chevycham
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Okay I will copy and paste the help me form below. I think is he doing good, but I don't know because I am a first time owner. The opening of the mouth thing kind of bothers me. Granted I have seen no saliva build up or his nose being stuffed, he looks good minus the MBD. Am I just being paranoid? I have attached photos of his current status as of today what he looks like versus a few weeks ago on my first posting in the forum. Its probably wordy, but I didn't want to leave anything out.
Chameleon Info:
• Your Chameleon – Veiled Chameleon, Male, about 6 months old, Had him since May 09, 2014. (NEW OWNER OF ANY REPTILE)
• Handling – We take him out for maybe an hour. Now that isn’t full handling by us, we hold him for a little bit, but he goes on our tree in the living room and then we generally take him and put him back after about an hour.
• Feeding – Large & Small Crickets about 10 to 12 a day; mealworms about 2 a day; superworms (he has had maybe 2 in the past 2 weeks, they are big, so I try not to give those to him), I am waiting for the silk worms, butter worms and roaches to arrive, He gets fed everyday in the morning about an hour after wake up time. I place the orange cubes in with the crickets along with greens and carrots such as spinach, kale and cauliflower.
• Supplements – Repti Calcium Without D3 at every feed lightly dusted on all crickets, Flukers Calcium With D3 every other Sunday along with Exo Terra Multi Vitamin.
• Watering – Automatic Misting system set at 4 hours for 60 seconds. I have seen him drink the water that is dripping from leaves. I haven’t seen him do it a lot, but he could be doing it when we aren’t looking so I can’t be 100% on that.
• Fecal Description – Brown and White, same normal amount. No problem here as He goes pretty frequently.
• History – He has MBD. I was helped out my this forum and was told my little guy had MBD and to get to a vet. SO I did. He Was given Calcium then I was told to dust crickets at every feed with the proper supplements as listed above (multi-vitamin and calcium with D3 only every other Sunday). I also began added the veggies in to the crickets diet to give. This all took place around the 22nd of August when he was diagnosed. He was also in a glass enclosure which I changed to a full screen as of Friday with a pothos. I have attached photos. I am not sure if I am just being paranoid because I am a new reptile owner, and it was entirely my fault for the MBD because I was miss-guided by Pets Mart and I should have done more research than I did. Since he was found to have MBD, I have followed instructions and I just want to make sure or ask what you think. He does walk well, doing the dancing walk, he eats pretty well by catching them from around the cage or I made a feeder bowl that he grabs them out of. He hangs from his tail once in a while, he has gotten bigger since I started the new diet and vitamins, he shed with tail only, still haven’t seen his shed the other parts of his body. He climbs without an issue.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – All Screen, 18 x 18 x 36 (will be getting larger one soon, this was to get him out of the glass quickly).
• Lighting – UVB 5.0 Reptisun, Backing bulb by zoo med at 75W, and the long tube Florissant (have no clue if I spelled that right?). Okay I tuen the lights on when we get up in morning around 8am to 9am and they get turned off at bedtime around 9pm is when we usually put him to bed.
• Temperature – Up at the highest point where he basks it ranges from 85 to 95F, then lower go to around 75ish, at nighttime it seems to go around 70ish, I have an electronic temperature gauge.
• Humidity – this ranges from 40 to 60 depending on when the misters go off of course. I put a live pothos in there as I was told that live plants are much better and would help to maintain humidity.
• Plants – Yes - pothos
• Placement – He is catty corned in the Dining room on top of a stand that elevates its about 3 ft up, ceiling fan in there, but not directly over the cage, no vents over cage either.
• Location – Casa Grande, Arizona
Current Problem – Mostly I am curios what you think about how he looks now versus a few weeks ago. I know that it takes time. Given that he is mobile, climbing, eating, and drinking, I have seen him open his mouth and stay that way for a few moments, he also puffs up like an attitude (kind of funny), he puffs his chin and like blows up his abdomen. Am I just being paranoid? I am open and okay to any form of advice whether its to tell me I am doing something wrong or whatever else. I basically don’t mind criticism because his health is #1 for me right now.
