Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - RBBB cham, around 3-4 mo old. I've had him for two weeks.
Handling - He does not like to be handled, I will handle him to move him to another plant to clean his cage
Feeding - Feeding crickets, have tried mealworms
Supplements - Repashy
Watering - Spray bottle 3-4x day. yes he drinks quite often.
Fecal Description - Black with a white tip? He does poop regularly, for not eating
History - No
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen, 18x18x20
Lighting - Regular incandescent, 40w bulb, 12hr day. Also a 5.0 Reptisun fluorescent light, the long one not the compact/bulb one.
Temperature - The 40w bulb gives off around 80 at top, around 82-83 basking. He did have a 60w bulb but that was giving near 90at top and near `100 at basking! The 40w seems to keep around 80 which I read is good for a juvenile chameleon. Our house temp is always 75.
Humidity - Humidity is always 60-70. It's humid where we are and spraying gets it up to 70.
Plants - It's live. It's chameleon safe based on this forums list, however I forgot the name!
Placement - It's probably 4 feet off the ground, in the dining room near 2 windows. Not near vents. Not very high traffic, around 4x day it has traffic.
Location - Virginia
Current Problem - When I got him from the breeder, he immediately ate 8 or so crickets. The next day he ate more crickets but since then he will eat maybe two or three every 2 days for the first week, but this week he has hardly ate anything at all. Initially I had more plants in his cage, but switched to just the one with a lot of climbing sticks because less seems to be more with juvenile chams so they can hunt. I added a feeder from the advice of people in the feeding forum b ut will still put a few free roaming crickets. He will not eat out of the feeder although he does look in it and will not eat free roaming either.
Yesterday I put him outside on a hibiscus plant I got for him. He was part sun part shade but stayed in the sun. It was around 89 outside and the second he got out there he ate a fly, then another, then one more but spit it out. So I put a worm on the plant and he ate it. I know it's not good for them to eat flies, but I put him outside thinking the sunlight would maybe make him eat when he got back in his cage? I was desperate to make him eat.
I am really at a loss as to how to get him to eat I have tried everything I can think of. The crickets are the exact size the breeder was using. He is still very active, but I don't understand why he won't eat because I've heard that chameleons eat very well especially young ones.
I do have bearded dragons that have only done this when they were young and molting, however this cham does not look to me to be molting.
Your Chameleon - RBBB cham, around 3-4 mo old. I've had him for two weeks.
Handling - He does not like to be handled, I will handle him to move him to another plant to clean his cage
Feeding - Feeding crickets, have tried mealworms
Supplements - Repashy
Watering - Spray bottle 3-4x day. yes he drinks quite often.
Fecal Description - Black with a white tip? He does poop regularly, for not eating
History - No
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen, 18x18x20
Lighting - Regular incandescent, 40w bulb, 12hr day. Also a 5.0 Reptisun fluorescent light, the long one not the compact/bulb one.
Temperature - The 40w bulb gives off around 80 at top, around 82-83 basking. He did have a 60w bulb but that was giving near 90at top and near `100 at basking! The 40w seems to keep around 80 which I read is good for a juvenile chameleon. Our house temp is always 75.
Humidity - Humidity is always 60-70. It's humid where we are and spraying gets it up to 70.
Plants - It's live. It's chameleon safe based on this forums list, however I forgot the name!
Placement - It's probably 4 feet off the ground, in the dining room near 2 windows. Not near vents. Not very high traffic, around 4x day it has traffic.
Location - Virginia
Current Problem - When I got him from the breeder, he immediately ate 8 or so crickets. The next day he ate more crickets but since then he will eat maybe two or three every 2 days for the first week, but this week he has hardly ate anything at all. Initially I had more plants in his cage, but switched to just the one with a lot of climbing sticks because less seems to be more with juvenile chams so they can hunt. I added a feeder from the advice of people in the feeding forum b ut will still put a few free roaming crickets. He will not eat out of the feeder although he does look in it and will not eat free roaming either.
Yesterday I put him outside on a hibiscus plant I got for him. He was part sun part shade but stayed in the sun. It was around 89 outside and the second he got out there he ate a fly, then another, then one more but spit it out. So I put a worm on the plant and he ate it. I know it's not good for them to eat flies, but I put him outside thinking the sunlight would maybe make him eat when he got back in his cage? I was desperate to make him eat.
I am really at a loss as to how to get him to eat I have tried everything I can think of. The crickets are the exact size the breeder was using. He is still very active, but I don't understand why he won't eat because I've heard that chameleons eat very well especially young ones.
I do have bearded dragons that have only done this when they were young and molting, however this cham does not look to me to be molting.