12 week old female veiled chameleon advice needed

[The Lizard King]

As stated I have a 12 week old female veiled chameleon and need a bit of advice.

she moves very very slow, is this normal?

when she is at the front of the viv where I have dark vines she is a darker colour than usual.

She seems very nervous with people around and goes very dark quickly, is this normal?

I have her in a 3ft wide 2ft high exo terra glass viv for now I am getting a reptibreeze screen viv when she gets bigger. I keep the temp in basking spot at around 83, the other end of viv is around 79-80, I keep humidity at around 40 - 60 by misting twice a day and I have a fogger on a timer to come on every 2 hours for half an hour, is this ok?

I have a dripper coming for the viv, but is delayed due to post, but i have been spraying the viv but have not seen her drink so I have been giving her water from a pipette.

For uv light I have a 30 inch reptiglo 10.0, this is what I was told to use, is this right?

I have real plants. The plants I use I got after reading a safe list of plants for veiled chameleons.

Can I handle her at this age?

I feed her 8 small crickets and 4 small locust a day, how often should I dust with calcium and is nutrobal safe to use?

Do I need to put in a sand box for egg laying yet?

Is there anything I have missed and should know?

Thanks

Scott

 

[mattcast1214]

I don't know too much about veileds but 79-80 degrees for the rest of your enclosure sounds pretty high for the chameleon to just chill, considering the bask temp is at 83, and also most people say the 5.0 UVB light is best, 10 is too much. I also use a fogger because my jacksons like a little bit higher humidity, but goodluck n I'm sure other members will have more input

 

[DavidBuchan]

All sounds normal to me - the ambient temp is a bit too high, have the cooler bit at 70 during the day. nutrobal is ok for daily dusting, you need one with more d3 for twice a month. a mulitvitamin twice a month alternate weeks. You can handle gently a bit. If it's at a routine time each day this will help. If she doesn't become better with handling then you'll just have to accept it and handle her only when you need to. You might as well put the laying box in now.