Veiled cham with grey head?

rybryantt

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I have a male veiled chameleon, he's 6 months old and for the past two month his has had a grey head. He since has shed twice but his head is still grey...

I had a few thoughts as to what it could be but he's my first cham so do want to just assume, when he basks he likes to do so as closely as possible his basking spot is always between 28-30 degrees celcius, could it be dry skin although he is misted regulary?

Or my second thought... could it be his diet and dusting... His live food is gut loaded and I use a regular calci-dust and nutrobal from pets at home, calci-dust used 3-4 meals per week and nutrobal just once a week as he only eats one locust/hooper/cricket a day.

I have looked around for a better calcium supplement and found repti-calcium with d3 but Im not sure how often to use it and if i need other supplments on top? (i.e nutrobal)?

Other than those suggestions im stuck... but really could do with some advice, I will post a picture or two below :)
 

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He is misted as regulary, and his hummidity level is always inbetween 50-70%... his eye's are always clear and not sunken as you can tell by the picture above.. Im just confused what I could be doing wrong :/

I have never heard of dry skin on chameleons.. but thats what is looks like to me.
 
I think it looks like shed but that would seem like an awful long time to shed the dry skin. I did have a panther that had some skin on his head that was similar to this and just would never peel off. I took a little bit of mineral oil on a qtip and it softened it up. Maybe you could try some on a small spot and see if it does not loosen up the shed, if that is what it turns out to be.
 
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