Not giving up.
"She" is not giving up. I had been force feeding him for over a month, showering him twice a week, offering every type of feeder I could think of, but becoming more and more convinced that he was dying.
Imagine my shock when he actually ate 2 jumbo silkies ! And ate another...
Put Him On A Scale !!???
ARE YOU NUTS ?
Butter would stand on a scale about as easily as trying to weigh a full size horse on your bathroom scale.
Butter hates everything. Except his cage, and his plants and his own"space".
I do "everything" right -- or as right as I know how. I...
That's NORMAL ??!!
Darned Lizard has been making me insane !!!! I was sure he was dying, and now there he is giving me his "I'm happy, because I hate you and everyone else in the universe" happy look.
I"m just so glad he decided to eat again. What I don't get, is how he managed to stay...
For the last month, Butter has been on a food strike. I don't know how he still is alive, but I managed every couple days to stuff worms or something in his mouth.
a week ago, I gave up. I decided that I would put food in the cage, give him water and appropriate lighting and heat, and if...
Thanks for asking. He is about the same. I fed him two big silkies last night. He acts like he is being tortured, but chews and swallows his wormies. I'm soaking the plants more with each misting -- and saw him sip from where the dripper is going....
I have his basking lamp on a reiostat (you know a switch that you can change the intensity) and I keep the lamp on whatever I need to keep his basking spot at around the 90 point.
I keep his branches a good 8-10" from the top, and he is not one to cling to the roof.
Yes, it is uvb 5.0...
Cage Info:
Cage Type - What kind of cage are you using? What is the size?
Screen cage 48x36x36
Lighting -
Sunglo florescent tube 5.0; heating/basking light 250 watt
Temperature - What temperature range have you created? Basking spot
temp at basking is about 90
temp? What is the...
A (rescue) Great Dane about 9 years old (we are a registered therapy team)
Dalmatian 12 years old
Mini holland lop bunny
Africian Grey Parrot (also a rescue)
Veiled Chameleon
Butter still hasn't used his tounge to zap anything. I'm still hand feeding him silkies - by picking him up, which pisses him off, he opens his mouth, and I pop a wormie half way in his mouth, which he eats.
How long should I keep this up ?
His tounge isn't hanging out or anything, his...
"Dipped in Butter" is my male veiled. I've had him since July, and he was only a couple inches long head to tail when I got him....he has been the picture of health, until Thursday...
Thursday morning I went downstairs to turn on his lights and do get him fed, sprayed, and his drip set up...
I can't think of a reason not to put it in there.
I don't use pesticides during the growing season, as I like to grow my veggies and fruit as organic as possible. So I let the dandelions grow in the garden, and pick them for the cham, and for the bunny. I just rinse and serve.
I take Butter out of his cage now a couple times a week to take him outside to his outdoor condo. I think if I gave him the opportunity to bite me, he would. I catch him by picking him up gently, and then firmly holding his little head so he cant turn and bite. I let him dig his little toes...
I keep mine in my livingroom. His cage is in a corner, and has some plants around it, so he is not right in the middle of the room, or where people walk by all the time. Mine is caged, so I don't know about free rangeing.
At what temperature do you put your cham outside to sun in the natural light ?
I have a veiled male, and I have one of those pop up hanging enclousures for outside. It's beautiful out, but only about 70 F ambient. In the sun, it feels warmer. Is that warm enough for him, or should I wait...