Weak or dying or something?

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Cage Info:
Cage Type - A 65 gallon full mesh cage.
Lighting - A heat lamp that lamp with the cage, and uv light that came with it as well, they have worked for the past 4 months.
Temperature - ~60 degrees at night and 70 in the day. ~85-90 degree basking area.
Humidity - ~60 % humidity, with sprayings about every 6 hours.
Plants - No live plants, fake vines.
Location - The cage is not near any form of constant air circulation.

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - A ~6 month old, (assuming) male veiled chameleon, yes I believe it has the spurs on its hind legs (little nubs behind the center gripping point.)
Feeding - I have been feeding it only crickets recently, I would throw about 5 a day on average in, or refill as necessary. I gut loaded the crickets with 2 types of cricket food (store bought) before throwing them (around a day later).
Supplements - I usually dust every other batch of 24 crickets, about twice a week dusting.
Watering - I spray the chameleon about 2 to 3 times a day, and have a dripper thing hanging from the cage, which I've seen it both drinking from the tube itself and drinking from the bowl that collects it.
Fecal Description - Recent droppings are brownish, seem to be usual what i've been seeing the whole time.
History - No big differences in coloration, a little bit of black/purple/silvery coloring on the edges of its frill off it's head, and eyebrow/crest line.
Current Problem - Well, I caught him trying to crawl along the ground, luckily i noticed my heat lamp was out and saw him struggling to get off a branch to the ground, thought his claws were just stuck, I then noticed him fully on the ground and seemingly unable to pick his head up very high, and he also has a very low stance now while walking. (Holding his body lower than his leg joints). I took him out he was still a little agressive when I touched him, and temperature seems normal, and I sprayed it with some water again which it drank a little bit, but it seems to moving really weak like it's sick or has a broken bone or something. It now has trouble climbing too, but it is not weakly skinny at all and rather fat. Any ideas, anybody? Thanks.
 
can you tell me what kind of lighting you are using.
i need an exact description.
does he/she have stripes for color? of is it more a whole green body?
 
can you tell me what kind of lighting you are using.

I just have a uv strip bulb going across the top of the cage that I turn on at about 10 in the morning and off at 9 at night, and the same goes for the heat lamp bulb which is about 2 inches away from one side of the cage.

does he/she have stripes for color?

Green overall body color, and vertical tan/yellowish stripes, with horizontal white hashes across the center of its body.


of is it more a whole green body?

but it's about 65-70% green.
 
Current position, hanging vertical grasping a branch with it's 2 front claws, and tail wrapped around a branch below it, with rear legs/feet hanging in the air, rear feet are rolling a slight bit and feet mildly twitch. Not much movement.
 
Ok so you do have a flouresent tube light.
what is the brand?
does sound like a male, stripes and tarsal spurs.

I think it is a flourescent tube light, not sure on the brand but it says uv 5.0 bulb from the package I ordered, and i've only had it for about 5 months so I don't think it's dimmed out yet.
 
ok, how was his grip when you were holding him?
was is tight or did he have a hard time holding on?
can you load a picture of him?

Grip was decent on me, seems to be maintaining holding onto the branch with just his front legs, not sure if it's as good as it was however, gimme a sec for a picture.
 
Does your UVB light have a plastic cover over it?

Supplements - I usually dust every other batch of 24 crickets, about twice a week dusting

What does that mean exactly?
 
That means I feed it a batch of 2 dozen crickets non dusted, then 24 dusted, on and off number changes a little bit, I usually dusted like 2 feedings a week about.

do i need a picture website to upload photos?
 
need WAY more than that with a growing chameleon.
Mon and Thur-Calcium(rotate weekly between D3 and NO D3)
Tues and Fri-Herptivite(multivitamin)
Wed and Sat-Minerall-I
 
need WAY more than that with a growing chameleon.
Mon and Thur-Calcium(rotate weekly between D3 and NO D3)
Tues and Fri-Herptivite(multivitamin)
Wed and Sat-Minerall-I

I was using calcium every feeding up until about a couple weeks ago thinking I was giving too much. I also switch off with waxworms too I thought calcium would be ok through them with half dusted crickets.
 
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Quality is harsh I was trying not to piss him off, but the bright areas are mainly green, the green he has been showing since I got him, some brown hints on his legs but that has been usual too.
 
ok,.... does you calcium have vitamin D3 in it?

Yeah, it's zoo med, repticalcium.

The uv bulb is in a plastic uv shell thing, facing down into the cage?


Having a tough time holding it's head up while walking, using mainly front legs rear legs seem to be working but it's not using them (so maybe they aren't?), it wants to climb up but is struggling climbing.
 
ok, you have been a member since august.
Chameleons can overdose on D3.
not to keep beating you."so to speak"
your cage looked really bare.
you have carpet and paper towels at the bottom of the cage.
That helps bacteria grow.
 
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