Aletheaseverino
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Hi guys! So my veiled chameleon Arlo has recently become very moody. He is almost a year old and up until a couple months ago he was such a sweet boy. I would take him out of his cage with no hastle(only about once every other day because I know they are timid and don’t enjoy being touched very much if at all) he would go on walks with me and sit on my head. But recently he just wants nothing to do with me. Today I had him free roaming for the first time in a while as I’ve been really busy and I went to put my hand out to him as I usually do and he puffed up, he then got on my arm on his own but then hissed a little bit. At this time I took him back to his enclosure as not to possibly stress him out. At no point did he change color, he recently shed a lot and I try to leave him alone because he’s very sassy when he’s shedding but he’s never been this upset with me before. I feel like a mother dealing with a rebellious teenager Please help!
He has a bird cage for good ventilation measuring at 2 feet wide by 4 1/2 feet tall
he is given crickets daily, gutloaded with mostly veggies and gets mealworms every 2-3 days which I hand feed to him most of the time
he has an automatic dripper filled with filtered water of course
Lastly he has an abricola tree in his enclosure for him to climb and a couple artificial ones hanging on the walls for extra exploring
PS: recently the abricola tree has begun dying, is it possible that this is causing him to be moody because he doesn’t have as many branches to grab onto since they’ve fallen off?
He has a bird cage for good ventilation measuring at 2 feet wide by 4 1/2 feet tall
he is given crickets daily, gutloaded with mostly veggies and gets mealworms every 2-3 days which I hand feed to him most of the time
he has an automatic dripper filled with filtered water of course
Lastly he has an abricola tree in his enclosure for him to climb and a couple artificial ones hanging on the walls for extra exploring
PS: recently the abricola tree has begun dying, is it possible that this is causing him to be moody because he doesn’t have as many branches to grab onto since they’ve fallen off?