See my notes in red.
PS I lived in SuFu for 5yrs
Sorry the first time I filled this out I didn't post it, I guess
I have a Male Nosey Be panther chameleon.
He is about three years old. He has been in my care for two years after he was rehome to me from a friend.
I try to handle him as little as possible, maybe once a month ish?
I feed him a mix of super worms and crickets,
equivalent to feeding a child only cheeseburgers. Variety is key and there's much more nutritious feeders out there to try or gut loading I give them fresh fruit like apples
this is the most important part of owning a chameleon. This needs to be greatly improved upon. See gutload care sheet before I feed them to him. When feeding super worms I put about twenty
this is way too many. 5 a day or 10 every other obesity is just as bad as starving to a chameleon into a feeding bowl attached to the side of his cage and I let him eat them at his leisure, it usually takes him about two to four days to eat them all.
Unless you're feeding your bugs while their in there that long they're losing nutrients. Feed every other day. With crickets I put about 5 to ten into his cage so that he can get a little bit of enrichment as he hunts them down. I'm always extremely careful to make sure that they don't irritate him or bite him, if I see them not getting eaten with the first few hours I take them out and put them in the next day. After he finishes a meal i usually wait a day or two before feeding him again.
As for supplements up until this week he got repcal dusted onto his food every other feeding time.
This has been addressed previously
For watering he has a misting system that goes off every two hours for 15 seconds, if he seems to be looking for more water I manually spray a leaf near him so he can drink more.
As for his poo it's an oblong bit that is dark brown in color and a white bit that is gloopy. This hasn't seen much change since the day I got him. He was tested for parasites when my friend first got him, but not since. Though there hasn't been any changes with him to warrant checking.
As for history he hasn't had any medical problems before this and has been all around very healthy.
He is in a XL reptibreeze that is 4 ft tall by 2ft by 2ft . One side is covered by paper to help keep humidity in.
As for lighting I have a flukers 100 watt heat lamp and a zoo-med 5.0 tropical uvb light.
This has been discussed previously During the summer I turn off both lights at night for about 8 hours, during the winter some nights I have to leave his heat lamp on at night due to it getting cold in my room (into the 50s if it's super cold out) but usually both his lamps are unplugged for 8 hours each night.
Chameleons need 12hrs of sun and 12hrs of complete darkness. They can take night drops into the mud 50s. Anything below that you need to use a Ceramic Heat Admidter. These produce heat but no light this is imperative!
His basking spot is around 90° and the temperature of the change floor is 65° at night the lowest I let the cage get is about 62° though it usually is between 70° and 65°. I measure his temperature with a laser thermometer (whatever the real name for the is)
As for humidity, he is kept between 60 to 75% humidity. I use the misting system as listed previously and I have a humidity gauge attached to the side of his cage.
I don't use live plants. And I have coconut fiber for his substrate.
The cage is located in my room. It's not in a high traffic area, I'm the only person who goes in and out, and the side by the door is the side that has paper covering it to prevent him getting stressed when I come in. His cage is currently about two feet away from and air vent to he gets air flow and heat from it, during the summer he is moved away from it and kept by my window which I have cracked open for airflow. His cage sits on the floor so the top of his cage is 4 ft from the floor. I am located on the east side of South Dakota, US.
And my current problem is him not having much grip in his front legs and having a hard bump on his wrist.
I'm not a vet and I will never claim to be able to replace one. But from the sounds of it and from reviewing your husbandry it sounds like early onslaught of MBD. You'll need a reputable reptile vet to confirm this and discuss further treatment beyond the things you'll need to fix in your husbandry.
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