Hampton
New Member
I am new to the forum and a new chameleon owner and am not fully acquainted with their behavior so this might be silly or just me being paranoid. Hampton is a 3 and a half month old ambanja panther chameleon. I have only had him since Sunday, he has a screen cage with a repti sun 5.0 and a 60 watt basking bulb and 2 live plants in his cage a schefflerra arboricola and a golden pothos. The schefflerra was just added to his cage today. I have been spraying his cage 3 times daily and have his cage on a side table near my desk in a low traffic area. I have been avoiding holding him to hopefully allow him to get familiar with his new home but have been feeding him 3-4 crickets daily using calcium dust at every other feeding and calcium with vitamin d once a week he also has a dripper in his cage for water. whew that was a lot of info but if you guys are still with me my question is today I have noticed him starting to itch his left eye excessively using his hind legs and rubbing it up on his plants and his dripper and branches is this something I need to be concerned about could it be stress or the new plant maybe I thought that I bought one that wasnt toxic? and i replaced the soil with one without fertilizer or plant food and added rocks. Other then the apparent itch he has been keeping his eye open and it doesnt appear injured and he seems to have full function. I am very nervous about this issue because he is my first chameleon and I really dont want to do anything wrong that could hurt him any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated or about anything else I mentioned that might be wrong would also be helpful. Thanks in advance to everyone.
. You must have picked-up you Panther at the NARBC show. You probably bumped into half of the "South Bay Chameleon Keepers" (SBCK) group while wandering around the show.