Chameleon Info:
• Your Chameleon – Veiled Chameleon, Male, about 6 months old, Had him since May 09, 2014. (NEW OWNER OF ANY REPTILE)
• Handling – We take him out for maybe an hour. Now that isn’t full handling by us, we hold him for a little bit, but he goes on our tree in the living room and then we generally take him and put him back after about an hour.
• Feeding – Large & Small Crickets about 10 to 12 a day; mealworms about 2 a day; superworms (he has had maybe 2 in the past 2 weeks, they are big, so I try not to give those to him), I am waiting for the silk worms, butter worms and roaches to arrive, He gets fed everyday in the morning about an hour after wake up time. I place the orange cubes in with the crickets along with greens and carrots such as spinach, kale and cauliflower.
• Supplements – Repti Calcium Without D3 at every feed lightly dusted on all crickets, Flukers Calcium With D3 every other Sunday along with Exo Terra Multi Vitamin.
• Watering – Automatic Misting system set at 4 hours for 60 seconds. I have seen him drink the water that is dripping from leaves. I haven’t seen him do it a lot, but he could be doing it when we aren’t looking so I can’t be 100% on that.
• Fecal Description – Brown and White, same normal amount. No problem here as He goes pretty frequently.
• History – He has MBD. I was helped out my this forum and was told my little guy had MBD and to get to a vet. SO I did. He Was given Calcium then I was told to dust crickets at every feed with the proper supplements as listed above (multi-vitamin and calcium with D3 only every other Sunday). I also began added the veggies in to the crickets diet to give. This all took place around the 22nd of August when he was diagnosed. He was also in a glass enclosure which I changed to a full screen as of Friday with a pothos. I have attached photos. I am not sure if I am just being paranoid because I am a new reptile owner, and it was entirely my fault for the MBD because I was miss-guided by Pets Mart and I should have done more research than I did. Since he was found to have MBD, I have followed instructions and I just want to make sure or ask what you think. He does walk well, doing the dancing walk, he eats pretty well by catching them from around the cage or I made a feeder bowl that he grabs them out of. He hangs from his tail once in a while, he has gotten bigger since I started the new diet and vitamins, he shed with tail only, still haven’t seen his shed the other parts of his body. He climbs without an issue.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – All Screen, 18 x 18 x 36 (will be getting larger one soon, this was to get him out of the glass quickly).
• Lighting – UVB 5.0 Reptisun, Backing bulb by zoo med at 75W, and the long tube Florissant (have no clue if I spelled that right?). Okay I tuen the lights on when we get up in morning around 8am to 9am and they get turned off at bedtime around 9pm is when we usually put him to bed.
• Temperature – Up at the highest point where he basks it ranges from 85 to 95F, then lower go to around 75ish, at nighttime it seems to go around 70ish, I have an electronic temperature gauge.
• Humidity – this ranges from 40 to 60 depending on when the misters go off of course. I put a live pothos in there as I was told that live plants are much better and would help to maintain humidity.
• Plants – Yes - pothos
• Placement – He is catty corned in the Dining room on top of a stand that elevates its about 3 ft up, ceiling fan in there, but not directly over the cage, no vents over cage either.
• Location – Casa Grande, Arizona
Current Problem – Mostly I am curios what you think about how he looks now versus a few weeks ago. I know that it takes time. Given that he is mobile, climbing, eating, and drinking, I have seen him open his mouth and stay that way for a few moments, he also puffs up like an attitude (kind of funny), he puffs his chin and like blows up his abdomen. Am I just being paranoid? I am open and okay to any form of advice whether its to tell me I am doing something wrong or whatever else. I basically don’t mind criticism because his health is #1 for me right now.
I have been dusting with Calcium without D3 at every feed, and there others every other week. If I should give him more, I will certainly do that. I do have a bottle of liquid Calcium. If you think I should add more Calcium please tell me what I need to do and I will do it. Because I am fresh with this, I don't want to over do supplements cause that would be really bad. Any advice you offer I will take and utilize. Whatever I can do to make him comfortable and as healthy as I can, I am persist ant!
