chamchamcham1
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So I'm currently babysitting a baby female chameleon (less than 5 months old). But recently, the chameleon has been acting really weird. She didn't eat the crickets(although sometimes she would try to catch them and end up eating dirt), she spends the whole day on the ground with a brownish-green color on her (with dark stripes), she doesn't move much, and I sometimes think I always walk in on her sleeping (even if it's the day). My mom thought the rotting branches and leaves were the problem, so replaced the old ones with new ones, but she still wouldn't go up. I would only find her in the tree when I go to turn the lights on and off. She seems sick, but I don't know what the problem is, and I really don't want her to die since this is my friend's chameleon.
Here are the details-
-She usually eats 3-5 crickets a day(sometimes there would be calcium dusted), but lately she hasn't had a single cricket. Instead she eats meal worms(calcium dusted) and a bit of tomato
-The light is UVB, 75 w
-She lives in a glass cage (I heard that glass blocks UV rays... Does that mean the cham never got UV rays?)
-She used to live in a big glass cage, but since that cage was too heavy to bring, she now currently lives in a substitute cage, which is much smaller
-I mist the cage around 4-5 a day
-No drippers
-When I think it is too hot, I usually move the cage further from the light and that used to make her go up, but now it doesn't work
-She doesn't have sunken eyes
-When I go check on her to turn the lights on, she is usually bright/dark green
-The leaves and branches were rotting, therefore giving the whole cage a nasty scent (but now replaced)
-Seems a little too young to want babies? (When they got her in the pet store, she was too young for the vets to know which gender she was and they only had her for around 3 months)
-I don't handle her often, maybe once a week
-The feces wasn't runny or anything, but it was really dry and sometimes white
-Sometimes I would find her sleeping on the floor
Here are the details-
-She usually eats 3-5 crickets a day(sometimes there would be calcium dusted), but lately she hasn't had a single cricket. Instead she eats meal worms(calcium dusted) and a bit of tomato
-The light is UVB, 75 w
-She lives in a glass cage (I heard that glass blocks UV rays... Does that mean the cham never got UV rays?)
-She used to live in a big glass cage, but since that cage was too heavy to bring, she now currently lives in a substitute cage, which is much smaller
-I mist the cage around 4-5 a day
-No drippers
-When I think it is too hot, I usually move the cage further from the light and that used to make her go up, but now it doesn't work
-She doesn't have sunken eyes
-When I go check on her to turn the lights on, she is usually bright/dark green
-The leaves and branches were rotting, therefore giving the whole cage a nasty scent (but now replaced)
-Seems a little too young to want babies? (When they got her in the pet store, she was too young for the vets to know which gender she was and they only had her for around 3 months)
-I don't handle her often, maybe once a week
-The feces wasn't runny or anything, but it was really dry and sometimes white
-Sometimes I would find her sleeping on the floor