Cham always unhappy and not sure why

[SimonTheCham]

Your Chameleon - Female jacksons about 4-6 months old, has been with us for about 3 months
Handling - Faltering
Feeding - Crix gutloaded, with cal twice a week d3 multivite once a month
Supplements - repti calcium and flukers
Watering - drippee and misting, i see her drinking.
Fecal Description - Urate is white
History - Is shedding eyes mouth and body, pet store cham good conditions. she hasnt been green in her cage though:/

Cage Info:

Cage Type - screen 4 feet tall by 2 feet wide
Lighting - Uvb reptisun 5.0 all day off at night 75 watt basking light all day off night and
Temperature - 80-85 basking 70 lowest area of cage i have 2 dial thermometers
Humidity - 60-80 hygrometer probe
Plants - Live pothos(3-4) spider(2)3 silk fake leaves 1 big hibiscus- she seems afraid of it
Placement - Bedroom low traffic other pets in the room but cham cant see them they cant see her-cage just standing on floor, highest point 4 feet
Location - north eastern wisconsin


Current Problem - always nervous/dark/never goes in hibiscus. Her usual colors now, a lot of the time hugging the branch

 

[Lathis]

Your care generally looks good. Young Jax are often not the bright green you see on adults. She is still pretty young and may not move into her adult colors until 6+ months. Is this a change in her behavior or has she always been this way? Does she eat and drink okay? Baby chams are hiders by nature. She may feel too exposed in the hibiscus currently.

 

[Action Jackson]

Your Chameleon is too young to be green yet. Can you post a picture of your whole cage set up?

 

[SimonTheCham]

Heres a pic of her setup- we just got an arbirocola to get rid of the hibiscus.

 

[SimonTheCham]

Your care generally looks good. Young Jax are often not the bright green you see on adults. She is still pretty young and may not move into her adult colors until 6+ months. Is this a change in her behavior or has she always been this way? Does she eat and drink okay? Baby chams are hiders by nature. She may feel too exposed in the hibiscus currently.

She eats and drinks just fine, and she used to be in a very small cage, and was stressed but wasnt usually as dark. shes been in the new cage for about 1-3 weeks. The other jacksons at the store is about the same age and is always super green. The one at the store is a male though.

 

[Lathis]

Give her a little more time.
She might be adjusting to her new home still.

 

[junglefries]

The males are a different green than the females. Just give her time. Jacksons are a little more nervous than other chameleons. High traffic areas, kids, pets, tv's, basically anything can disturb them. The best way to observe a jax is with a wifi camera. Then you can truly enjoy them and really see what is troubling them, if anything.

 

[SimonTheCham]

Thank you!

 

[Leslie11]

chain

Could the metal chain scare her? Just a thought.