- Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
- Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
- Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
- Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
- History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
- Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
- Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
- Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
- Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
- Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
- Location - Where are you geographically located?
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She’s a Veiled Chameleon, female, I’m not sure about her actual age but I’ve had her for 4 months, she was pretty small when I got her
I handle her not too often as I don’t like stressing her
I feed her waxworms, mealworms, and crickets, and the little beetles in the mealworm cups,
Easy on the meal and waxworms. These are fatty, and the meal are an especially poor cHoice, as they are not very nutritious. Try crickets, roaches, silkworms, bsfl, flies, silkworms and hornworms. Your main staples will undoubtedly be crickets and roaches, and these should be constantly fed high calcium greens such a collard greens and dandelion leaves, and to a lesser extent ingredients such as squash, carrots and sweet potato...add the occasional piece of papaya, orange or apple. crickets their food and the supplement for water that has vitamins in it
see my previous comment
I use a misting bottle, I’m working on getting an automatic mister and dripper for her, I don’t see her drinking often though
Her feces is the usual, sometimes I see a little yellow but not often, when I do I double how much I mist her tank, which is normally 4 times through out the day
Get a dripper for the daytime, and try misting just before lights on, just after lights off, and right before you go to bed.
Shes in a glass tank 18wX24L
Height?
I’m currently not sure of the actual bulb names but they are in a deep dome, I turn her lights off right before i go to sleep and wake her up at 7 when I go to school and at 8 during weekends
No compromising here: get a timer. Also, whatever lights you have in your deep dome, you won’t be getting the uvb levels she needs. Please, as soon as you can, get a linear t5 ho fluorescent uvb bulb.
I’m not sure how to check humidity but when I stick my hand it’s pretty humid, I use the misting as a way to keep it humid
Please get something to measure humidity. Daytime humidity can be lower (30-40%); nightime humidity should approach 100%.
I’m not using any live plants as of right now as I don’t know the requirements for one or the right ones for chameleons
These will really help you. Pothos and ficus are cheap and easy. These will really help with your nightime humidity
The cage is placed in my room right next to my drawer and next to my fan which I keep at the lowest mode when I’m not using it to create airflow into her tank, while I’m working on something to get her higher off the ground, the top of the tank is currently 2.5ft off the floor
I’m currently located in Florida
Your picture leads me to think she’s not doing well. Also, you don’t say anything about her supplement schedule. Here’s an easy one: get “repashy calcium plus LoD” and dust your bugs with it at every feeding. Again, I’d say this can’t wait long, same with your uvb bulb.