Cham not eating and is not very active

blatallic

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Your Chameleon - Veil, about 7-8 months old, just found out shes a female.
Handling - I don't handle her
Feeding - Crickets, dusted with calcium and with D3 every other week... Superworms once in a while.... I have a feeder bottle in the enclosure.
Supplements - Fluckers Calcium w/ D3 ... Fluckers Calcium
Watering - Enclosure gets misted twice a day and theres a dripper.
Fecal Description - Dark Brown maybe black... No testing done
History - Lived in a glass enclosure before I got her (she belonged to my brother in law) ... From reading here, I found out it was the wrong type of enclosure for her.... So I upgraded it ... she spent about 2 months without UVB bulb before i got her as well...

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen from LLreptile ... 24x24x48...
Lighting - Naturalistic Terrarium Hood with 10.0 and 5.0 UVB bulb and a 75w basking bulb.
Temperature - Basking spot is about 90f.... Bottom of cage around 80f... night temps are 75f-79f... Measured with Zoo Med themo/Hum gauge
Humidity - humidity is averages 65%.... lowest it goes is 50% and i create this by misting and dripper.
Plants - 3 pothos... 3 echverias... 1 croton plant... 1 Quesnelia... and 2 fake plants
Placement - In home office close to a window with very little traffic ... only in the afternoon when i get home and check her out. Enclosure in on the floor.
Location - Spring, Texas

Current Problem - I got her not to long ago. She was in a small glass enclosure before me. she got fed only crickets and they were dusted about once a week. From what I know she did not have a UVB for about 2 months... due to previous owner not knowing.

I got her and I placed her in the current setup.

She's not eating much...maybe 2 crickets a day at most... Shes always very dark, except when shes sleeping (very light green). I did not know she was a female until yesterday (thanks to this forum). She tends to lay in the pathos pot either on top of the cage or the bottom a whole lot. She can be out basking and if I walk in the room, she'll go and lay behind the plant and lay there all day.

Since she is a female, and she was digging in her old enclosure, I'm afraid that she maybe eggbound ... but I'm not sure. She was placed in her new enclosure last week, so I'm not sure if she's still adapting. I did place a bucket with sand in the bottom of her enclosure.

I'm just trying to provide the best that I can for her. I know that she was not placed in a right enclosure but since I got her, I've tried to give her the best that I can and improve everything. I've learned a lot so far.

Here's pictures of her old enclosure....
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After I got her, Her New Enclosure....
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How she gets when I get close
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Where she hides, but she actually goes into the Pot
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I am very glad you got her a new home! Her last home was atrocious! :(

Her new cage looks perfect. Everything is great now.

I think maybe she is eggbound, that seems like the best guess here.
 
Well, went to the vet today. They tested her for parasites ... did a complete check up on her. He said that she looks fine, shes carries eggs. He said that everything looked good, just keep up on the calcium (she got an injection) and to give her a spot to lay her eggs. So I'm relieved. :)
 
That is great news. You should put a towel over her cage so she doesn't see anyone and no one can see her. You can check on her but try very hard not to let her see you. After she has laid you will see a dirty face, from digging, and a skinnier Cham.
 
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