chloe924
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Hello! I hope you are all ok. =)
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Male Panther chameleon. About 3 years 6 months old and I’ve had him for just over 3 years.
Handling - Daily but briefly. He has a free range that I run to his cage that he can use whenever he likes when I’m off work. I pick him up only to put him back into his cage.
Feeding - Locusts are his staple, with the odd box of crickets a month and morio/super worms. I also feed him wax worms on vitamin/vitD days so he definitely eats some as they’re his favourite. Sometimes I get silkworms too. I try him with food every other day & his pickiness varies. Currently he’ll snap up a medium locust or 3. I only keep a small amount of feeders at a time. I use bug burger & Arcadia insect fuel as gutloaders. With carrots added too.
Supplements - I use repashy plus LoD for most feedings and EarthPro-A for vit supplement every 2 weeks. Every month I give a feeding with Repashy HyD as I believe my daily supplement already has a regular low dose of vitamin D and I don’t want to overdo it. Please tell me if this is wrong though!
Watering - I have a mist king that is set to go off throughout the day. I will have to double check the times. Humidity usually sits around 70% upwards depending on recent spray. Once a week I will hand spray with luke warm water as he likes to walk under the spray and clean his eyes/drink. I also set a big dripper up that drips onto a repurposed exo-terra dripping plant that doesn’t use the pump system. I see him drink from it daily.
Fecal Description - Slightly creamy large urate and brown well digested faeces. He has been tested for parasites a few times but not in the last year, so due another one.
History - He has a large free range made out of bamboo sticks and rope that is over 6foot high and is over a good chunk of my living room. He is only out when I’m off work & at home and he has access at all times to his cage, which he regularly returns to in order to bask. I also return him for an hr or so if I notice he has been out a while. When he is out we both ignore each other, but he loves exploring the whole thing and is very active. I know time away from UVB isn’t great, but I hate to see him cooped up for long. I also let him out for an hour most days before work. I do work a lot though so the majority of his time is in the cage.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - XL reptibreeze with a shower curtain covering 2 sides and cork reptile background at the back. I can take a pic in the morning when he is awake if you like.
Lighting - Exo terra 70w basking bulb, it’s technically on a microclimate dimmer but water destroyed the screen and I can’t afford to replace it currently, so I dunno if it works. The lights still turn on & off automatically on time so hopefully! I just keep a regular check. I have a linear t5 550mm 6% UVB bulb from Reptile Systems with a reflector. It’s meant to last a year but I change it every 6months as I’ve not heard much about the brand. The lights turn on at 6:30am and off at 6:30pm. I also have an arcadia jungle dawn growth light, but I rarely use it as my chameleon then uses it as a basking light.
Temperature - The basking spot is 35C the last I checked and I will have to check the ambient/lower cage when he is awake. I know I struggle usually due to the mesh cage in winter but now it’s summer so around 19c ambient. Technically there is a dimmer (see above) and I also have a duel temp/humidity reader and a temperature gun I regularly use.
Humidity - Humidity goes from 70% at lowest to in the 90s. My house is super humid. I have a duel temp/humidity cage and I keep the humidity gage up in the top quarter.
Plants - 2 well grown pothos vines and a fake vine at the back.
Placement - The top of the cage is 6foot 3 inches off the floor. It is in my living room but I live alone and rarely have anyone over during the times he is awake. At night I cover over his cage with a thin bedsheet.
Location - Northern England
Current Problem - I think he could be developing a respiratory infection? I do plan on taking him to the vets, but they’ve been pretty useless in the past, so I would love to see if I could get any opinions while I wait for an appointment please? Just so I can point them in the right direction really. So for the past two days he has occasionally been puffing up his gular pouch as much as he can and then exhaling air forcefully. I’ve also caught him slightly opening and closing his mouth as if chewing.
90% of the time he has behaved normally. He is just as active as ever and today I’ve seen him drink loads from his dripper and eat two locusts. I made him gape at me and there was no mucus/froth inside his mouth, nor anything caught that could be irritating him that I could see. I’ve not spotted him sitting with his head raised or mouth open either. When he forces air out, its more like he’s trying to force it from his nose. I did see a little bit of salt on the outside of one nostril, but they look clear otherwise. Trying to listen to his chest I don't hear wheezing, just the odd puff of air but that was probably irritably directed at me!
He is asleep now but I’ve poked my head under the sheet and can see no laboured breathing or hear any wheezing. I managed to video him with his strange exhalation just before bed, though its not as pronounced as it can be. I don’t know whats up with him, but I know you can’t hang about with infections and chameleons. Tomorrow I plan on deep cleaning his cage and also using the steam cleaner and ringing the vets. I would be grateful for any ideas, though I know there isnt too much to go on. Hopefully I can get a better video tomorrow. Thanks for reading all this!
