chan_cham
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- Your Chameleon - Veiled Chameleon, Male, about 8 months old? I've had him around 5 or 6 of those.
- Handling - About 3 times a week for a max of 30 minutes, he has a very large indoor tree to roam on and enjoys the window.
- Feeding - Crickets, superworms, waxworms, dubias, hornworms. Gutloaded mostly with carrots, celery, strawberries. Using repti-cal with and without d3 powder, without is about 4 times a week, with has only recently started sadly
I also have flukers liquid vitamin - Supplements - answered that above, oops
- Watering - thrive spray bottle, a misting bottle, about twice a day. he drinks directly from the stream
- Fecal Description - white urates and healthy poops
- History - this was my sisters chameleon, which i believe was an uneducated impulse christmas gift? bought from petsmart. he sadly didnt get the best care, i tried to fix as much as i could about the set up as soon as i got it but i sadly dont have the funds to completely rehaul like it needs. i've never owned a chameleon (nor have i really wanted to (still dont)) but i've had reptiles before. just not ones as sensitive as this.
- Cage Type - screen cage, i think its the one from the common starter (death) kit
- Lighting - double domed lamp, our previous lamps broke. the bulb is a 100 watt thrive basking bulb, and the uvb is sadly the same one that came with the kit. i plan on getting him the better long uvb ASAP! and would like y'all's advice on which one to grab
- Temperature - His hot temp is 90-95, about 6 inches away from the top of the cage. the ambient is closer to high 70s, and the room temp is 69-70
- Humidity - unsure, the humidity gauge got stuck at 60 and i havent gotten a new one. his sheds are healthy and his eyes are far from sunken, from what i've seen though
- Plants - fake plants in the enclosure, but he has free game over the house plants that are safe for him, which he enjoys munching on.
- Placement - about 4 feet from a southern window, far from the ceiling vent in my bedroom.
- Location - south texas
so! i'm making another post about my chameleon aspen, i was hoping i could stick to just browsing the forums casually but that's sadly not the case. he had a casque burn, which recently sloughed. i've been putting polysporin (w/o painkillers) on the area about twice a day, at first he didnt react kindly but recently he's okay with me getting closer and only puffs a little. i'm worried about that because it means he's probably getting more lethargic. he also isn't getting sprayed down with water since i want to avoid any infection, and i've been giving him hornworms to hopefully make up for that. i'm worried that the prolonged use of poor uvb could be affecting him now, and i plan to find a way to get him a better light as soon as i possibly am able to, within a week at most. he's been growing a little lower energy gradually, but is still eating fine, besides ignoring crickets and dubias, which he's done before, because he's a brat. i would really like to take him to the vet, but sadly that would mean keeping him in a car, stressed out in a carrier for likely 2+ hours one way, and for care that i'm not sure would even be optimal since reptile vets in my area are extremely scarce. i'm aware his set up is incredibly sub par, and i hope to build his custom cage soon, which will be 5x2x2 (at the minimum). if anyone could point me in the right direction with this information, i would greatly appreciate it. i can't add any pictures at the moment but i can tomorrow if they would help. thank you so much to anyone who's read this!!
