@kated You got lots of work to do....
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
-vieled chameleon, male, age 3 months, had for 2 months.
Do you have pictures of when you first got him? He looks very small for a 3 month old cham...
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
-4ish times a week
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
-3 crickets or 4 mealworms/day around afternoon/evening, veggies but doesn’t eat them
This cham is improperly nourished and fed the wrong feeders... You need to:
a) Not buy a single more mealworm, they are useless to chams.
b) Feed an appropriate amount, ~10-15 crickets
c) Gutload said crickets. This means feeding the crickets many fruits and vegetables so the nutrients in the crickets from the vegetables are passed on to your cham. I will attach a form listing the most commonly used vegetables and fruits to gutload. Pick at least 2 fruits and 3 vegetables from the form.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
-dust crickets and mealworms w/ vitamin c supplement
Chams don't need to be supplemented with vitamin C... I'm not sure who told you that. You need to dust every feeder with calcium without d3 every day, except one day of the week. On that one day, use a calcium with d3. The next week on that one day, use a multivitamin without d3, and so on and so forth.
Another way is to get a multivitamin with d3 and just use that one every two weeks instead of rotating those supplements.
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
-mist 3-4 times a day, humidifier on during day
Mist around lights on and around lights off.
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
-no and regular
What's regular? We need colors.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
-screen
Dimensions??
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
-UV light (all day) and red basking Lamp (late morning to evening)
You need a linear t5 ho 5.0 uvb bulb, or arcadia 6%
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
-basking spot/top usually 83-93
Basking should be 80-85, ambient should be ~70. 83-93 is a very broad range, why is that? Basking temps shouldn't fluctuate this much?
What's your lowest overnight temp? Yemens benefit from a temp drop at night.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
-don’t have humidity gage, but humidifier helps
What do you mean it "helps"? If you don't know how high or low the humidity is then what is the humidifier helping to achieve?
I just checked, and humidity in Columbia seems to be more then enough without a humidifer. Humidity should be 30-50% during the day and 80-100% at night.
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
-one live plant
Get all live plants, fake plants are an impaction risk and leak chemicals into the water they drink off the fake leaves.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
-floor in living room, in front of large window
Chams like to be up high, put the enclosure on a shelf or something.
Location - Where are you geographically located?
-Columbia SC
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
-faded skin color--
Caused by no gutload.
-size/weight --
Underfed.
