rcc760
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Hi all. Stressful day for us and Charlie. Here is the info:
Chameleon Info:
Cage Info:
Chameleon Info:
- Your Chameleon Veiled chameleon, female, in my care 2 weeks, assuming 4-5 months old, body is about 4 in long.
- Handling Has yet to let us hold her, occasionally lets us touch her without running, but sometimes she runs.
- Feeding 10-15 medium crickets a day, usually. Haven't tried worms yet. She had no interest in fresh produce.
- Supplements Calc w/o D3 every feeding. So far we've given her reptivite multivitamins once (about a week ago). As I've said, we've had her two weeks.
- Watering Misting about 3-4 times a day, have a dripper as well that's on continuously, lightly
- Fecal Description pretty regular, every other day or so. Feces is brown, maybe a little gray, but seems solid. Have not noticed any cricket bits in it. Urate is nice and white, maybe a little on the watery side.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type Screen ZooMed Reptibreeze enclosure 16" x 16" x 30"
- Lighting 100 watt basking bulb (the 60 that the kit came with was not strong enough and the store didn't have 75. Thought this was fine, but she's been sitting with her mouth open (thermoregulating I hope?) quite often over the past few days, but she doesn't move down from her perch), reptisun 5.0 UVB bulb.
- Temperature Basking temp is between 75 and 80, ambient temp is about 70
- Plants no live plants yet, just artificial ones and some branches. We bought a pothos but it's rather large and doesn't fit well with a laying bin in the cage.
- Placement in my sister's room on a shelf, maybe 5 ft from the ceiling?
- Location - Cold, dry part of Southern California
- Current Problem - Okay, so the last couple days, Charlie has been acting weird. She hasn't been eating nearly as much as she was and I've noticed her hanging out at the bottom of the enclosure a couple times over the past few days, and her color has been kind of dark lately. I'm afraid it's laying time, though she seems really young, hasn't developed any bright blues or oranges, and doesn't seem to be super round in the stomach. Nevertheless, I put a paying bin at the bottom (8" width, 14 in" length, 9" depth with washed playsand up to the top). Today, my sister found her on her side in the laying bin with her eyes open and her skin was brown. When she touched her, she jumped up and crawled into the leaves higher up in the enclosure. My sister said she was holding onto the cord for the temperature gauge part of the thermometer. I'm *thinking* she tried to grab onto it and fell and was probably stunned, but I was not there. I don't know. I'm at work and I'm freaking out. I know the obvious answer is take her to the vet, but we are realizing we don't have reptile vets around here really. We're trying to find one. When we do take her to the vet, what should we transport her in? Also, we haven't really handled her yet, so I can predict it will be a problem to get her into whatever we use to take her in. Please help! Scared cham mama here.
