szpond
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She was my first Veiled in my care for about 15 days. Is this too short a time for there to be a care-error? Did I purchase her with an illness?
She is my second Cham. I have a healthy male Jackson's.
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Juvenile female veiled. 1-2 months.
Handling - Once to get to the new home, and occasionally into a smaller aquarium to ensure she ate - watched her eat 5 pinhead crickets once or twice a day. I would count the crickets at the end of the day in the large enclosure to make sure she ate enough for the day.
Feeding - Pinhead crickets. I would put 10 into her large enclosure, but when she didn't eat at least 5, I would put her in the 10 gallon aquarium to eat. She was a fast hunter, good eater.
Supplements - Calcium dust without D3 daily - Multivitamin every other Friday and Calcium with D3 every other Friday.
Watering - Hand-held mister was a few times daily. Mostly she would drink 3 droplets (spaced out over 5 minutes) from my ear-dropper, from my hands. She was always quick to drink.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - All screen - 18 x 18 x 36, many climbing places. She would come down to the bottom to catch her food, however.
Lighting - 5.0 UVB bulb and also a 50 watt heat bulb held 4 inches away from top of terrarium - 6-7 inches away from basking spot.
Temperature - I have two thermometers - one near the top and one at the bottom. I only had them functioning today, but I saw 90 degrees at the top and 80-82 at the bottom. There are also shady areas.
Humidity - Humidity seems to be 50% without me doing anything - the room the Chams are in is that humid naturally, but I had the repti-fogger going into this screen enclosure as well to add extra water droplets, in case she needed more water while I was at class.
Plants - One XL pothos strung throughout the cage, 2 smaller ones growing vines at the bottom of the cage.
Placement - In my bedroom - door and windows are always closed, it's always high humidity high temperature. Not in direct sunlight.
Location - Michigan.
Here was my main concern: I was in contact with a few of you about how she would randomly sleep throughout the day. I did a combination of lighting (changing how far away they were, what basking spots were available, a 50 watt to a 75 watt back to a 50 watt)...but she would still sleep during the day. I was told not to think much of it because she was a hardy drinker and eater. She ALWAYS had access to food - in the beginning days there were 10-15 flightless fruit flies always walking around in the enclosure. I allowed her to eat as many of these as she wished.
Does anyone have some sort of explanation for me? I tried not to handle her at all, except for moving her when she needed to eat more. Please be as kind as you can, this is my first pet loss and I am very sad.
I do not want anything like this to happen in the future.
She is my second Cham. I have a healthy male Jackson's.
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Juvenile female veiled. 1-2 months.
Handling - Once to get to the new home, and occasionally into a smaller aquarium to ensure she ate - watched her eat 5 pinhead crickets once or twice a day. I would count the crickets at the end of the day in the large enclosure to make sure she ate enough for the day.
Feeding - Pinhead crickets. I would put 10 into her large enclosure, but when she didn't eat at least 5, I would put her in the 10 gallon aquarium to eat. She was a fast hunter, good eater.
Supplements - Calcium dust without D3 daily - Multivitamin every other Friday and Calcium with D3 every other Friday.
Watering - Hand-held mister was a few times daily. Mostly she would drink 3 droplets (spaced out over 5 minutes) from my ear-dropper, from my hands. She was always quick to drink.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - All screen - 18 x 18 x 36, many climbing places. She would come down to the bottom to catch her food, however.
Lighting - 5.0 UVB bulb and also a 50 watt heat bulb held 4 inches away from top of terrarium - 6-7 inches away from basking spot.
Temperature - I have two thermometers - one near the top and one at the bottom. I only had them functioning today, but I saw 90 degrees at the top and 80-82 at the bottom. There are also shady areas.
Humidity - Humidity seems to be 50% without me doing anything - the room the Chams are in is that humid naturally, but I had the repti-fogger going into this screen enclosure as well to add extra water droplets, in case she needed more water while I was at class.
Plants - One XL pothos strung throughout the cage, 2 smaller ones growing vines at the bottom of the cage.
Placement - In my bedroom - door and windows are always closed, it's always high humidity high temperature. Not in direct sunlight.
Location - Michigan.
Here was my main concern: I was in contact with a few of you about how she would randomly sleep throughout the day. I did a combination of lighting (changing how far away they were, what basking spots were available, a 50 watt to a 75 watt back to a 50 watt)...but she would still sleep during the day. I was told not to think much of it because she was a hardy drinker and eater. She ALWAYS had access to food - in the beginning days there were 10-15 flightless fruit flies always walking around in the enclosure. I allowed her to eat as many of these as she wished.
Does anyone have some sort of explanation for me? I tried not to handle her at all, except for moving her when she needed to eat more. Please be as kind as you can, this is my first pet loss and I am very sad.
I do not want anything like this to happen in the future.
I'm trying my best but I can't help but feel like I could have made things different.
