chams wont drink water from a bowl like most animals. they need moving dripping water. or droplets on leaves/glass/screen. do you have a mister? fill it with hot water so itll mist somewhat warmish and mist somthing i described and see if it will drink. if it looks all boney/diformed use the...
would you be able to run to a petstore? if so get a bag of crickets for like $2 and a bottle of zilla calcium supplement spray. give three drops of zilla supplement orally.
do u have a lamp of somekind that u can put over the box to give it light and heat? it needs heat asap. just need a regular housebulb for warmth. try to get it like 8 or so inches above wherever its perched.
poke around through this blog:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/74-feeders.html
sandrachameleon has alot of top notch blogs about husbandry do's and dont's, i read alot of her stuff.
painted ladies are like a once a week thing. depending on the size of the feeder i...
Get your breeder feeders now (lol). figure out how u want to breed them, get that goin. then do all the research for your cham. by time you do all the proper research and are too the point youd actually feel comfortable and all knowing and get your cham you should have a decent amount of feeders...
IMO breed your feeders
I keep dubias, crickets, mealworms and supers for 1 cham/3 leopard geckos.
youll never run out/you know what they been feeding on.
at petco its $1.75 for 15 crickets. i have prolly around 1000 and all together it cost me like $5 for the bin and the $1.75 for the...
means he could use alittle more water. The orange is supposed to be white. when its orange means not hydrated enough. when white means hes good and hydrated. make sure you have a dripper and mist several times during the day especially if u dont have a propper dripper.
you dont need that night bulb. they need/like it to get down in temps during the night. 70's is perfectly acceptable. id get that thermometer ASAP. youd be suprised. depending on how close u have that lamp you could be in the high 90's low 100's and thats not good.