Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - I have a female veiled named Becky who spent a long time in a pet store (somebody bought and returned her). I bought her at approx. one year old about 5 months ago.
Handling - I get her out of the enclosure and playing in a tree she likes a few times a week, now and then she is bold enough to crawl on me for a while. I don't force her to hang out with me. Sometimes she is moody. I feed by hand and have been making an effort to socialize her.
Feeding - Becky eats crickets, hornworms, superworms, and waxworms. She loves the hornworms and will hungerstrike for them but I try to limit them. I have stopped with the superworms lately because I've become convinced that she has trouble digesting the outer shells. Crickets are gutloaded with greens, carrots, yellow peppers right now. Basically whatever I have in the fridge...
Supplements - Once a week I dust crickets with repti-calcium supplement with D3.
Watering - I mist her a couple times a day. I don't see her drink often. I understand she gets some water from the hornworms...I give her a couple of those per week.
Fecal Description - I think these look good
History - I know that she wasn't pleased with her pet store enclosure, which was wider and not tall.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - I have a glass screen combo that is 16X16X24. I realize that she would be happier in something larger and fully screened and intend to move things in that direction.
Lighting - She's got UVA and UVB lights.
Temperature - She likes the temp around 85 during the day and around 70 at night.
Humidity - Shes got moss in her enclosure that keeps moisture in, I try to keep humidity above 40%.
Plants - She has an Asplenium nidus in her enclosure which she's bite every now and then. I've checked for it on recommended plants for chameleons.
Placement - She is on my desk. It is not heavily traveled, but I put her here so I can look at her a lot...
Location - Toronto, Canada
Current Problem - So I am concerned that her caregivers in the pet store have no recollection of her ever having laid eggs, and she also hasn't laid eggs with me. She has always been a bit chunky, I can never tell clearly if she is carrying eggs. I have tried a couple of different laying environments in her enclosure.
1) a 12" flower pot filled with soil in her enclosure (she likes to go down and taste the soil but no action from that...I was concerned it wasn't big enough)
2) A big square container that fit exactly the dimensions of her enclosure. I filled it with play sand. She didn't seem to like it very much.
I worry a lot about her becoming egg bound and dying. I'd be interested to know if anyone can tell based on photos if she needs to lay, and also if anyone has advice for providing a laying environment more conducive to her needs. I've read that her colouring would give it away, but she doesn't have colouring anywhere near as intense as the ones I see in google images.
Your Chameleon - I have a female veiled named Becky who spent a long time in a pet store (somebody bought and returned her). I bought her at approx. one year old about 5 months ago.
Handling - I get her out of the enclosure and playing in a tree she likes a few times a week, now and then she is bold enough to crawl on me for a while. I don't force her to hang out with me. Sometimes she is moody. I feed by hand and have been making an effort to socialize her.
Feeding - Becky eats crickets, hornworms, superworms, and waxworms. She loves the hornworms and will hungerstrike for them but I try to limit them. I have stopped with the superworms lately because I've become convinced that she has trouble digesting the outer shells. Crickets are gutloaded with greens, carrots, yellow peppers right now. Basically whatever I have in the fridge...
Supplements - Once a week I dust crickets with repti-calcium supplement with D3.
Watering - I mist her a couple times a day. I don't see her drink often. I understand she gets some water from the hornworms...I give her a couple of those per week.
Fecal Description - I think these look good
History - I know that she wasn't pleased with her pet store enclosure, which was wider and not tall.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - I have a glass screen combo that is 16X16X24. I realize that she would be happier in something larger and fully screened and intend to move things in that direction.
Lighting - She's got UVA and UVB lights.
Temperature - She likes the temp around 85 during the day and around 70 at night.
Humidity - Shes got moss in her enclosure that keeps moisture in, I try to keep humidity above 40%.
Plants - She has an Asplenium nidus in her enclosure which she's bite every now and then. I've checked for it on recommended plants for chameleons.
Placement - She is on my desk. It is not heavily traveled, but I put her here so I can look at her a lot...
Location - Toronto, Canada
Current Problem - So I am concerned that her caregivers in the pet store have no recollection of her ever having laid eggs, and she also hasn't laid eggs with me. She has always been a bit chunky, I can never tell clearly if she is carrying eggs. I have tried a couple of different laying environments in her enclosure.
1) a 12" flower pot filled with soil in her enclosure (she likes to go down and taste the soil but no action from that...I was concerned it wasn't big enough)
2) A big square container that fit exactly the dimensions of her enclosure. I filled it with play sand. She didn't seem to like it very much.
I worry a lot about her becoming egg bound and dying. I'd be interested to know if anyone can tell based on photos if she needs to lay, and also if anyone has advice for providing a laying environment more conducive to her needs. I've read that her colouring would give it away, but she doesn't have colouring anywhere near as intense as the ones I see in google images.
