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As disappointing as it might be - sometimes (especially with male Veileds) they are just never people lizards. Ziggy, my adult male Veiled is exactly like this - he is absolutely fine with all aspects of being around me - he doesn't run and hide when he sees me and will tolerate my...

Your supplementation schedule should be:- Plain, Phosphorous free calcium at every feeding Once every month dusting with D3 Once every month, dusting with a broad spectrum multi-vitamin and mineral powder. Your chameleon may be shutting his eye as a result of a vitamin A deficiency, but to be...

My husbandry routine is brushing OCD - I spend at least an hour a day keeping both my chameleon enclosures clean, I am bordering on obsessive. But I can tell you now.... if you seriously think that you can keep sheets of fake grass clean of stagnant water, poop, and dead insects every day and...

You should have a laying bin in the enclosure. She looks gravid to me and females can lay infertile eggs without being mated, so it would be a good idea to get a bin in there asap. Unless you have been drastically over feeding her, then her plumpness is due to eggs. If you don't want to...

She looks gravid to me.... Do you have a laying bin in your enclosure??

Great stuff! Thought he might, even if he managed to snag it, they can tell immediately that it isn't something they want to swallow. Blimey - I have seen my Panther spit out crickets before now, because he obviously didn't like what I had gutloaded them with..... fussy devil!!!!

Guys, I seriously don't recommend the stuff. It looks lovely like it does when you first put it down in the photo above, but believe me, within a couple of weeks it is filthy and stinking, despite you doing everything that you can to keep it clean.

You don't really want to be going any higher than 90 for a veiled your age for a basking temp.... instead of changing the bulb, lower the tallest branch where he can bask so that he can't get any closer to the light. I live in the UK and it is COLD here at the moment. I have an XL reptibreeze...

Hi, I have a Veiled and a Panther as well and no, the info that you have received is not correct. You need to be dusting your feeders with plain, phosphorous free calcium at every feeding, and with D3 once a month and then a broad spectrum vitamin and mineral supplement again, once a month...

The OP could line the insides of the cage with fine mesh, which would avoid the problem but I agree with you - bars are a bad idea.

how big is your enclosure please?

If its astroturf - my opinion is get rid of it. I tried using it for about 4 months when I took the substrate out of my chams cage and I thought the fake grass would be nice. However, it is impossible to keep clean and water free, the stagnant water builds up in it no matter how often you...

I think its pretty unlikely to be honest... even if he ended up with it in his mouth by mistake, he would probably have realised that it wasn't something edible and spat it out. However, keep a close eye on him, particularly with poop monitoring.... if you normally see poop regularly and then...

Welcome to the forum. A few things about your husbandry first. Your temps - you cannot let a chameleon decide which temperature is best - they have no idea. You need to be regulating and controlling the temperatures in your cage yourself, making sure that the basking spot is between the...

Absolutely superb post Carlton, and what I was trying to say in mine, but with some other great factors added.

Sounds good! If you need any further advice, this is definitely the best place.

Hi there, welcome to the forum. Can you post a picture of your setup please? Also, you need to vary the feeders that you are giving, he should be getting between 3 to 4 different varieties. Others that are good are crickets, dubia roaches, locust, superworms, hornworms, phoenix worms...

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Please don't worry - I panicked like you wouldn't believe a few weeks ago because of this. I have an adult male Veiled, whose mouth is pink and when my young Panther yawned one morning and I saw his mouth was yellow, I thought that he had mouth rot. However a lot of Panthers have yellow...

If you're going to buy one, I suggest you do go for that, otherwise you may find yourself having to buy a larger cage once your chameleon reaches maturity. If you are considering getting a very young chameleon - one that is under 6 months old, then a very large cage can actually be too large...