skyedog
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Your Chameleon - Mellers chameleon, unknown age/sex. Purchased 10/16/10.
Handling - Handled only for inspection of chameleon and weighing.
Feeding - Feeding crickets, superworms, silkworms, and dubia. On occasion a hornworm or two. Usually 6-8 feeders a day, sometimes a few more. I'm gutloading with a recipe I saw on Melleri Discovery.
Supplements - Calcium w/o d3 3-4 times a week, calcium with d3 2x/month.
Watering - Mist King with extended mistings (up to 20min at a time) 2-3 times a day. Dripper also going for part of the day. Cage does dry out in between mistings. He drinks and gets right into the mist each time. I'll cut down mistings a bit when he's acclimated more.
Fecal Description - Fecal looks good. White urate.
Cage Type - 260 Gallon Reptarium, free range in process.
Lighting - 2 Basking lights, 1 is a 40 watt Philips Halogena which he prefers to be under, second is a 60 watt regular bulb. Also a 36" reptisun uvb 10.0
Temperature - Normal temp in the enclosure is 74 in the higher area, 72 in the mid range, and on occasion 68-70 at the cage floor. The basking areas are right around 85, sometimes a degree or two higher. I measure temps with an infared heat gun, but I also have an indoor/outdoor thermometer that has a 6 foot probe that sits in the middle of the enclosure.
Humidity - Humidity is usually around 65 percent, but I've seen it go down to 45-50 for a short time, and as high as 76 during and right after mistings, measured with the indoor/outdoor thermometer which also measures humidity.
Plants - Large scheffelera and lots of pothos
Placement - Cage is located in my room, no traffic besides me. The enclosure is elevated due to drainage, so the top of it is about 7 - 8 feet off the ground.
Location - Northwestern NJ
On Oct 23rd I weighed the chameleon and the weight was 151 grams. He's 7 inches snout to vent. Today I weighed him and he was 175 grams. Is this too much of a weight gain in 2 weeks? He eats like a horse, but I didn't know if it was healthy for him to gain 24 grams in 2 weeks. Can this cause any health problems? I'm just trying to keep a very close eye on him because I know how touchy w/c mellers are.
Handling - Handled only for inspection of chameleon and weighing.
Feeding - Feeding crickets, superworms, silkworms, and dubia. On occasion a hornworm or two. Usually 6-8 feeders a day, sometimes a few more. I'm gutloading with a recipe I saw on Melleri Discovery.
Supplements - Calcium w/o d3 3-4 times a week, calcium with d3 2x/month.
Watering - Mist King with extended mistings (up to 20min at a time) 2-3 times a day. Dripper also going for part of the day. Cage does dry out in between mistings. He drinks and gets right into the mist each time. I'll cut down mistings a bit when he's acclimated more.
Fecal Description - Fecal looks good. White urate.
Cage Type - 260 Gallon Reptarium, free range in process.
Lighting - 2 Basking lights, 1 is a 40 watt Philips Halogena which he prefers to be under, second is a 60 watt regular bulb. Also a 36" reptisun uvb 10.0
Temperature - Normal temp in the enclosure is 74 in the higher area, 72 in the mid range, and on occasion 68-70 at the cage floor. The basking areas are right around 85, sometimes a degree or two higher. I measure temps with an infared heat gun, but I also have an indoor/outdoor thermometer that has a 6 foot probe that sits in the middle of the enclosure.
Humidity - Humidity is usually around 65 percent, but I've seen it go down to 45-50 for a short time, and as high as 76 during and right after mistings, measured with the indoor/outdoor thermometer which also measures humidity.
Plants - Large scheffelera and lots of pothos
Placement - Cage is located in my room, no traffic besides me. The enclosure is elevated due to drainage, so the top of it is about 7 - 8 feet off the ground.
Location - Northwestern NJ
On Oct 23rd I weighed the chameleon and the weight was 151 grams. He's 7 inches snout to vent. Today I weighed him and he was 175 grams. Is this too much of a weight gain in 2 weeks? He eats like a horse, but I didn't know if it was healthy for him to gain 24 grams in 2 weeks. Can this cause any health problems? I'm just trying to keep a very close eye on him because I know how touchy w/c mellers are.
