Coloration of my female carpet chameleon

[ivythechammy]

Hello friends,
After a few years and a handful of vivariums under my belt, I have decided to get a carpet chameleon. She is currently 3-4months old. She is perfectly healthy, but I’m a bit disappointed that she’s just a light green animal, not the brightly displayed one like the ones I’ve seen in photos. Is she going to undergo dramatic transformation as she matures, or this is basically it?

 

[GrannyK]

This is basically it unless you mate her or she produces eggs. She will get pinkish purple dots near her head (maybe) if she produces eggs. Other than that unless you mate her she stays pretty green. Make her mad and you’ll see her colors too but not nearly as intense as if she mates. Those colors you see are gravid females (mated girls most likely)
Sorry to disappoint you, I just lost my 2 1/2 yr old female and I can say, she may not have colored a ton but they have quite the personality and are very beautiful at times.
Enjoy her, their lifespan is here and gone in no time.

 

[BleuSaphir]

You probably want to get another cage and buy a male. And let them see each other from afar and let them fire up with their dramatic colors. Haha

 

[GrannyK]

This is when she was excitedly hunting one day. I happily snapped a few shots because she was not so green. They do throw some change, just not drastic like you see.

 

[LizardLurkin]

A lot of photos of chameleons are taken when they're fired up for extra wow factor, but in truth their relaxed colors are much less dramatic and more drab than people let on.
I hope she'll give you some cool patterns, but she looks so cute and classical chameleon-like there

 

[Maximus_Cham]

Picture of my female Carpet normally and when she fired up