Chameleon Info:
• Your Chameleon – Male Veiled Chameleon, about 6 months, We have had him since November ‘09 and he was three months old then.
• Handling – almost never
• Feeding – We feed him mostly crickets and phoenix worms. We keep food in the cage all the time but he eats about 8-12 crickets or 8-10 phoenix worms. We feed him in the morning and more in the afternoon if those are gone. No gutloading for the phoenix worms and Flukers orange cubes, oranges, kale, or apples for the crickets. He eats out of a cup but will "hunt" crickets if they jump out.
• Supplements – Rep-cal with D3 daily. Sticky Tongue Farms Miner-all once a week.
• Watering – Drip for 10 mins and Mist for 2 mins twice daily. Rarely see the chameleon drinking.
• Fecal Description – Never been tested. Urates are almost white (very very light yellow), droppings are solid and dark brown, kind of moist.
• History – No other health problems that we know about. We got him at the Reptile Expo from Tiki Tiki Reptiles.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – All screen, 16”x16”x30”, no substrate
• Lighting – 12 hours light and dark, Reptsun 5.0 by zoo med, and 60watt household light bulb encased in a silver dome thing to reflect the light into the cage for basking area.
• Temperature – 92 F at the basking spot, 75-80 F in the rest of the cage, and 68-70 at night. All measured with a zoo-med thermometer
• Humidity – not sure, we live in the desert so we try and keep it fairly moist by misting occasionally.
• Plants – We have two plants in the cage, umbrella and pothos. There also bamboo sticks, and T-Rex Bio Vines small and medium for him to climb on.
• Placement – The cage is in the corner of a bedroom (very low traffic) away from fans and vents, the top of the cage is only about 4 feet from the ground.
• Location – Tempe AZ
Current Problem – Our cham has a small white-ish ring around his eyeball which seems to be dry, we noticed him scratching it on a branch/vine and also using his hand? to scratch it. His eye lid has a small indent that was really dry and that looked a lot worse until I sprayed/misted him with water. Now it looks a little bit better but still a small indent. We are worried about his hydration. This is our first cham so we don’t know a ton about them. What is showering? We usually only spray his plants and cage because he always flinches when we spray him directly. Since he looked so dry I sprayed him and he didn’t seem to mind it too much and just walked away slowly. Should he be able to drink directly from the dripping tube or just off the leaves? Also he doesn’t seem very big compared to other chams at pet stores his same age. He is roughly 2.5-3” from nose to vent. Also anything else you would like to comment on about how we keep him would be greatly appreciated!
• Your Chameleon – Male Veiled Chameleon, about 6 months, We have had him since November ‘09 and he was three months old then.
• Handling – almost never
• Feeding – We feed him mostly crickets and phoenix worms. We keep food in the cage all the time but he eats about 8-12 crickets or 8-10 phoenix worms. We feed him in the morning and more in the afternoon if those are gone. No gutloading for the phoenix worms and Flukers orange cubes, oranges, kale, or apples for the crickets. He eats out of a cup but will "hunt" crickets if they jump out.
• Supplements – Rep-cal with D3 daily. Sticky Tongue Farms Miner-all once a week.
• Watering – Drip for 10 mins and Mist for 2 mins twice daily. Rarely see the chameleon drinking.
• Fecal Description – Never been tested. Urates are almost white (very very light yellow), droppings are solid and dark brown, kind of moist.
• History – No other health problems that we know about. We got him at the Reptile Expo from Tiki Tiki Reptiles.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – All screen, 16”x16”x30”, no substrate
• Lighting – 12 hours light and dark, Reptsun 5.0 by zoo med, and 60watt household light bulb encased in a silver dome thing to reflect the light into the cage for basking area.
• Temperature – 92 F at the basking spot, 75-80 F in the rest of the cage, and 68-70 at night. All measured with a zoo-med thermometer
• Humidity – not sure, we live in the desert so we try and keep it fairly moist by misting occasionally.
• Plants – We have two plants in the cage, umbrella and pothos. There also bamboo sticks, and T-Rex Bio Vines small and medium for him to climb on.
• Placement – The cage is in the corner of a bedroom (very low traffic) away from fans and vents, the top of the cage is only about 4 feet from the ground.
• Location – Tempe AZ
Current Problem – Our cham has a small white-ish ring around his eyeball which seems to be dry, we noticed him scratching it on a branch/vine and also using his hand? to scratch it. His eye lid has a small indent that was really dry and that looked a lot worse until I sprayed/misted him with water. Now it looks a little bit better but still a small indent. We are worried about his hydration. This is our first cham so we don’t know a ton about them. What is showering? We usually only spray his plants and cage because he always flinches when we spray him directly. Since he looked so dry I sprayed him and he didn’t seem to mind it too much and just walked away slowly. Should he be able to drink directly from the dripping tube or just off the leaves? Also he doesn’t seem very big compared to other chams at pet stores his same age. He is roughly 2.5-3” from nose to vent. Also anything else you would like to comment on about how we keep him would be greatly appreciated!
