Sydamestkaine
New Member
Hi, I’m a new owner of an 8 months old veiled male chameleon and the last 3 days I’ve been freaking out. So, we got him 2 weeks ago from a guy who has a lot of different reptiles at his home and his chameleon girl had babies, but since he already had so many different reptiles to take care of he sold 3 of his chameleons. So one of them is ours now. I know for a fact that he was in good hands before, so everything was alright when he came home. So this guy that we got him from also custom built a big glass cage for him, put the right lightning and stuff in it because I didn’t know anything about that, but anyways in the cage he also but a lot of different branches so he could climb. Now 4 days ago me and my mom decided to redecorate the cage because the branches that were originally in there were starting to get messy and it was hard for him to move inside the cage. He has been a super friendly chameleon from the start, he likes to come out of the cage and climb on top of our heads and body. Always when I open the cage door he runs out on my hand, sometimes it’s hard to feed him because he thinks he’s getting out and tries to climb on me. When we were redecorating his cage, he was just chilling on my head the whole time watching the process. We put some new branches, a plant and one fake flower thingy, I don’t know what you would call it, but basically just a stick that has 2 fake white flowers on it, so it’s just for climbing basically. When we put him back to the cage everything seemed okay, he was curios, climbing around the new cage. After been put to the new cage he didn’t eat anything anymore at that day and I figured it was because he needs time to settle down in the new cage. But now for the past 3 days he hasn’t eaten anything. We usually feed him crickets, roaches and worms. He also likes salad leaves, we put them on some branches and he eats them. Usually when he has been in a “bad mood” some days, he has still eaten the worms, but now he wont even touch them. I’m getting really worried because he is getting skinnier from not eating I guess. He is still active and comes out the cage but he has gotten clumsy and sometimes closes his eyes for a little bit. I’m just so scared that something bad is happening and I don’t know what to do to help him. Can somebody tell me what’s going on, I’m new at taking care of a chameleon and I’m still learning his behaviour so yeah this freaks me out a lot..