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Male Panther chameleon. About 3 years 6 months old and I’ve had him for just over 3 years.
Handling - Daily but briefly. He has a free range that I run to his cage that he can use whenever he likes when I’m off work. I pick him up only to put him back into his cage.
Feeding - Locusts are his staple, with the odd box of crickets a month and morio/super worms. I also feed him wax worms on vitamin/vitD days so he definitely eats some as they’re his favourite. Sometimes I get silkworms too. I try him with food every other day & his pickiness varies. Currently he’ll snap up a medium locust or 3. I only keep a small amount of feeders at a time. I use bug burger & Arcadia insect fuel as gutloaders. With carrots added too.
Supplements - I use repashy plus LoD for most feedings and EarthPro-A for vit supplement every 2 weeks. Every month I give a feeding with Repashy HyD as I believe my daily supplement already has a regular low dose of vitamin D and I don’t want to overdo it. Please tell me if this is wrong though!
Watering - I have a mist king that is set to go off throughout the day. I will have to double check the times. Humidity usually sits around 70% upwards depending on recent spray. Once a week I will hand spray with luke warm water as he likes to walk under the spray and clean his eyes/drink. I also set a big dripper up that drips onto a repurposed exo-terra dripping plant that doesn’t use the pump system. I see him drink from it daily.
Fecal Description - Slightly creamy large urate and brown well digested faeces. He has been tested for parasites a few times but not in the last year, so due another one.
History - He has a large free range made out of bamboo sticks and rope that is over 6foot high and is over a good chunk of my living room. He is only out when I’m off work & at home and he has access at all times to his cage, which he regularly returns to in order to bask. I also return him for an hr or so if I notice he has been out a while. When he is out we both ignore each other, but he loves exploring the whole thing and is very active. I know time away from UVB isn’t great, but I hate to see him cooped up for long. I also let him out for an hour most days before work. I do work a lot though so the majority of his time is in the cage.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - XL reptibreeze with a shower curtain covering 2 sides and cork reptile background at the back. I can take a pic in the morning when he is awake if you like.
Lighting - Exo terra 70w basking bulb, it’s technically on a microclimate dimmer but water destroyed the screen and I can’t afford to replace it currently, so I dunno if it works. The lights still turn on & off automatically on time so hopefully! I just keep a regular check. I have a linear t5 550mm 6% UVB bulb from Reptile Systems with a reflector. It’s meant to last a year but I change it every 6months as I’ve not heard much about the brand. The lights turn on at 6:30am and off at 6:30pm. I also have an arcadia jungle dawn growth light, but I rarely use it as my chameleon then uses it as a basking light.
Temperature - The basking spot is 35C the last I checked and I will have to check the ambient/lower cage when he is awake. I know I struggle usually due to the mesh cage in winter but now it’s summer so around 19c ambient. Technically there is a dimmer (see above) and I also have a duel temp/humidity reader and a temperature gun I regularly use.
Humidity - Humidity goes from 70% at lowest to in the 90s. My house is super humid. I have a duel temp/humidity cage and I keep the humidity gage up in the top quarter.
Plants - 2 well grown pothos vines and a fake vine at the back.
Placement - The top of the cage is 6foot 3 inches off the floor. It is in my living room but I live alone and rarely have anyone over during the times he is awake. At night I cover over his cage with a thin bedsheet.
Location - Northern England
Current Problem - I think he could be developing a respiratory infection? I do plan on taking him to the vets, but they’ve been pretty useless in the past, so I would love to see if I could get any opinions while I wait for an appointment please? Just so I can point them in the right direction really. So for the past two days he has occasionally been puffing up his gular pouch as much as he can and then exhaling air forcefully. I’ve also caught him slightly opening and closing his mouth as if chewing.
90% of the time he has behaved normally. He is just as active as ever and today I’ve seen him drink loads from his dripper and eat two locusts. I made him gape at me and there was no mucus/froth inside his mouth, nor anything caught that could be irritating him that I could see. I’ve not spotted him sitting with his head raised or mouth open either. When he forces air out, its more like he’s trying to force it from his nose. I did see a little bit of salt on the outside of one nostril, but they look clear otherwise. Trying to listen to his chest I don't hear wheezing, just the odd puff of air but that was probably irritably directed at me!
He is asleep now but I’ve poked my head under the sheet and can see no laboured breathing or hear any wheezing. I managed to video him with his strange exhalation just before bed, though its not as pronounced as it can be. I don’t know whats up with him, but I know you can’t hang about with infections and chameleons. Tomorrow I plan on deep cleaning his cage and also using the steam cleaner and ringing the vets. I would be grateful for any ideas, though I know there isnt too much to go on. Hopefully I can get a better video tomorrow. Thanks for reading all this!
