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Hello all. Rinoa is a female veiled chameleon, approx 2.5 years old. Just today I noticed a small lump that I had not seen previously. It's oval shaped, about a quarter inch long, and an eighth of an inch wide. It proceeds about maybe an eighth of an inch from her skin line; likely less, but I'm...

My little girl Rinoa just laid her first clutch of eggs last night. I'm sure it's taxing to dig 3x your body length and then squeeze out 33 eggs, but how tired should she be? I thought she'd be famished, so I put some extra heavily calcium dusted crickets in there and she could not be less...

I know that proper humidity levels are very important, but I'm not exactly sure why. What are the effects on cham health when humidity is too high or low?

My girl Rinoa is about a year old now; I got her as a young girl for Christmas last year. She's been doing well, and some weeks ago she put on her big girl colors: the turquoises and mustard yellows of a receptive female. Then she got a bit darker for a while. She looked a little round around...

I usually feed my girl large crickets, but on a whim last time at the petstore I bought a little tub of 25 superworms. I was wondering how to best feed her these gigantic worms. She's almost a year old veiled, and she eats very well. I mean, these worms are huge. I find myself wondering how any...

So I hand mist my girl Rinoa a couple times everyday. I try not to spray her directly, and most of the time she runs like a bat out of hell from the water, but sometimes she basks in the water droplets and just soaks them in like a kid playing in a sprinkler. Is there a "normal" reaction that...

So I just came across this post on the /r/chameleons subreddit. The poster is a mod that claims (s)he's used drinking glasses as a water source for their chams for about a decade. Has anyone here used still water successfully? I (being an admittedly novice keeper) have always read that they...

So I've got some small fly looking dudes creeping around my enclosure. They hang around the lights and seem to be reproducing. Is this something that I should be worried about? They don't seem to be doing any damage to anything, they're just annoying to me. They're also much too small to be...

I want to begin holding my veiled girl more so that she isn't so afraid of me, but she's really scared of my hand. I recently watched the videos from screameleons (sorry I can't find the link) about proper and improper handling techniques; i.e. don't come from behind, start slowly from...

So I've been making sure to feed my girl regularly: 5-6 large crickets a day, or an equivalent amount of worms in a cup (She's a 5-6 month old veiled). Lately I've noticed bite marks in the golden pothos at the bottom of her enclosure. I know that it's not harmful for them to eat veggies, but I...

Hey all, I've had my girl Rinoa since Christmas, and so from what I've been reading on these forums it's about the appropriate time to start cutting back on her food to prevent early clutches. I don't have a proper scale, so the title may be a bit misleading (sorry), but I was wondering if...

Hello all. I've asked a few questions on these forums and I'm quite happy with the feedback I've received, so here goes another one: are most chameleons naturally finicky about being handled, or can they learn to be okay with it? I've had my girl Rinoa since Christmas and I handle her very...

Hey all, I'm not sure where this should go, but the description for the forum category said watering so I'm posting it here. As the title suggests, I have a Big Dripper running at all times, but I've never seen my girl Rinoa drink from it. She stands next to it a lot of the time, though. How do...

I'm really worried about my girl hanging out too close to the heat lamp and getting a burn, so I've only been running the heat lamp while I'm home and can watch her. I live in So Cal, so it's pretty temperate all day. If she did get burned, would it heal up over time, or would the burned patch...

What does a typical molting schedule look like for these guys? I know you're supposed to separate them around second molt, so I'm wondering how long I have until that is necessary. Thanks for any help on this issue.

So I've had my little girl Rinoa since Christmas. She seems healthy and she eats everything I feed her, which tends to be 8-10 small/medium crickets a day and some phoenix worms. Is this too little? I can see her ribs when she stretches out, and that kind of worries me. I know you don't want to...

Today I purchased a nice, big golden pothos for my girl's cage. I know that you want to use non-fertilized soil for use in the cage, but how, then, do you keep the plant alive? Is liquid plant food safe for use in an enclosure? Is there a different, specific way to provide nutrients to the plant...

My girl Rinoa doesn't sit directly under her heat lamp; I have it set more toward the front/middle of the enclosure, and she's usually perched at the back. I've measured her favorite perch in the low 80s with a digital thermometer, so I'm not especially worried about burns, I'm mostly just a...

Right now I only have artificial plants and vines in my veiled chameleon's enclosure. I'm looking to put a live plant in with her, but I'm wondering a few things. How beneficial to an enclosure are live plants? What plants are best for an enclosure that receives artificial light almost...

So I'm trying to start to diversify my girl's feeding. She's a veiled chameleon, a few months old. Right now I have her eating mainly crickets, with mealworms and a few waxworms here and there. She's a little food guzzler right now, so I'm hoping that she'll readily take to whatever I give her...