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If you are able to reduce your humidity, that would be much better. High humidity plus high heat greatly increases the risks for and can cause respiratory infections. How are you measuring humidity - with a digital or analog gauge? Digital with a wire probe end is better, both for measuring...

She will be upside down crawling around but right now she is literally just chilling on that top bamboo stick that I have to hold that ladder thing. Surely being under the UVB bulb like that isn’t good? I spent months setting up her enclosure and measured how far to have the stick from the UVB...

Looks like a burn. Test your basking light. Put your hand inside the cage as close to the light as possible…palm down away from the light, if you want to move your hand, (don’t be a hero), then it’s too hot for your chameleon to be sitting there. A silver sulfadiazine cream will help it heal...

Thank you for your input! The bulb is actually a reptisun 5HO The basking branch is 9” behind the bulb it self. I’m not running a fogger as of yet. Sorry pic was deceiving as I’m just trying out my humidifier as a fogger. I have watched most all of Bill strands videos in prep for this...

Hi and welcome! No judgement here…we all start at the beginning. 🙂 I am going to guess that you have the ReptiBreeze chameleon kit…yes? To be the bearer of bad news, there is little that is actually useful for a chameleon in that kit and far too many people are tricked into buying it. Besides...

Hi there, @JacksJill may be able to give you more information on if she's pregnant. But if you say she was in the same enclosure with males, it's safe to assume she's mated. She looks a bit plump to me. About the gaping, it's likely the temperature. You need a temperature/hydrometer with...

No worries hun. You do not need to share your personal details or how you buy stuff. Get a zoomed temp gauge with a probe. the probe gets hooked in at the basking branch directly below the heat fixture. You can use a small zip tie to secure it to the branch. Then pull the gauge outside of the...

Bought him more branches and 2 live plants. I got him a 75 watt light bulb so he could have a warmer basking spot but I will be moving his highest branch down a bit so he won’t get burned. I decided this because the house had been very cold lately and we don’t run the heater super often. I’ll...

Thanks for the reply! I did a lot of research and was pretty positive they were burns but I needed someone more experienced than me to confirm.. I did have him under a mini halogen bulb initially and I think it was spotlighting onto those spots when he would bask.. so I bought him a normal sized...

Yeah, honestly they would be better off not selling reptiles, chams, hamsters, and other animals. They just treat them so horribly that it would be better if they just didn’t sell them. It’s so stressful for the animals and they sometimes get sick too. Not to mention with animals like...

I do see a little spur, so I believe you do have a cute little boy. 🤗 I do see some needed changes in his enclosure. The first is to move the uvb light to above his basking branch. It does have a relatively narrow band where it’s at peak levels and then drops off very quickly. Provided your uvb...

It very well could be something else. But the dark discoloration around the edges you see with thermal burns. And the position being on the side goes along with basking and leaning. Very common position with younger chams.

Hi! 🙂 So glad your little green honey has started digging. Your husbandry looks quite good. I’ll go thru it just to be nit-picky, but you’re doing fine. Btw, I’m no where near a master of anything - I just listen well to those with experience, consolidated their knowledge and guidance and wrote...

Something to add on and to check. His uvb is 20cm from the end of his back (10 cm above the enclosure and 10cm inside, down to his back) And we put the heat lamp about the same cm to make his temp perfect at the basking spot.

First, let’s look at the spot. Which one do you mean - the one I circled in yellow is just a normal part of his coloring. The one I circled in red looks suspiciously like a burn. I can’t see your basking light, but it does look like he’s awfully close to the top of his enclosure. Hold your hand...

One of the problems with focused beam heat emitting devices is that your cham will end up staying right under it much or most of the time if the rest of the cage is too cold. When it attempts to leave that beam, it will get chilled. Maybe too chilled to maintain itself. We know one of the ways...

Good plan. Very nice design idea. Lighting should be on the outside not inside the cage. You want aluminum window screen for the top so your UVB penetrates without a further reduction in levels. I think you might have a little overkill with your basking fixtures. I personally do not like ceramic...

Thank you! 😊 I'll look into the things you said were worth improving! Also I'll say when she's done laying and eating again

Cage Info: Cage Type - Screen cage that I put plastic wrap around the sides to help with humidity because its winter. I am hoping that you have left the door, or at least the lower section of at least one screen panel without plastic for proper ventilation. I have a 16x16x30, it was what I had...

Thank you so much for replying so fast! I measure her set up with a thermometer from the Biodude but the battery died last week (probably from being a few years old) but it said it was around 90° F when I last read it that’s why I used the wrist trick in the meantime. Batteries are on the way...