Gobbledeegook
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Chameleon Info:
Cage Info:
Current Problem - I just moved him to this cage a couple of days ago which I assume stressed him out pretty bad. He is displaying very dark colours, not moving around much, had a runny poop, and holds his body very close to the branch. He is still interested in food and water and moves across the cage at night to sleep. I think he's not too brutally stressed as he still eats and stuff but I don't want him to get any worse. Is there any way to ease his stress? Currently I'm just giving him as much space as possible and just leaving him alone.
- Your Chameleon - Male Ambilobe -Sambava cross panther chameleon, 5.5 months old, has been in my care for 3 weeks.
- Handling - Only when absolutely necessary
- Feeding - : 10-15 3 week old crickets every day, gutloaded with repashy superload (wet and dry)
- Supplements - repti-calcium: w/o d3- monday to friday- every other sunday I alternate between repti-calcium w/d3 and Repashy supervite.
- Watering - i use a reptirain that mists every 3 hours for 30 seconds, i also mist thoroughly in the morning and afternoon. I see him drinking and every couple of days I offer him water from a syringe which he laps up
- Fecal Description - usually his poops are two nice even dark brown turds with a white chalky urate. Since he is stressed at the moment his poop yesterday was runny, dark brown with a white chalky urate.
- History: I just got him 3 weeks ago from Chronic Chameleons.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Medium reptibreeze. Dimensions would be roughly 3 feet tall - 1-1/2 feet wide.
- Lighting - UVB tropical 10.0 ( given to me by the breeder, unsure of the brand) hooked up to a timer so it's on for 12 hours each day. Also a 50 watt red heat bulb that stays on 24 hours.
- Temperature - cage floor : 75 degrees, basking spot-85-95 depending on where he sits. Lowest overnight temp would be high 60's around 69 degrees. I use a digital thermometer in the basking spot and an analog thermometer for the ambient temps.
- Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?: humidity stays between 60%-70% (spiking at 80% during a misting) I measure humidity with an analog hygrometer (i know I know, I'll get a digital one)
- Plants - Ficus, pothos and draceana as well as some fake plants and vines
- Placement - : cage is located in my personal room (i do not sleep in there) the air vent is about 4 feet from the cage, it's an extremely low traffic room with only me poking around every few hours or so. The top of the cage is just under six feet off of the floor.
- Location - Fraser valley, BC Canada
Current Problem - I just moved him to this cage a couple of days ago which I assume stressed him out pretty bad. He is displaying very dark colours, not moving around much, had a runny poop, and holds his body very close to the branch. He is still interested in food and water and moves across the cage at night to sleep. I think he's not too brutally stressed as he still eats and stuff but I don't want him to get any worse. Is there any way to ease his stress? Currently I'm just giving him as much space as possible and just leaving him alone.
