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I would advise you to provide live plants that are non toxic and well washed both sides of the leaves. So you are not using a vitamin powder with a prEformed source of vitamin A twice a month? They need vitamin A for their eyes. You need a wider variety of insects for your chameleon…crickets...

As I’ve already asked… What is the plant in the cage? Is it live? What form of vitamin A is in the vitamins? What are you feeding the insects? Are you using vitamins at all? What are you feeding the bugs with? Also… Does she drink from a dropper or drink in front of you from a mister?

What do you feed the insects?

Welcome to the forum and the world of chameleons! As has already been mentioned, the glass cage outside would be like a greenhouse…the temperatures are going to get too high and with the lack of plants it will mean she cannot get out of the sun if the sun hits the cage at any time during the...

“These findings indicate that colour variation in panther chameleons involves different genetic and physiological pathways. For example, while melanins, pteridines and structural colours are produced in the skin itself, carotenoids are obtained from the animal's diet (Fox 1976). Therefore...

Sorry…at the moment I can’t be sure. I’m no expert on genetics sadly. It’s never been my strong point.

“although our species did exhibit UV coloration, neither this coloration nor its changes seem to be involved in intrasexual agonistic interactions among males, possibly because those signals may be used for other purposes like attracting mates, repelling predators, or deception.”…...

Here’s the link… https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/how-to-ask-for-help.66/

Beautiful chameleon and great “setting” for a cage! Good that you’re back too!

Thought some of you might like this… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226739323309...

Although it’s sad in someways to have to eradicate an animal…sometimes it’s the only option… “In 2012, after a final search and outreach to the community, the agencies involved in the effort agreed: veiled chameleons had been eradicated from all known locations on Maui. Addressing the threat...

Not surprising…but interesting…birds are chameleon predators… https://www.chameleons.info/en/birds-chameleon-predators/ One more site.. https://www.chameleons.info/en/chameleon-predators-and-enemies/

For what it’s worth… “However, to date, chameleons have not been documented among its prey. Here, we report the first confirmed case of B. bubo preying on an African chameleon (Chamaeleo africanus) in the western Peloponnese of southern Greece—a region where the two species occur in limited...

Welcome to the forum and the world of chameleons. Photos please…of your chameleon and the whole cage including the lights on top of the cage.

Hope your chameleon does well in its new cage!

Regarding MBD…often you will think everything is going well, and then suddenly one day, it shows up as bent/curved/broken arms or no trunkal lifting, etc ..and then you can correct the imbalance that caused the MBD but your lizard is left with the damage that was already done…so prevention is...

I see your son has only posted a couple of times…so I’m welcoming him and you to the forum! This is a great place to learn…and we are a friendly group. Many of us have kept chameleons and other reptiles for years and we understand how things can go bad for first time owners with all the bad...

“Veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) has emerged as a tractable research organism for the study of squamate early development and evolution.”… https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.03.611012v1.full.pdf

The road is reopened after being closed in early march… https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/03/12/burlington-shuts-down-road-to-protect-salamander-crossing/

One more site… http://falcon.hamiltonnature.org/