average weight of a Veiled chameleon!?

[Docility]

so after going to the vet today they said he weighed just under 2 ounces?

hes about 6 months old, and is like 5-6 inches snout to vent

so my question is what is the normal weight?

50g is his weight

 

[Julirs]

50g is his weight

Sounds good to me. Do you have any pictures?

 

[Docility]

Sounds good to me. Do you have any pictures?

i will post them soon the vet said he should weigh closer to 100grams!?
i thought that was way to much, and he seems consistent to the other chams i have gotten the pleasure to handle

 

[leid]

100 g? Seriously? My vet told me Fred was perfectly healthy at 6 months and 55 g. He's now almost 7 months and 75 g though lol.

 

[Eric Adrignola]

The weight, size, and length varies tremendously. I've seen 6 month olds over 200grams, while my old male was 100grams at a year old. Their weight varies with growth rate, which also varies...

 

[BigR]

My female was 100g at 7 months

 

[jojackson]

Homer is 105 grams at 4 & half months. Just weighed him. He measures 140 mm/5 n half inches snout to vent.

Sorry thats 102 grams (sans 3 grams for the twig). Its not easy to weigh an animal that likes to move!

How do you weigh yours?

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy,

Here are a few old threads about chameleon weights:

https://www.chameleonforums.com/chameleon-weights-13789/

(The one with graphs)
https://www.chameleonforums.com/weight-veiled-chameleons-12980/

 

[jojackson]

woahh dave!!! so organized!! haha thanks alot for the info, much appreciated.

Indeed! Excellent resouce, spot on as usual, Thankyou!

 

[summoner12]

Homer is 105 grams at 4 & half months. Just weighed him. He measures 140 mm/5 n half inches snout to vent.

Sorry thats 102 grams (sans 3 grams for the twig). Its not easy to weigh an animal that likes to move!

How do you weigh yours?

Doesn't Homer eat a lot of donuts and drink a lot of beer?

I have a stick that sits on my scale. I tare the scale with just the stick on the scale. The scale then reads zero. Then I weigh the animal.

 

[leid]

LOL. Homer's a cool name. I'd be so cool to have a bunch of chams and name them after ancient writers and philosophers and enlightenment thinkers of the 16th and 17th centuries.

 

[summoner12]

I weighed my veileds today.. they are both about 18 months old and at about the same size...

Jake

8.75" is 228g

Fred

8.25" is 221g

 

[jojackson]

LOL. Homer's a cool name. I'd be so cool to have a bunch of chams and name them after ancient writers and philosophers and enlightenment thinkers of the 16th and 17th centuries.

LOl Actually, Its not after Homer as in "Homer - epic poet, thought to be author of the Iliad and Odyssey.", though Thats cool too, Summoner was on the mark, hes named after Homer as in , 'yellow, 3 fingers, eats donuts (crickets), Funny as hell'

(hes nice and yellow) and 3 fingers fits!
I thought about Gallileo or something, but Homer stuck.
Now hes 4 times the size (big casque) ,maybe 'Domer' is more apt? LOL

 

[leid]

I really want to get a female veiled, which I plan to do after moving Fred to a bigger cage, and call her Isis. I love that name.

 

[jojackson]

I wonder the people of Yemen call veilds in the native tongue? A yemeni name might be cool.

 

[leid]

I don't even know what a Yemeni name would be. Muhammad? lol! That would actually be pretty funny. Muhammad the chameleon!

 

[jojackson]

Ooooh! I was gonna say 'Ahab' but I thought Id be shot down for blatant racism Lol

apparently arabian word for chameleon is 'شخص متقلب' No idea how to say that!

 

[leid]

That is pronounced HER-BA.

 

[jojackson]

Hmmm? 'Herby' ? As In 'goes Bannanas! Ive always envied those with a talent for linguistics,
They say its easier to master other languages when your young, Too late for me, Id end up with a tongue like a cham If i tried to get my head around a language like Arabic.

 

[leid]

no like herr-bah. lol.