Hi everyone,
Yesterday my fiancé and I were picking up some new crickets for our veiled Thomas. He had already told me the pet store got some juveniles, so naturally I was very excited to see them.
However, once we got to the terrarium, I got the scare of a lifetime! There were two very small chameleons, who one of the salespeople told us were 6 months old. Yet, Thomas was very small when we got him at six months and a reptile specialist told us he was either underfed or at most four months old. The same things seems to have happened again with the new juveniles. Aside from that, I was shocked to see that one of the juveniles was so brown he seriously looked purple/pink or lavender. The other one was bright green and looked better (you can see in the photo).
Now, I am new at chameleons (we've had Thomas for about a month and a half), but this doesn't look normal to me. Does it to you?
I'm afraid to even say anything to the salespeople or owner, because they seem to feel they know everything about chameleons (I think two of them took a small course in chameleon health and keeping, the other people just take them out forcefully whenever they like). One of them got mad when I came back the day after picking up Thomas because he had forgotten to provide us with UVB or basking lights. I was ready to just buy the little guy and get him to a vet, but my fiancé wouldn't let me. What should I do?
