Swyft Adventures

After a long battle with repeated food strikes, despite what I offered him, how often I offered food, how many food cups I left around, Swyft has given up. I wont be getting anymore chameleons, I apparently don't have what it takes to care for them. Swyft, your constant request to climb on...

Swyft is still being a brat about eating but he does eat. Just one superworm here and there. For awhile I am pretty sure he was eating gnats and flies that were in the room. (I have a natural turtle habitat and we tend to get bugs from that) He drinks a lot, poops, and is active, and still...

Swyft is still hanging in there and finished a shedding. I now have a larger feeding dish for him at the base of his tree/shelf and he seems to be liking that. He watches down at the bugs then climbs down the pole covered with fake-vines to check out what I put in there. My digital...

Swyft turned grey, extremely skinny, looked like he was going to die. I finally offered superworms and he has been eating those heartily ever since. I'd rather feed him superworms than have him die, obviously. I had tried all sizes of dubias and offered a different type of roach "death...

Cleaned out the room today and rearranged a bit. I bought a space-heater for the room as last year I kept the entire house extra warm and it cost me a lot. I was able to arrange things in such a way that I don't believe he can get off his tree to the floor finally. I wasn't too worried before...

Still doing a Dubia Stand-Off. I now suspect he is eating a fly or two that is in the room because there is no way he has gone this long without eating something. He looks great, color is beautiful, alert and eyed a dubia this morning but then shunned away. Whatever dude. I am misting...

Swyft still isn't eating since I stopped offering the superworms. I'm offering every other day a dusted dubia and no sign of interest. Stubborn. Other than that he looks good. Supposed to be warm all week so I have the window cracked during the day for fresh air and am misting in the...

OH MY GOODNESS!! He had found himself on a file cabinet, next to the computer that I had moved away and probably felt stuck. I walked into the room towards him and as I reached towards him he lifted up his front feet and reached FOR ME!! I was so shocked, I lowered my hand, palm down, he...

Swyft is really pretty today. He stayed in his area all day from what I can tell. I think I have him contained pretty well to his one section of the room with his tree and plants. A big thanks to SandraChameleon for the tip on dubias, I'm on a better road now for feeding him. Weather was...

Swyft shunned a dubia again today and readily, heartily ate 3 superworms with light dusting of calcium instead. In fact this is the second time in a row that he has nailed two superworms with one shot! He's either talented or greedy, not sure which. I offered the dubia, completely...

Swyft's colors are so beautiful! I think he is enjoying his new setup. Last night he slept on the curtain rod that I had relocated above the window. Today he's actively drinking, did not eat today, but his colors and activity level are really impressing me. I brought in his Hibiscus to...

I finally made a decision on Swyft's setup. I really love the distance he can go with his free-range but he simply is not returning to the tree for his humidity, uvb light, and basking area. I have "grounded him" for now. I rearranged his large wide curtain rod with biovine and fake leaves to...

Swyft was excited and well-aimed with his tongue on a dubia tonight. I offered a second one but he turned his head away. He was doing the pacing thing again on the curtain rod so I relocated him to his tree again and misted it heavily, he drank readily. I think pacing means thirsty? Why...

Swyft was pacing yesterday on the curtain rod. He knows how to get back to the tree, I've seen him do it, I don't know what his deal was. Finally, frustrated and concerned about the pacing, I grabbed my step-ladder and relocated him for the last few hours of the evening to his tree which has...

Swyft is starting to concern me. He's alert, active, and eating superworms but still wont eat a dubia. He turns his head and looks away. But if I bring out a superworm he will turn and grab it. He's still free-ranging and I'm still misting him and the plants and the fake plants, he doesn't...

Mr. Swyft is going to exercise all his weight off if he doesn't slow down and eat more. He has been shunning the dubias lately, I don't know what his deal is but he's assertively eating the superworms. The last few days we've had a storm roll in so I've been able to keep the temp down...

Swyft was wary of the rope, and rightly so. I can't seem to get it taut enough to be safe for him so I took it down for now. Maybe bf can help me on his next visit. Swyft has been free range since Friday. His lights are set up for his plant area but now he has taken to hanging out on the...

I did it! I created a full circle around the room of climbing area for Swyft. He hasn't tried all of it out yet, he's been half way around several times and just today I finished the other half but he was too tired done exploring by the time I finished so I tucked him in bed instead. He was...

So now I've learned that if Swyft was startled when I go to put him away the shock could be really bad for him. I'm trying to put him away earlier and earlier each time, watching to see when he gets "settled in" and thereby putting him back in the cage for the night. He's a tricky one. I am...

I am really struggling with planning out his feeding. I ended up with over 20 superworms and nothing else. I think some dubias escaped as I found a dubia in the superworm house, hahaha! Oops! No clue how he managed that. I finally took a calendar and just wrote crickets, superworms on...