Loki
New Member
Ive noticed that when I take my chameleon out of his cage so I can clean it he actually turns lighter rather than darker. I put this to the test today, I had to clean his substrate so I took him out of the cage (light colors, no change) my husband held him while I took out the substrate then we put him back in while I cleaned it and let it dry. He may be having some trouble with dealing with change in his enclosure I think, because he seemed really stressed by the difference. He changed to his dark - stress colors and when I came back quite a while after to check on him he hadnt changed. So just to test my theory that he always will change lighter when I take him out of his cage I put my hand in for him to climb on, I got him out of his cage and immediately he changed back to his regular light green color. Do you think maybe he could be afraid of his enclosure? Its sized for a full grown adult (hes still a baby) Temp ranges 90 f at the top to 75 f or so at the bottom. He has a drip system and a small shallow pond which he drinks from (cleaned daily) and the only other unusual thing I can think of about his enclosure is that some of the fake vines I put in there were red because I couldnt find any green this time of year. What do you think??
