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OMG!!!! I haven't seen a cham this bad for a long long time. Just have no words except unprintable ones. I'm sorry to be blunt OP but your male is probably dying. The pet shop that sold you those garbage supplies and garbage care information should be sued for animal cruelty/neglect. This is...

You don't want or need constant humidity. I've kept chams in very dry climates too (CO at 9000 ft elevation; house humidity hovered around 20% at best). Providing enough humidity for a cham depends on more than a fogger. It is a combination of hand spraying, enough foliage in the cages to...

You really should read the basic husbandry articles located under the forum's Resources tab above. If this is basically a glass aquarium its going to create problems for your veiled. Too humid and probably too warm from day to night. The husbandry articles will give you lots of good advice for...

Your chams won't appreciate being surrounded by fabric that can reflect a distorted image of themselves every time they move. There are much easier ways to wrap a cage...clear vinyl shower curtains or curtain liners are readily available and work great. BTW, why are you needing to prevent heat...

Just another product that may be useful in very specific circumstances but is made available to the poorly-informed buying public who are only guessing what their animal's problem might be and who won't spend the money on the appropriate vet...but expect a non-specific off the shelf product to...

Then, here's a suggestion for the wimpier pacifists among us. A big piece of shade cloth draped over one side of the cage to block the light after dark. He can retreat to that shaded area if he chooses to.

If these species exist in distinct sections of the same habitat in the wild, remember that the wild is huge. Inhabitants can distribute themselves far and wide. They can also retreat from disturbance caused by other species very easily. Your cage would force the issue. The last thing I'd want...

WHAT? It makes threads so much easier to read and people will be more willing to answer your questions if you use real words. If you haven't done so yet, please read the basic husbandry articles under the forum's Resources tab. Lots of good info there. These are basic questions...you'll get...

True. However, if you have a free range spot that a live plant just won't tolerate a fake can provide some structure and visual cover. I use live plants in their setups for all the accepted reasons but once in a while a fake comes in handy!

Probably physically impossible that you pulled out part of the intestine, so forget that. It would have needed to pull up the stomach itself, and obviously that didn't happen. You would know if it was part of the tongue. Again, probably impossible. It IS possible that a feeder your cham caught...

The most essential thing right now before your vet appointment will be water. Focus on that, not trying to force her to eat something. If you want to give her a quick energy boost mix some unflavored Pedialyte with the water. Don't do this long term, just some energy and electrolytes for the...

Plant 1 probably won't be very attractive to him as it won't be very comfortable on his feet and provides no visual cover. IMHO it doesn't add much to a cham free range visually either. Plant 2: I've used fake Ficus like this quite often, even with veileds. To help keep him from trying to eat...

OP don't worry about your options for breeding your chameleon. She probably won't stay healthy long enough to try. At the end of all this childish postering and right-fighting, that's all that really matters. Pool little thing.

I wasn't commenting on your text. I was responding to the thread in general :)

There seems to be some debate as to how much UV exposure they require. Obviously they are understory residents so little direct sunlight penetrates down that far. The couple of articles I've read suggest at least a ReptiSun 2.0 on the usual 12 hour on/12 hour off schedule. Better to provide it...

Hopefully your research included the pygmy caresheet posted under this forum's Resources tab. Probably about the best husbandry info available for these little guys. IMHO if I was keeping my first ones I'd be conservative...and provide more space per individual rather than less. At least have...

So much depends on how well YOU know your particular chams, how well YOU understand cham behaviors, and also how quickly YOU can detect any signs of stress and failure to thrive. It would be downright irresponsible for a less experienced cham keeper to attempt this. But it never fails...people...

Once in a while an exception crops up between two species but DO NOT count on it!!! I kept a wc male T. deremensis and a wc male B. fischeri in a huge divided cage once. I would have free ranged them but needed the cage to provide the higher humidity the room never would. Started noticing the...

I doubt this is anatomically possible OP. Water isn't going to just sit there. It would either go down the esophagus and be no problem or down the trachea into the lungs. He'd be in serious distress if that were the case.

How many pygmies would live in this? IMHO it isn't large enough for more than 1 and that is pushing it. The shape of the space is a lot of the problem...much of it isn't really "available" for perching or moving around in response to temperature, humidity, misting, or hunting food. A...