female jacksons chameleon not eating

Hi I've had my chameleon for about 4 days and she does see the food and seems interested but doesn't attempt to eat anything. chameleon doesn't seem to be shedding and i don't know if it may be pregnant or not or I'm just taking care of it poorly. here is my Info

Your Chameleon - Female Jacksons chameleon i've had for about 4 days
Handling - when i need to clean the cage.
Feeding - i feed her medium to large crickets and sometimes silkworms.
Supplements - tetrafauna reptocal and rep-cal herptavite
Watering - I mist the tank with a spray bottle. twice a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Yes my chameleon is drinking normally
Fecal Description - brown and the white is cream colored. has never been tested for parasites
History - Chameleon is healthy and alert. she just wanders about the cage and drinks but does not eat.


Cage Info:

Cage Type - reptibreeze open air screen cage. 16 x 16 x 20
Lighting - exo terra 50W basking spot. and repti glo 5.0 UVB
Temperature - about 60-90 degrees depending on where in the cage
Humidity - 50-70% humidity.
Plants - no live pants
Placement - in my bedroom on a table by a window
Location - New Jersey

I will also be attaching pictures of my chameleon.

takashi10 said:

Hi I've had my chameleon for about 4 days and she does see the food and seems interested but doesn't attempt to eat anything. Supplements - tetrafauna reptocal and rep-cal herptavite
Watering - I mist the tank with a spray bottle. twice a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Yes my chameleon is drinking normally
Cage Type - reptibreeze open air screen cage. 16 x 16 x 20
Temperature - about 60-90 degrees depending on where in the cage
Humidity - 50-70% humidity.
Plants - no live pants

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She's still adjusting to the move and is distracted by her new space. It can take a week for a new cham to start eating much. Keep her drinking for now. Don't offer too many feeders at once. All the motion is sort of mesmerizing. If she can't hide from your view she may not eat in front of you.

Jax are easily oversupplemented. You don't want to dust with plain calcium (no D3) more than once or twice a week, dust with calcium with D3 once every couple of weeks, and vitamins only once a month to 6 weeks. Good gutloading is much more important...what do you feed her insects?

90F is too warm even right under the basking light. Move the light farther away from the cage top to lower the temp to 80. At least 10 degree temp drop at night, and no lights at night.

Without live plants you are going to have a harder time keeping the cage humidity high enough unless your room is normally 60% humid.