humidity. i have been told by countless people on reptile forums that they dont use them because they're abit rubbish (£7. *sigh*)
i have a small but wide coleus plant, he had a much loved lilac tree, it is still recovering in the greenhouse, i should be able to put it back for a short time in a few weeks, i know he likes that one. he also has some fake plants hanging from his vines.
my flex is in my room, which is the only room at the top of the house, no one really goes in except me and my friend, sometimes my reptile loving sister or my mom, but not often (the art of yelling up the stairs when they need me), it is near a window, but not next to one, kind of between the two, so during the day there is always natural light and heat coming in, and the windows are usually open, even when it is cold, theyre open a bit. the top of my flex is 1.5 metres from the floor. i dont live near any busy roads, although you can hear the soft noise of the bigger road a few houses away from my road, never any sirens, the occasional drunken group of teenagers taking a stroll, but that is it. i live on the south coast of england, about a 2 minute walk from the sea, so you get the occasional waft of low tide, regular drizzle and the incredibly rare "heat wave"
