VeiledOwner87
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Female C. Calyptratus, 1.5 years old. Been in my care for about a month, has been in captive care with owner since 9 months of age.
Handling - everyday for medicine injections, hydration shower (if needed), shes a wonderfully tamed chameleon who does not stress at all when being handled.
Feeding - wax worms and silkworms, will not budge on crickets or meal worms? 3 each feeding? once every 3 days? for crickets (dry food, and gutload salad), silk chow for silkworms, waxworms none since i refrigerate them?
Supplements - Rep-cal with and without D3, Exo-Terra multivitamin with beta carotene, no vitamin a? calcium suppliment has not been given due to daily calcium gluconate injections
Watering - hydration showers, garden pump mistings, she drank today right from the misting nozzle, so i wil; thirst her like that from now on.
Fecal Description - dark fecal compacted together and wet when dropped (not runny) has been small in size lately due to appetite. urates go from snow white to light orange from days to days. no fecals have been done but in self examination of droppings nothing seems abnormal. (How fresh does a sample have to be to get a test done?)
History - Was bought at pet shop in London Ontario. no previous breeding, has always been very tame, healthy and active.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Housed in laying bin 1'3''d x 1'6''w x 1'9''h recycle box.
Lighting - Exo-Terra 5.0 CFL (year late 2009) cfl is due to space.
Temperature - around 95 max basking(depends on how far the light is), ambient 75-85,
Humidity - im dont have an extra hygrometer, but being the enclosure the dryest humidity read would be around 40-50%, it never got below 30 in her 38g screen cage. i use a garden pump for mistings, and give her a shower about 2-3 times a week.
Plants - was using a hibiscus but it died, fake plants at the moment.
Placement - in my bedroom next to the large veiled vivarium? it gets hot so i have a ceiling fan going to circulate air, as well as isolating fan when room temps wont stay down.? it is maybe a 1'1/2 off the ground with no view of the outside. (i believe she cannot tell how high she is.) it is not located in a high traffic area what so ever
Location - Windsor Ontario, Southern Canada.
Current Problem - She has been very healthy, active and eating. But has had sunken eyes the past few days, i take it due to dehydration. her urates have been decently white some days, then slight orange the others. she drank very well today from my mister. although when i went to check up on her, she had foam on the side of her mouth, not alot, but as i investigated the area she was in, there was regurgitation on the branch and leaves. she hasnt done this at all. at least not to my knowledge. her grip is still well and she is very active. she has been walking around and climbing on the top screen.
She started digging 3-4 days ago, but stopped and hasnt again. my doctor gave me a dosage of oxytocin to see if perhaps this would help. We tried oxytocin about 3 weeks ago. She has also been on liquid Calcium Gluconate (1ml a day) at doctors instructions. she has totaly lost interest in crickets, but will give her 3 wax worms or if i go out i will give her a silkworm and 2 wax worms, every 3 days.
Your Chameleon - Female C. Calyptratus, 1.5 years old. Been in my care for about a month, has been in captive care with owner since 9 months of age.
Handling - everyday for medicine injections, hydration shower (if needed), shes a wonderfully tamed chameleon who does not stress at all when being handled.
Feeding - wax worms and silkworms, will not budge on crickets or meal worms? 3 each feeding? once every 3 days? for crickets (dry food, and gutload salad), silk chow for silkworms, waxworms none since i refrigerate them?
Supplements - Rep-cal with and without D3, Exo-Terra multivitamin with beta carotene, no vitamin a? calcium suppliment has not been given due to daily calcium gluconate injections
Watering - hydration showers, garden pump mistings, she drank today right from the misting nozzle, so i wil; thirst her like that from now on.
Fecal Description - dark fecal compacted together and wet when dropped (not runny) has been small in size lately due to appetite. urates go from snow white to light orange from days to days. no fecals have been done but in self examination of droppings nothing seems abnormal. (How fresh does a sample have to be to get a test done?)
History - Was bought at pet shop in London Ontario. no previous breeding, has always been very tame, healthy and active.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Housed in laying bin 1'3''d x 1'6''w x 1'9''h recycle box.
Lighting - Exo-Terra 5.0 CFL (year late 2009) cfl is due to space.
Temperature - around 95 max basking(depends on how far the light is), ambient 75-85,
Humidity - im dont have an extra hygrometer, but being the enclosure the dryest humidity read would be around 40-50%, it never got below 30 in her 38g screen cage. i use a garden pump for mistings, and give her a shower about 2-3 times a week.
Plants - was using a hibiscus but it died, fake plants at the moment.
Placement - in my bedroom next to the large veiled vivarium? it gets hot so i have a ceiling fan going to circulate air, as well as isolating fan when room temps wont stay down.? it is maybe a 1'1/2 off the ground with no view of the outside. (i believe she cannot tell how high she is.) it is not located in a high traffic area what so ever
Location - Windsor Ontario, Southern Canada.
Current Problem - She has been very healthy, active and eating. But has had sunken eyes the past few days, i take it due to dehydration. her urates have been decently white some days, then slight orange the others. she drank very well today from my mister. although when i went to check up on her, she had foam on the side of her mouth, not alot, but as i investigated the area she was in, there was regurgitation on the branch and leaves. she hasnt done this at all. at least not to my knowledge. her grip is still well and she is very active. she has been walking around and climbing on the top screen.
She started digging 3-4 days ago, but stopped and hasnt again. my doctor gave me a dosage of oxytocin to see if perhaps this would help. We tried oxytocin about 3 weeks ago. She has also been on liquid Calcium Gluconate (1ml a day) at doctors instructions. she has totaly lost interest in crickets, but will give her 3 wax worms or if i go out i will give her a silkworm and 2 wax worms, every 3 days.
but i basically have to elevate my eyeballs out of my skull from like a foot away from her cage just to check up on her lol. at least thats what it feels like. when she is walking around on the ground i never disturb her at all. ive read they have a "sence" of preds in the wild. so myth or fact i dont make myself visable and tip toe around my room when shes roaming on the ground. i try and make as less vibrations of anysort as possible
