I've got a 14 month old female panther chameleon in a medium sized screen-sided reptibreeze cage.
She's been picking up a lot of orange and salmon coloring in the past few weeks, and pacing her cage. Today I've caught her multiple times on the floor of her cage. She hasn't put on any "baby weight" as far as I can tell, but I put a lay-box in just in case. She's never laid an infertile clutch - or any clutch - before, so I'm thinking that's probably what will happen?
I've read online, though, that walking on the bottom of the cage can be a sign of MBD, or other health problems. Anybody have any thoughts? This is my first female chameleon, so I'm relatively new to the egg-laying process. If anyone could shed some light on it, or offer a tentative checklist of signs I should be looking for, that would be great!
She eats 10 crickets a day on average, and her hot spot is between 77-80'F. Ambient room temp is 75'F, and she takes crickets dusted with Supercal calcium daily, supervite multivitamin every 10-12 days, calcium with D3 once a week, and superpig carotenoid supplement two to three times a week. Crickets are gut-loaded every other day.
Second picture is a bit yellow, sorry! She's not as orange/salmon as usual right now, but earlier today she had fairly bold salmon across her sides, and vivid tangerine orange under her chin and around her eyes/arms.
She's been picking up a lot of orange and salmon coloring in the past few weeks, and pacing her cage. Today I've caught her multiple times on the floor of her cage. She hasn't put on any "baby weight" as far as I can tell, but I put a lay-box in just in case. She's never laid an infertile clutch - or any clutch - before, so I'm thinking that's probably what will happen?
I've read online, though, that walking on the bottom of the cage can be a sign of MBD, or other health problems. Anybody have any thoughts? This is my first female chameleon, so I'm relatively new to the egg-laying process. If anyone could shed some light on it, or offer a tentative checklist of signs I should be looking for, that would be great!
She eats 10 crickets a day on average, and her hot spot is between 77-80'F. Ambient room temp is 75'F, and she takes crickets dusted with Supercal calcium daily, supervite multivitamin every 10-12 days, calcium with D3 once a week, and superpig carotenoid supplement two to three times a week. Crickets are gut-loaded every other day.
Second picture is a bit yellow, sorry! She's not as orange/salmon as usual right now, but earlier today she had fairly bold salmon across her sides, and vivid tangerine orange under her chin and around her eyes/arms.

