Looking MASSIVE in her full-sized DIY.com enclosure with a custom TARDIS background. Probably still has parasites but getting a fecal test is complicated and the coccidia is gone, which is the main thing, and x-ray has confirmed eggs so she needs room for a lay bin. (Spoiler she didn't lay)
09/08/23
One year together! I kept this thing alive for a whole year with zero experience and lots of late nights researching/ordering/stressing, and reproductive issues aside she's doing okay!
(I am NEVER getting a female cham ever again the infertile egg thing is 80% of the stress)
10/21/23
Surprisingly high def picture that I took without being able to see my screen. She was unhappy because she'd been put in a smaller enclosure for the extent of her coccidia treatment and because my phone was in her house. Felt bad I stressed her out but what a shot!
05/11/23
Photoshoot/sun time continued. Mom wanted a shot of the real cham on the cham leggings she found me. I promise Circuit went right home and got a treat bug right after this!
06/24/23
Still undergoing the intense coccidia treatment, I felt so bad for how small her quarantine cage was, but this size was all I was able to handle fully cleaning every few days as fully as coccidia sterilization required. She did surprisingly okay in it though.
06/30/23
Vet recommended 7 hours a week of direct sunlight in hopes of helping her absorb calcium better. She was probably dark because she was soaking up heat, but I worried she was stressed. She liked the view from the balcony though, I think.
07/07/23
Receptive again, second period since I found her, no eggs yet :/. She acts insane when she gets receptive, no matter how nice her enclosure is. The vet previously told me to feed every day because of low weight/parasites but at this 2nd receptive period in 3 months, I switched to 3x a week.
01/18/23
Receptive and begging to be let out, so I felt bad for her and opened the door while keeping an eye on her. Recovering from her casque burn with silverite cream I applied. More desperate to find a guy chameleon than a white woman about to hit menopause.
01/22/23
Part 1 of 2.
I accidentally surprised her when she was being receptive on the bottom of her cage (no interest in her lay bin, just looking for a way out) and she put on her angry scared colors for a split second.
01/30/23
Part 2 of 2.
Literally 30 seconds after the last picture when she realized the person who surprised her was just Me. Meant a lot to me that she immediately calmed down and started begging for food when she realized who I was.
Another vet trip because she wasn't passing eggs and was on her third receptive period since October. Shedding and irritated at being forced onto the scale.
04/03/23
Receptive and hungry, she ran up my arm when I was trying to spray her enclosure before I left for class, clung onto my jacket even though I was late. This was 30 seconds before she tried to eat my eyeball on camera, I fed her even though it wasn't food day.
02/09/23
Out of order, this is back soon after we found her. We'd posted on Nextdoor and several other local pages looking for her owner, asked around in public, but still no response. I was unfortunately falling in love with her at this point.
10/16/22 or 10/19/22
Out of order again, pre-reptibreeze getting delivered. "Let me out I want to find a boyfriend!" She was very curious and rarely hid even when I put lots of leaves and plants in her tiny enclosure for her to hide in.
10/23/22
Out of order, back on the day I opened her glass enclosure door for air/bonding. Scaling down the laundry basket! Gotta find that male chameleon that's surely out there.
10/23/22
On her way to one of her first vet appointments of many. (Pretty sure this isn't her first one but it's the earliest I have a record of it via photo.)
12/17/22
The period I was most anxious about her. She started the new year by climbing the screen in her receptive period and burnt the top of her casque off permanently. I felt and still feel terrible. I was also concerned about impaction so gave some unseasoned canned pumpkin to get things moving.
01/02/23