cruz.m
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So I recently got my chameleon. She is a veiled and I just wanted to know if she’s ok and healthy. I’m mainly focused on her eye once in a while she’ll close one eye and then open it after a few second. It looks a bit weird well I’m not sure since I’m a beginner and I know that they’re not good pets for beginners. They’re a “look but don’t touch” type of pet and everything with their care, diet, etc. but I studied researched and prepared everything to the best of my ability. I noticed that she was sort of afraid of me like whenever I open her cage to fix something or get her cup feeder to feed her she’ll hide from me or run away l, I also noticed she does that every time I mist her unless I place her by my backyard door where there is sunlight but she also does it there sometimes. Apparently they’re supposed to drink water from the leaves and the droplets but she never does or at least I never see her and I’m pretty much always on my desk doing work or whatever I am doing and she’s right next to me. I have the big dripper and I turn it on a few times a day for a couple minutes. She doesn’t always go to drink water and when she does she’s always too slow like she’ll be looking at the water and everything and they fall on a branch and she’ll open her mouth to try and get it but then the droplet falls so she’ll continue that until she gets some or gives up. Whenever I see this I also try and help her and succeed most of the time. I got her crickets and meal worms but I realized the first few days she wouldn’t really eat a lot but I found out that the small crickets were running big at the stores so I figured she got full fast or something. This time I bought her extra small carry out crickets and small meal worms. I dust her crickets with calcium with d3 and without. I usually do without 6 days of the week and with d3 once a week but that’s basically just two weeks since I got her two weeks ago. I’m not exactly sure how old she is probably 3-4 months? I have a uvb and heat/sun lamp but I think I’m gonna replace them for new ones if you guys have any recommendations. Her set up is pretty nice I had moss and dirt but that seemed to attract ants so I took it out and am now gonna replace it with carpet or something but right now there’s a towel but she’s never on the floor. I bought a nice size cage for her since she’s a baby but I plan on getting her a bigger one when she’s older and bigger. I do not have any real plants in there but I want to add some I just don’t know where and what type to get so any advice on that would be good too. At first I let the crickets in there but she would always find a few and the rest would be roaming free and hard to find so I got her a cup which she seemed to figure out. Also at night I turn her lights off and she sleeps fine my mom always gets concerned it’s too cold for her but I read they like a drop in temperature and she falls asleep right away wherever she is last she’ll just plop down curl up and close her eyes which I find so cute. I’m mainly focused on her health with her eye and everything and what I can do if there is something wrong. I don’t really have the money to take her to the vet so if there is any place I could go or any at home remedies or anything I could do that would be great but with everything going on I don’t think I can afford a vet visit especially is nothing is wrong or if something is wrong. Please help and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh and she just bit this hammock thing that I had I’m not sure if there was an animal that she ate but she bit it and chewed so now I’m scared! She’s got some left over shed too it wouldn’t come off so I helped her a bit and got some of it off. I’ll post some picture right now. Oh and her name is Frankie and I’m pretty sure she’s a girl my profile is her sleeping she’s so adorable ?
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