Just wondering

[Gotti]

I'm a fairly new cham owner and I was wondering If some of you cham experts could read over my "How to ask for help" and give me any tips or advice, and look at the pictures and see how my little guy looks


Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled, male 3 1/2-4 1/2 months I've had him for about three weeks
Handling - Couple times a week mainly to take him outside
Feeding - I feed him about 20 small crickets a day with a mixture of meal worms and wax worms I tried Dubia Crickets but he ate one and then showed no interest in the rest. I feed them fluckers dry and orange cube gutload with some carrots apples oranges and every now and then some romaine lettuce
Supplements -I use Zoo Med Repti calcium w/o d3, and Rep-Cal Calcium w d3 and multivit, I use calcium w/o d3 everyday and multi and Cal w d3 i rotate every saturday
Watering - I have a dripper constantly and mist 3-5 times a day, rarely do i see him drink
Fecal Description -His droppings are large and solid and urate is a good white
History - N/A

Cage Info:All screen, 18x18x36
Cage Type - Lighting - 50 watt basking bulb 5.0 repti glow uvb light, both come on at 7 AM and go off at 8 PM
Temperature - His basking spot ranges between 78-85 depending on outside temps
Plants - I'm trying to nurse a pothos plant back to life to put in his cage
Placement - My cage is in my room low traffic and the top of the cage is over my head and I'm 6'2
Location - I live in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I would add dowels or branches of varied size, from side to side. And use bio vines for up and down climbing. This will greatly reduce the screen climbing.

 

[DavidBuchan]

He looks healthy, and the basics are all there. I too suggest adding some smaller branches, also live plants won't hurt (make sure they are not poisonous of course). You could look into gutloads a bit more, to mix in more high calcium things.......
Here's a list from another member (ferretinmyshoes) -

How do you chose what to use? Gutloading ingredients should be chosen that are higher in calcium than phosphorus. High phosphorus levels in the food impedes calcium absorption. Inadequate dietary calcium leads to metabolic bone disease. Commercially available gutloads (such as Fluker Farms Cricket Food) are not balanced or sufficient for good nutrition in any species. Ideally there should be a wet and dry component to your gut load:

Good Wet Gutloading Ingredients: dandelion leaves, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, escarole lettuce, butternut squash, carrots, mango, alfalfa sprouts, oranges, blueberries, raspberries, sweet potato, strawberries, hibiscus leaves and flowers, papaya

Good Dry Gutload Ingredients: bee pollen, alfalfa powder, kelp powder, brewer’s yeast, wheat germ, raw uncooked sunflower seeds, raw uncooked pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, small amounts of whole grain cereals, spirulina algae, tortoise pellets

Foods to AVOID: Broccoli, spinach, beets, and parsley, have large amounts of oxalic acids which bind calcium absorption. Lettuces and cabbage do not have any significant nutritional value. Also, avoid things like dog food, cat food, and fish flakes which are high in animal proteins which can cause kidney damage. Feeding such things like pinky-mice, fuzzies, and feeder anoles that are extremely high in fat and protein content is harmful to your chameleon's health, bones and organs that can lead to serious illnesses like gout, edema, organ failure and fatality.