JaclynCali
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? Panther, male, 7 months old, and he's been in my care 3 months.
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? Usually every other day to take him outside to sunbathe.
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? He eats crickets, hornworms, silkies, dubias, and gets giant meal worms twice a wk as a treat. He usually eats 5-6 med crickets along with 2-3 hornworms a day. He hasn't wanted dubias for a wk or so but I usually switch off from crickets to dubias. He eats every morning about an hr after he's been awake and misted. I gut-load with bug burger, fruits, and veggies (papaya, apples, carrots, spinach, collard greens, dandelion greens, and kale.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? I dust with Repashy's cal/ vit plus supplement every feeding.
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? I have a dripper going 12 hrs a day. He gets misted all throughout the day (usually every other hr for 2 mins straight). I see him drink every day off the leaf his dripper drips on.
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? His stool looks normal and his urates are white but have been really runny the past week. He hasn't been tested for parasites.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? Screen cage, 24x24x48
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? 50w exto terra daylight basking bulb and I recently just switched the UVB bulb from zoomed's 5.0 to the Arcadia T5. Lights on from 7-7.
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? His basking spot stays between 85-88 degrees. The ambient temp stays around 75 and drops to 70 at night. I have 2 digital thermometers in his cage, one sits to the right of his basking and the other is at the bottom of his cage.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? I recently just moved to AZ and we're going through monsoon season right now so the humidity hasn't dropped below 60. It usually fluctuates between 60-75%. I don't have a mister in the cage yet but I do mist all throughout the day and I've been leaving the windows open and letting the humidity from outside come in.
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? There is a Pothos, Croton, Umbrella, and Ficus in his cage.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? My chams have their own room, away from the vent/high traffic, and the cage is about 3ft off the floor.
Location - Where are you geographically located? Arizona (an hr out of Vegas)
Current Problem - After I moved (about 3 wks ago) I noticed that his right eye looked weird. He sucks it in and tries to clean it but after he's done, his eyelid looks almost out of shape. When he focuses on food, his right eye looks like it can't stare straight ahead like his left. I started misting a lot more, put him in the shower a few times, and tried flushing his eye out with saline but nothing seemed to help. I thought it might be a vit A deficiency so I bought liquid vit A and started adding 2 tiny drops to his food. A few days later I noticed he was gaping a lot throughout the day and was able to see he had some stringy saliva in his mouth so I took him to a herp vet. His eye of course looked normal at the vets office so she didn't really have much to say about that but did say she suspected him to have the beginning symptoms of a URI so she put him on .4 units of baytril for 10 days (he weighs 89 grams). He's been on it now for 3 days and I feel like his eye is getting worse. He kept it shut most of the day today while his left eye looked perfectly normal. ANY advice is much appreciated! I don't want him to get worse.
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? Panther, male, 7 months old, and he's been in my care 3 months.
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? Usually every other day to take him outside to sunbathe.
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? He eats crickets, hornworms, silkies, dubias, and gets giant meal worms twice a wk as a treat. He usually eats 5-6 med crickets along with 2-3 hornworms a day. He hasn't wanted dubias for a wk or so but I usually switch off from crickets to dubias. He eats every morning about an hr after he's been awake and misted. I gut-load with bug burger, fruits, and veggies (papaya, apples, carrots, spinach, collard greens, dandelion greens, and kale.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? I dust with Repashy's cal/ vit plus supplement every feeding.
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? I have a dripper going 12 hrs a day. He gets misted all throughout the day (usually every other hr for 2 mins straight). I see him drink every day off the leaf his dripper drips on.
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? His stool looks normal and his urates are white but have been really runny the past week. He hasn't been tested for parasites.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? Screen cage, 24x24x48
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? 50w exto terra daylight basking bulb and I recently just switched the UVB bulb from zoomed's 5.0 to the Arcadia T5. Lights on from 7-7.
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? His basking spot stays between 85-88 degrees. The ambient temp stays around 75 and drops to 70 at night. I have 2 digital thermometers in his cage, one sits to the right of his basking and the other is at the bottom of his cage.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? I recently just moved to AZ and we're going through monsoon season right now so the humidity hasn't dropped below 60. It usually fluctuates between 60-75%. I don't have a mister in the cage yet but I do mist all throughout the day and I've been leaving the windows open and letting the humidity from outside come in.
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? There is a Pothos, Croton, Umbrella, and Ficus in his cage.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? My chams have their own room, away from the vent/high traffic, and the cage is about 3ft off the floor.
Location - Where are you geographically located? Arizona (an hr out of Vegas)
Current Problem - After I moved (about 3 wks ago) I noticed that his right eye looked weird. He sucks it in and tries to clean it but after he's done, his eyelid looks almost out of shape. When he focuses on food, his right eye looks like it can't stare straight ahead like his left. I started misting a lot more, put him in the shower a few times, and tried flushing his eye out with saline but nothing seemed to help. I thought it might be a vit A deficiency so I bought liquid vit A and started adding 2 tiny drops to his food. A few days later I noticed he was gaping a lot throughout the day and was able to see he had some stringy saliva in his mouth so I took him to a herp vet. His eye of course looked normal at the vets office so she didn't really have much to say about that but did say she suspected him to have the beginning symptoms of a URI so she put him on .4 units of baytril for 10 days (he weighs 89 grams). He's been on it now for 3 days and I feel like his eye is getting worse. He kept it shut most of the day today while his left eye looked perfectly normal. ANY advice is much appreciated! I don't want him to get worse.