SaintJimmy
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Jackson's, Male, around 4-5 months old. Been in my care for maybe a month now???
Handling - Twice total
Feeding -I feed once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Usually crickets or super worms small enough for him to gobble. Gutloaded with apples, oranges, squash, carrots... Other things but that's my main.
Supplements - Regular calcium twice a week and d3 once a month
Watering - I mist with warm water for around 3 minute periods usually 2-4 times a day allowing drying periods. This keeps the humidity nice and high when needed, and I definitely do see him drink. He'll drink twice or more a day from my hand for up to a minute or more (squirt bottle).
Fecal Description - Never been tested, all fecals are consistent and normal.
History - Gular edema. Kept in tiny cage before. Has a sort of cleft in his lip, maybe from force feeding or cricket bite.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Entirely screen, 16x16x20 (I know, tiny, but he is tiny too).
Lighting - Lights on at 6:30 am and off at around 7:00 pm. Regular 60 watt bulb and a uvb coil for now.
Temperature - I know his ambient is 68-70 because that's the house temp. Basking is around 80. Measure with dials but I know it's not too hot or cold because it's definitely not hotter than 83 at the most.
Humidity - 80% sometimes throughout the day but I allow drying periods. Again measured with humidity dials...
Plants - No live ones, planning on buying a baby schefflera SOON.
Placement - Cage isn't near any vents. It's fairly close to a window, not close enough for him to see out.
Location - So cal
Current Problem - Okay so my little boy Brave... He acts fine all the time.
Until tonight, I left my room light on and his basking lights off. So obviously he could still see. So he wandered down to the bottom door and started clawing at it and looking out. I opened it up and he wanted nothing to do with me so I took a shower.
Came back and it's 9:10 or so and he is on the floor of the cage looking like he wants to go to sleep right in the center of the bottom door. So I scooped him gently into my hands and put him on a towel and that dried off the bottom of him so then I have him on a fake tree now on my desk right next to me.
Why would he just do that? Is it because he is sick? Because he wants out? I don't get it. His cage is definitely not too small for him, he is like maybe 3-4 inches long at most.
Your Chameleon - Jackson's, Male, around 4-5 months old. Been in my care for maybe a month now???
Handling - Twice total
Feeding -I feed once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Usually crickets or super worms small enough for him to gobble. Gutloaded with apples, oranges, squash, carrots... Other things but that's my main.
Supplements - Regular calcium twice a week and d3 once a month
Watering - I mist with warm water for around 3 minute periods usually 2-4 times a day allowing drying periods. This keeps the humidity nice and high when needed, and I definitely do see him drink. He'll drink twice or more a day from my hand for up to a minute or more (squirt bottle).
Fecal Description - Never been tested, all fecals are consistent and normal.
History - Gular edema. Kept in tiny cage before. Has a sort of cleft in his lip, maybe from force feeding or cricket bite.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Entirely screen, 16x16x20 (I know, tiny, but he is tiny too).
Lighting - Lights on at 6:30 am and off at around 7:00 pm. Regular 60 watt bulb and a uvb coil for now.
Temperature - I know his ambient is 68-70 because that's the house temp. Basking is around 80. Measure with dials but I know it's not too hot or cold because it's definitely not hotter than 83 at the most.
Humidity - 80% sometimes throughout the day but I allow drying periods. Again measured with humidity dials...
Plants - No live ones, planning on buying a baby schefflera SOON.
Placement - Cage isn't near any vents. It's fairly close to a window, not close enough for him to see out.
Location - So cal
Current Problem - Okay so my little boy Brave... He acts fine all the time.
Until tonight, I left my room light on and his basking lights off. So obviously he could still see. So he wandered down to the bottom door and started clawing at it and looking out. I opened it up and he wanted nothing to do with me so I took a shower.
Came back and it's 9:10 or so and he is on the floor of the cage looking like he wants to go to sleep right in the center of the bottom door. So I scooped him gently into my hands and put him on a towel and that dried off the bottom of him so then I have him on a fake tree now on my desk right next to me.
Why would he just do that? Is it because he is sick? Because he wants out? I don't get it. His cage is definitely not too small for him, he is like maybe 3-4 inches long at most.
I hate to be the one that says it but Jacksons are known to just pass away within the first 6 months of their life. They are sensative little ones. Make sure you are taking extra care and lots of love 
