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What kind of chameleon is that?

One and a half year old male ambanja.

I run my ac all summer long and the ambient temps in my cages stay at between 72-75. It helps to get a higher watt basking bulb and suspend your basking light fixture 5 or 6 inches above the cage. This keeps the basking spot at the right temps AND helps heat the air in the cage instead of just...

Superworms are a great feeder too. They are very easy to gutload and have a better shell to meat ratio than mealworms. I feed my supers the same diet as my crickets and they eat it up. I have only seen undigested superworms in one of my cham's poop and he was ill at the time. They are easy...

Thick, clean gardening gloves help a lot. That way even if he does get ahold of you, he won't hurt you. With my big male veileds, I have to wear gloves just becuase their grip is so strong that it hurts! I also use the two hand method to get them out.. distract them with one and while...

I did suggest a calcium deficiency.. on the second page. Really.. all anyone can do is guess what is wrong with this cham. And suggest a vet visit. And oil is commonly to treat impactions and blockages in animals and reptiles. They don't digest it like humans do and it can sometimes help...

Maybe he just now noticed his reflection :) Does your UVB bulb have a metal reflector behind it? Is your basking light in a silver metal dome?

I think that everything sounds pretty good except for using dog and/or cat food to gutload with. Dog food is high in fat and can actually carry bacteria that is harmful to a chameleon. Cat food is the same AND it includes preformed vitamin A which can build up in a chameleon's system. Leaving...

Even a vet who is not "super smart" can run a fecal check, do blood work, prescribe meds, xray, give calcium injections, etc. But even that being said, I wasn't criticizing you for not taking your cham to the vet. It is your chameleon. Approach the situation how you may. All I was saying...

If you think your cham has an impaction.. and you aren't going to take it to the vet.. then why not try the oil? I am not saying it is the best remedy.. but neither is avoiding the vet and your cham dying. Make sure that it is only one drop and that it is in the very back of the throat...

I work second shift and definitely like to view my chams so they are on my scheudle.. lights on at 1pm and off at 2am. My apartment is heavily draped since I sleep all day so the light from the windows doesn't disturb their (or my!) sleep schedule. They definitely know when the lights are...

Has she pooped at all? Even just getting repti-aid and water in her, she should still be pooping. Again, a vet trip is your only bet but aside from that, if she isn't pooping and an impaction is suspected, try a drop or two of olive oil. Then give her a few moments and massage her belly to...

i have fed mayflies to my chams too.. they love them.. and it is cute to try to watch them follow their bouncy flight with their eyes ;)

yep.. Tygerr is correct.. I have used these in veiled cages a few times when they were younger until one day i saw one of my male veileds who was about 5 months at the time choking on the plant.. he was trying to take a bite out of it and couldn't bite the piece off and had half of one of the...

This is pretty common.. but can also be an impaction risk. If I were you I would try to cover the soil in the plant with some large rocks (baked and cooled to remove any mites or parasites).

Can you post a picture of your female? And what was the reason that the male passed? I know that you said he was small but you never gave the actual cause of death (unless I just missed it). You say that you don't dust your chameleon's feeders any longer, just give the supplements for your...

haha.. i edited that for you jboysen.. typo ;)

Not to be totally off topic, but I hate when I read that if you don't plan on breeding your female chameleons, then you shouldn't own them as pets. I love my females. They have great personalities. If I bred my females everytime that they were receptive, I would be over run with chameleons...

Well, you already posted this in another thread, so why start a whole new one? Not a lot of people have ankaramy panthers yet. They are just now starting to be commonly hatched out in captivity and are expensive compared to some other locales. Go to the gallery and search ankaramy. Or do...

Do you see him drink when you mist him? Does he have a dripper? Only one misting a day is really not enough. It takes a chameleon several minutes of misting to start to drink and they often don't get their fill of water in just one session. How long are you misting for? Do you mist your...