Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Sunburst Veiled Chameleon, Male, Approximately 7 months old. In my care for 4 months.
Handling - We just now started to do some handling to put him in the window or venture outside(while holding since we live in an apartment) but this is maybe once or twice a week for the past 3 weeks.
Feeding - Feeding- Crickets, Meal worms, wax worms, Small supers Picked up some butter worms today to try out. He gets a good variety. About 10 small crickets a day (in the morning) and about 6-8 small worms (in the afternoon) Crickets and worms are normally fed veggies/Romain mix with calcium fortified gut load water cubes. Worms normally get potato, but usually bought in small amount fed the same day or over a few days.
Supplements - Rep-cal with vit. D3 or repti calcium without d3 about every 3 days. rep-cal Herptivite multivitamins about once a month(per local pet shops suggestion)
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? Garden spray bottle. How often and how long to you mist? About 3-4 times a day for around 30 seconds. (we have a repti-fogger but have never used it for the chameleon) There is also a Big Dripper setup for the cage. Do you see your chameleon drinking? Sometimes when I sit in watch.
Fecal Description - Brown with varying size pretty much every day and some white with a little orange ish color on the ends. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? No
History - He was purchased from a seller at a Repticon show...In which a friend of mine bought a chameleon as well from supposedly the same clutch that was much smaller than the one i picked (i tried to look for a healthy one) hers did not make it. Also our local petshop bought two females that don't seem to be growing much. Mine however is doing okay I think? I would like to think I am doing a good job with him. Since he is my first.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage the Extra large 2X2X4 (don't know if this is too big for him now but he started in a small and seemed to be too big for it)
Lighting - Repti-Glo 5.0 Fluorescent Lamp as well as a Zoo Med basking spot lamp 75 Watt. His lights are on a timer with a 12 on, 12 off schedule.
Temperature - His normal temp is around 70-80 and his basking area is normally 85-95. At night it gets to around 60-75.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? Normally in the area of 70. How are you creating and maintaining these levels? multiple mistings as well as a live dracaena plant in the bottom of the cage What do you use to measure humidity? Temperature/ humidity gauge in the cage.
Plants - small dracaena, no soil it is growing rocks. I plan on replanting to help it grow bigger since his cage now has plenty of space.
Placement - Against the wall in the living room, not really near any vents or fans, but is kind of high traffic because the kitchen/living room is open. The top of the cage is around 6 feet from the ground.
Location - Atl, Georgia. And georgia can have all 4 seasons in one day, so we could have the heat on one hour and the ac the next. We try to keep the apartment around 75 degrees.
Current Problem - Overall he seems fine, but he stays on the dark side all day. He is a very lovely green mix with some blues and yellow while he sleeps but he is dark all day. In his small cage he was always green unless it was misting time or someones hand was in the cage. He was also right under a ceiling fan in the small cage on my makeup table(by a window) and he didn't seem to mind. We also have 3 sides of his cage covered with some dark brown wood cabinet looking graphics paper. We are going to move his cage near the back door in a less trafficy area somewhat near the ceiling fan again. We would move him back by the window but we are afraid it will be too cold over there since it is a corner with two windows.
Also in his enclosure he has chain-link vines which are stabled somewhat with dowel rods in them, but sometimes when he crawls on them they turn. I'm also afraid that his climbing stuff(also made with dowel rods) may be too small though they are varying thickness to exercise his hands/feet. He has also started to wonder around the cage on the screen, which is kind of weird since I haven't really seen him do this much. I think maybe he is trying to get closer to his basking light since he climbs the walls in that area a lot now I am just wondering if we should add a heat lamp to keep on all night/day.
Your Chameleon - Sunburst Veiled Chameleon, Male, Approximately 7 months old. In my care for 4 months.
Handling - We just now started to do some handling to put him in the window or venture outside(while holding since we live in an apartment) but this is maybe once or twice a week for the past 3 weeks.
Feeding - Feeding- Crickets, Meal worms, wax worms, Small supers Picked up some butter worms today to try out. He gets a good variety. About 10 small crickets a day (in the morning) and about 6-8 small worms (in the afternoon) Crickets and worms are normally fed veggies/Romain mix with calcium fortified gut load water cubes. Worms normally get potato, but usually bought in small amount fed the same day or over a few days.
Supplements - Rep-cal with vit. D3 or repti calcium without d3 about every 3 days. rep-cal Herptivite multivitamins about once a month(per local pet shops suggestion)
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? Garden spray bottle. How often and how long to you mist? About 3-4 times a day for around 30 seconds. (we have a repti-fogger but have never used it for the chameleon) There is also a Big Dripper setup for the cage. Do you see your chameleon drinking? Sometimes when I sit in watch.
Fecal Description - Brown with varying size pretty much every day and some white with a little orange ish color on the ends. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? No
History - He was purchased from a seller at a Repticon show...In which a friend of mine bought a chameleon as well from supposedly the same clutch that was much smaller than the one i picked (i tried to look for a healthy one) hers did not make it. Also our local petshop bought two females that don't seem to be growing much. Mine however is doing okay I think? I would like to think I am doing a good job with him. Since he is my first.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage the Extra large 2X2X4 (don't know if this is too big for him now but he started in a small and seemed to be too big for it)
Lighting - Repti-Glo 5.0 Fluorescent Lamp as well as a Zoo Med basking spot lamp 75 Watt. His lights are on a timer with a 12 on, 12 off schedule.
Temperature - His normal temp is around 70-80 and his basking area is normally 85-95. At night it gets to around 60-75.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? Normally in the area of 70. How are you creating and maintaining these levels? multiple mistings as well as a live dracaena plant in the bottom of the cage What do you use to measure humidity? Temperature/ humidity gauge in the cage.
Plants - small dracaena, no soil it is growing rocks. I plan on replanting to help it grow bigger since his cage now has plenty of space.
Placement - Against the wall in the living room, not really near any vents or fans, but is kind of high traffic because the kitchen/living room is open. The top of the cage is around 6 feet from the ground.
Location - Atl, Georgia. And georgia can have all 4 seasons in one day, so we could have the heat on one hour and the ac the next. We try to keep the apartment around 75 degrees.
Current Problem - Overall he seems fine, but he stays on the dark side all day. He is a very lovely green mix with some blues and yellow while he sleeps but he is dark all day. In his small cage he was always green unless it was misting time or someones hand was in the cage. He was also right under a ceiling fan in the small cage on my makeup table(by a window) and he didn't seem to mind. We also have 3 sides of his cage covered with some dark brown wood cabinet looking graphics paper. We are going to move his cage near the back door in a less trafficy area somewhat near the ceiling fan again. We would move him back by the window but we are afraid it will be too cold over there since it is a corner with two windows.
Also in his enclosure he has chain-link vines which are stabled somewhat with dowel rods in them, but sometimes when he crawls on them they turn. I'm also afraid that his climbing stuff(also made with dowel rods) may be too small though they are varying thickness to exercise his hands/feet. He has also started to wonder around the cage on the screen, which is kind of weird since I haven't really seen him do this much. I think maybe he is trying to get closer to his basking light since he climbs the walls in that area a lot now I am just wondering if we should add a heat lamp to keep on all night/day.
