Thegreatfonz
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So I just caught Ren eating the branches of his new hibiscus tree. I've read about chameleons eating the leaves and the flowers but never about eating the branches. He's had a hibiscus before and he didn't ever eat that ones branches but this is a much healthier hibiscus than the last. He's chewed rocks and has tried to eat dirt before but now that I've covered that I guess this is his new thing?
Has anyone else heard of it before, my girlfriends freaking out cause she said she watched him rip off about an inch and a half of branch off and swallow it..Then he tried to get more but I just blocked him from getting to the piece he was snapping at..
I'm gonna fill out the husbandry in a sec.
My Chameleon: 7month old, male Panther Chameleon, have had him about 3 months.
Handling:Every day just to get him from free range to cage and I let him wander and I'll handle him if he needs some help.
Feeding: Crickets, Hornworms, silkworms all gutloaded with fruits and veggies and cricket crack
Supplements: Cal w/ d3 1st and 3rd monday of the month, Cal w/o d3 every other feeding, Multivit every 2nd and 4th monday, Vit A once a month.
Watering: Mister on two hour intervals from 8am-4pm for 3minutes each.
Fecal Description: Always brown but its been getting softer.. and he has been a little dehydrated this past week with a pinkish urate yesterday and a white but slightly orange urate today. Also it has been kind of watery.
Cage Info: All screen aluminum enclosure, 24x24x48
Lighting: 1 Reptisun 5.0 UVB lighting and a clamp lamp with a 60w bulb
Temperature: lower cage around 75 top of cage and basking temp 80-85
Humidity: Around 50's when drying and 80's when misted.
Plants: 1 umbrella plant medium size.
Placement: on a shelving unit in the back of the living room next to the kitchen, not near any windows.
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Current Problem:
Renly has been trying to eat rocks,dirt, hibiscus branches and a wooden/bark ladder. His poops have not been the healthiest and his eating has slowed. He only ate 4 medium sized crickets today and I even offered him more before I let him onto the hibiscus to begin with. So why would he ignore crickets and go eat a branch off the hibiscus tree? and he just continued to keep snagging off little pieces of branches and ate them. So we removed him from the tree and cut off and little thing he could bite off leaving only the large branches..
Has anyone else heard of it before, my girlfriends freaking out cause she said she watched him rip off about an inch and a half of branch off and swallow it..Then he tried to get more but I just blocked him from getting to the piece he was snapping at..
I'm gonna fill out the husbandry in a sec.
My Chameleon: 7month old, male Panther Chameleon, have had him about 3 months.
Handling:Every day just to get him from free range to cage and I let him wander and I'll handle him if he needs some help.
Feeding: Crickets, Hornworms, silkworms all gutloaded with fruits and veggies and cricket crack
Supplements: Cal w/ d3 1st and 3rd monday of the month, Cal w/o d3 every other feeding, Multivit every 2nd and 4th monday, Vit A once a month.
Watering: Mister on two hour intervals from 8am-4pm for 3minutes each.
Fecal Description: Always brown but its been getting softer.. and he has been a little dehydrated this past week with a pinkish urate yesterday and a white but slightly orange urate today. Also it has been kind of watery.
Cage Info: All screen aluminum enclosure, 24x24x48
Lighting: 1 Reptisun 5.0 UVB lighting and a clamp lamp with a 60w bulb
Temperature: lower cage around 75 top of cage and basking temp 80-85
Humidity: Around 50's when drying and 80's when misted.
Plants: 1 umbrella plant medium size.
Placement: on a shelving unit in the back of the living room next to the kitchen, not near any windows.
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Current Problem:
Renly has been trying to eat rocks,dirt, hibiscus branches and a wooden/bark ladder. His poops have not been the healthiest and his eating has slowed. He only ate 4 medium sized crickets today and I even offered him more before I let him onto the hibiscus to begin with. So why would he ignore crickets and go eat a branch off the hibiscus tree? and he just continued to keep snagging off little pieces of branches and ate them. So we removed him from the tree and cut off and little thing he could bite off leaving only the large branches..