hi
Pascal is a male yemen chameleon, not very old, probably not quite one month, his body is the length of my index finger, and i brought him home a week ago
i havent handled him yet, he will eat from my hand though, and at one point when i was trying to hand feed him, he ignored the cricket and used my finger as some kind of bridge between two branches ^^ im waiting until i feel he has settled down before i try and get him to be handled, so far if my hand goes in his flex without food, he backs away slowly
im feeding him small crickets at the moment,today he didnt seem interested so i dumped a few in the bottom, and he had a wax worm for the first time today, which i think may have been too big for him :/
i use a "little dripper" with shop bought water, that goes on for a hour twice a day, and in the morning i mist his plants until theyre dripping, and in the afternoon i mist them
he doesnt poop much, his most recent was dark brown, had a white bit, an a yellow bit
pascal came from a small but tightly packed reptile store, kept in a terrarium with other babies, bred in captivity
i have the exoterra flexarium 38, i hope to get the 100 gallon version when pascal is a bit bigger
i have a reptiglo 5.0 uvb bulb, it goes on at 0630 and off at 7 - 8ish
i use a pro rep 60w basking spot lamp for lighting, this morning he went without a heat bulb because hes 100w green bulb blew, i got another one after about 9 hours of him waking up
i use an unreliable hygrometer to measure humidity. i have been told by countless people on reptile forums that they dont use them because they're abit rubbish (£7. *sigh*) i mist the flex twice daily and im sure the plants will keep up the humidity, although it is pretty sticky outside at the moment so humidity isnt such a big problem maintaining
i have a small but wide coleus plant, his lilac tree died yesterday so i have had to put in some more fake plants and vines which he isnt overly keen on :/ im having trouble finding a decent plant store but im on the look out
my flex is in my room, which is the only room at the top of the house, no one really goes in except me and my friend, sometimes my reptile loving sister or my mom, but not often (the art of yelling up the stairs when they need me), it is near a window, but not next to one, kind of between the two, so during the day there is always natural light and heat coming in, and the windows are usually open, even when it is cold, theyre open a bit. the top of my flex is 1.5 metres from the floor. i dont live near any busy roads, although you can hear the soft noise of the bigger road a few houses away from my road, never any sirens, the occasional drunken group of teenagers taking a stroll, but that is it. i live on the south coast of england, about a 2 minute walk from the sea, so you get the occasional waft of low tide, regular drizzle and the incredibly rare "heat wave"
hope this has helped.
my problem is that just this evening i noticed that one of his eyes was closed, i watched him for a minute and it opened once, then closed again and i havent seen it open since. i dont like to stare at him so i dont know if it looks swolen or anything but in my opinion they look a little wrinkly, i worry that he isnt drinking, mainly because i havent seen him drink but i know i mist him enough. it was near to the time he goes to sleep, i was about to start moving his bed time later but since i noticed his eye i decided not to start changing things yet. i havent seen anything stuck in or around his eye. i did however notice that under his joints there was some white skin. i dont know if this means anything?
thanks
liz
(very worried. but i worry about everything)
