herpluver64
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled Chamy, bought from Petsmart as a fathers day gift, what a surprise. Female, she laid eggs once already. Age??? a year, maybe more.
Handling - Only handled with sticks for cage cleaning.
Feeding - Crickets & mealworms gut-loading with veggies, fruit and layer chicken crumbles. 1/2 dozen of each offered every other day in a bowl and dusted with ZooMed repti-calcium
Supplements - Reptisafe liquid drops (2-4) per 8oz to water drip, twice a week.
Watering - cage misted a couple of times a day. I usually set a cup to drip a couple of times a day and she drinks from the drips.
Fecal Description - Will check on recent droppings. No test for parasites. Hoping she's captive breed.
History - given as a fathers day gift this year and age not known.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Glass sides with screen top. 18 wide and deep BY 24" tall.
Lighting - ceramic heat on all the time at cage top in a corner. Incandesant on for 12 hours in opposite corner for basking, don't recall the manufacturer but bought at PetsMart as an UVB emitting bulb
Temperature - Basking spot 95f and lower cage around 75f
Humidity - Dial humidistate in cage completed by misting, drip irrigation and live pothos plant
Plants - one live pothos strung around for walking
Placement - Cage is on a stand around 32" off the floor.
Location - located in northern Ohio in the gray zone of NO sunshine.
Thought at first she was looking to lay eggs again when she was on the bottom of the tank. After a day or 2 of observation she does not appear to be doing so. She is too weak looking for that. She has trouble with her limbs and grasping branches. Does not seem to be able to climb and maintain her position. This morning (Christmas Day) I fed her 4 recently shed mealworms for easy digestion and soaked her in my hand in a bowl of water for a half hour. She is now in a hospital tank on a towel with the heat and light closer. Infra red thermometer says her back is 86f. I want to keep her monitored for temp and poop.
Since finding your site:
Sounds like MBD. - Change the light source? mercury vapor / florescent?
I've kept and breed hundreds of snakes, dozens of L.geckos, B.dragons and others. This is the first Chamy. All help is greatly appreciated. If photos or video help I can try that.
Your Chameleon - Veiled Chamy, bought from Petsmart as a fathers day gift, what a surprise. Female, she laid eggs once already. Age??? a year, maybe more.
Handling - Only handled with sticks for cage cleaning.
Feeding - Crickets & mealworms gut-loading with veggies, fruit and layer chicken crumbles. 1/2 dozen of each offered every other day in a bowl and dusted with ZooMed repti-calcium
Supplements - Reptisafe liquid drops (2-4) per 8oz to water drip, twice a week.
Watering - cage misted a couple of times a day. I usually set a cup to drip a couple of times a day and she drinks from the drips.
Fecal Description - Will check on recent droppings. No test for parasites. Hoping she's captive breed.
History - given as a fathers day gift this year and age not known.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Glass sides with screen top. 18 wide and deep BY 24" tall.
Lighting - ceramic heat on all the time at cage top in a corner. Incandesant on for 12 hours in opposite corner for basking, don't recall the manufacturer but bought at PetsMart as an UVB emitting bulb
Temperature - Basking spot 95f and lower cage around 75f
Humidity - Dial humidistate in cage completed by misting, drip irrigation and live pothos plant
Plants - one live pothos strung around for walking
Placement - Cage is on a stand around 32" off the floor.
Location - located in northern Ohio in the gray zone of NO sunshine.
Thought at first she was looking to lay eggs again when she was on the bottom of the tank. After a day or 2 of observation she does not appear to be doing so. She is too weak looking for that. She has trouble with her limbs and grasping branches. Does not seem to be able to climb and maintain her position. This morning (Christmas Day) I fed her 4 recently shed mealworms for easy digestion and soaked her in my hand in a bowl of water for a half hour. She is now in a hospital tank on a towel with the heat and light closer. Infra red thermometer says her back is 86f. I want to keep her monitored for temp and poop.
Since finding your site:
Sounds like MBD. - Change the light source? mercury vapor / florescent?
I've kept and breed hundreds of snakes, dozens of L.geckos, B.dragons and others. This is the first Chamy. All help is greatly appreciated. If photos or video help I can try that.
I know how you feel now. My girl passed away in May, she became eggbound...
