i already posted this once, so keep in mind, i JUST got him less than a week ago, so some of the things i am listing are because of his crappy previous owner... as i have learned, there are some changes that do need to be made.
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - male veiled, approx 11months...
XD i assumed the OP meant they would not feed them... well this puts me at ease a tad. i currently have him in the shower right now... i have a shower door which does not go all the way to the ceiling. he is sitting on top of it. there is very little water actually hitting him, but he is getting...
=sorry ive been posting so much lately, but i need help with this little guy=
first, he has a swolen eye which showed up the day after i got him. he has been to the reptile doc who said he has a vit A defficiency... the vit A shot he gave doesnt seem to be helping his eye much. also putting...
okay. thanks guys. ill add some fresh goodies when i go to the grocery store tomorrow. good to kno i can still use the flukers cricket food as well as the flukers cricket water gel
hrmmm. thats a toughy. cause i only have a one bedroom apartment... so theres only 2 rooms he could go in... living room and bedroom. and there is absolutely no room in my bedroom for a cage of its size... ill keep an eye on them cause, logically, its the best i can do
eeeekkk! thats why i named her miss kitty! lol ok im done haha.
btw, miss kitty LOVES her new creepy crawly friends haha shes always glued to the cage, doesnt care that theres a lizard in it, not sure shes even noticed... but boy does she love her cricket buddies! lol. she doesnt terrorize...
HHHEEEYYYYY! miss kitty is my cats name! :D
btw, yes, he is eating super worms. they look exactly like that picture. thank you :)
i will monitor the temp at night. if need be, i will turn the heater off. i keep the ceramic heater on at night, but the incadecent light is off. am i using the...
btw, where i am, yes, it really is that cold. it was raining today and my house stays very cold for some reason even with the heat on... its an old apartment complex so the heating and air conditioning are extremely inefficient. they dont work very well, so i dont use them because its just a...
awww man! i JUST went out and bought that cricket food lol... they do get apples btw, another thing i forgot to add lol theres so much info to add i forget things lol the superworms live in a tub of oatmeal with a piece of apple to get moisture. and the crickets have a piece of apple if they...
how should i properly gut load them? the previous owner was feeding baby cereal and wet cotton balls. should i switch back to that or something entirely different? how do you guys gut load?
.... i feel bad :( im glad i came here to learn what things i can do better
eek... im kinda scared now :(
when i say he drinks every 4 days... i mean he will literally drink from the spray bottle every 4 days... i do mist really well twice a day until the leaves drip.
i dont really know if they are meal worms or super worms that im feeding since im new to reptiles...
hope this helps, let me kno if im doing anything wrong
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - male veiled, approx 11months, got him about 4 days ago
Handling - handle for short periods every day
Feeding - crickets gutloaded with cricket food and given water gel with calcium. meal worms gut...
well, he went to the vet, the vet seems to think he has a vitamin A defficiency i guess his last owners werent doing something right... so how do i get more vitamin A in him? he was givin a vit A shot and needs to be seen in a week for another. can anyone suggest any good foods for a vit A...
my new veiled had a swolen eye, and somewhat a decreased appetite. so i took him to the vet and he said he may have a vitamin A defficiency. the doc gave him a vit A shot and said to come back in a week for another one...
so my question is: what can i feed him that will be better than what...
keep in mind i just got my cham 2 days ago so im still experimenting with cage set up....
i have a 5'x3'x2' screen enclosure with a 150watt ceramic heat emitter (the ones with no light) that stays on all the time. i have 2 full spectrum strip lights (4' each) on each side of the cage and one...
i like the name "hippie" cause of all the colors :D i almost named my veiled that before i came up with the name picasso.... o, or wut about "congo", after the jungle? if you want a more serious, exotic name that is. ummmm.... "woodstock"? (again because of the colors, if ur into old school...
to PSSH---- i found him in citrus heights close to sacramento, ca.... i live about 45 min from there. is that the one you saw on craigslist??? if it is how cool... and ironic :D
ive been wanting a cham for practically my whole life... never could get one though because when i was living at...
hello, this is my first post, unfortunately, its not a good one :( i just bought "picasso" 2 days ago from a lady on craigslist. he is 20" long and roughly 11 months old she says. his cage is 5'x3'x2' with vines and potted plants. his eye was perfectly fine when i bought him, but yesterday, it...