Any Idea of what could be wrong?

[Turbo x39]

Chameleon Info:

• Your Chameleon - Aprox. 3 Month old Male Veiled Chameleon
  
• Handling - Only when I need to fix things in the cage
  
• Feeding - about 10 small crickets in the cage every day, have offered mealworms but doesnt seem to ever be interested. Trying to convince my mom to let me get some dubias, she isnt fond of the idea of me bringing roaches in the house but i want variety in its diet. I feed all my feeders with basic veggies mostly Carrots.
  
• Supplements - calcium without d3 every day, 1 time a week with d3, 1 time a week with multivitamins
  
• Watering - mist 3-4 times a day
  
• Fecal Description - Urate is always white, feces are always a dark brown and soft but solid
  
• History - Nothing i Know of

Cage Info:

• Cage Type - 18x18x36 reptibreeze screen cage
  
• Lighting - 5.0 13 watt UVB buld and a blue 60 watt daylight bulb
  
• Temperature - typical basking area: 86 F Mid: 78 bottom:
  
• Humidity - Sits around 35-45 I try to keep it above 40
  
• Plants - Pothos, a few fake vines and hanging plants, Grapewood log
  
• Placement - Desk By my Bed, I am in my room for a good 4-6 hours a day apart from sleeping, could me being around be stressing him out?
  
• Location - Utah

Current Problem - quite skinny I can see some ribs even when not stretched out, seems to slowly keep losing weight, eats but not as much as I hear they should.

Couldn't get a good picture of him, its close to lights out so he is getting ready to sleep but i wanted to find out if there is something wrong and what i can do asap.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Veileds are shape shifters and often look very skinny when they are a normal weight.

A scale is the only way you can tell if he is gaining or losing weight. Sometimes as they grow, especially after a growth spurt, they look thinner when in fact they are larger and heavier.

 

[FancyRaptor]

At this age offer as many bugs as he is willing to eat. Make sure he doesn't get dehydrated. My chameleon who is about 1 year old will go from looking fat to all of a sudden looking like he is starved so don't worry about it. I briefly looked over your given info and I dont see anything wrong. I would just add more plant density to the middle and top of the cage. His cage is quite bare. I am not completely sure with babies but I believe that the d3 and multivitamin are every other week not weekly (I could be wrong if this is different from what adults need). Also if you have trouble with the humidity, you could get some plastic and cover the back and maybe 1 or 2 sides. It would certainly help with the humidity.

 

[Turbo x39]

At this age offer as many bugs as he is willing to eat. Make sure he doesn't get dehydrated. My chameleon who is about 1 year old will go from looking fat to all of a sudden looking like he is starved so don't worry about it. I briefly looked over your given info and I dont see anything wrong. I would just add more plant density to the middle and top of the cage. His cage is quite bare. I am not completely sure with babies but I believe that the d3 and multivitamin are every other week not weekly (I could be wrong if this is different from what adults need). Also if you have trouble with the humidity, you could get some plastic and cover the back and maybe 1 or 2 sides. It would certainly help with the humidity.

What kind of things are good for filling the top of the cage? any easy to find live plants or will some synthetics do the job?

 

[Glen the Jackson's]

i was having a hard time hanging things from my cage as their is nothing to fasten any branches or foliage to except for the screen itself. I ordered some dragon ledges from this site. I highly recommend checking it out as it has made foliage and cover a lot easier to work with in the enclosure. http://dragonstrand.com

 

[Rexy1]

Chameleon Info:

• Your Chameleon - Aprox. 3 Month old Male Veiled Chameleon
  
• Handling - Only when I need to fix things in the cage
  
• Feeding - about 10 small crickets in the cage every day, have offered mealworms but doesnt seem to ever be interested. Trying to convince my mom to let me get some dubias, she isnt fond of the idea of me bringing roaches in the house but i want variety in its diet. I feed all my feeders with basic veggies mostly Carrots.
  
• Supplements - calcium without d3 every day, 1 time a week with d3, 1 time a week with multivitamins
  
• Watering - mist 3-4 times a day
  
• Fecal Description - Urate is always white, feces are always a dark brown and soft but solid
  
• History - Nothing i Know of

Cage Info:

• Cage Type - 18x18x36 reptibreeze screen cage
  
• Lighting - 5.0 13 watt UVB buld and a blue 60 watt daylight bulb
  
• Temperature - typical basking area: 86 F Mid: 78 bottom:
  
• Humidity - Sits around 35-45 I try to keep it above 40
  
• Plants - Pothos, a few fake vines and hanging plants, Grapewood log
  
• Placement - Desk By my Bed, I am in my room for a good 4-6 hours a day apart from sleeping, could me being around be stressing him out?
  
• Location - Utah

Current Problem - quite skinny I can see some ribs even when not stretched out, seems to slowly keep losing weight, eats but not as much as I hear they should.

Couldn't get a good picture of him, its close to lights out so he is getting ready to sleep but i wanted to find out if there is something wrong and what i can do asap.

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[Rexy1]

Need a linear uvb bulb those curly bulbs are not good. They go bad on ya and still come on plus they don't penetrate the cage. He will liven up guaranteed.

 

[poison]

Need a linear uvb bulb those curly bulbs are not good. They go bad on ya and still come on plus they don't penetrate the cage. He will liven up guaranteed.

Hi, mind elaborating on this. I remember many years back the compact bulbs were said to cause eye problems in reptiles but this concern was said to be fixed a few years ago. So what is not good about them? Also where did you get the information that they don't penetrate the enclosure?