Species: Veiled Chameleon
Sex: Male
Age: 6 months young
How long has it been in your care?
5 months
How often do you handle your chameleon?
As often as I have to. 1 time a week or less. Just when I need him out of his cage.
What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
As I don't feed him from hand I don't have a schedule. I give him more when I see he ate the earlier ones. I'm feeding him mostly crickets and yellow mealworms. Sometimes an ocasional barn funnel weaver/domestic house spider (which he eats almost instantly) and flies. I feed the crickets with fruit and lettuce. And yellow mealworms get flour, as it's their preferred food. Supposedly.
He used to eat 6 half-inch crickets a day. Now it's chaos. He refuses to eat them. He eats a few mealworms per day.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
JBL MicroCalcium and JBL TerraVit. They're both powder. I used to dust at least one a day with calcium. Used TerraVit sometimes. Once a week maybe and when did it was mixed with calcium.
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
I mist and mist and mist. Chameleon drinks off of walls, branches and leaves. Walls preferably. And I sprinkle the wall until he's done drinking. I mist the cage everyday at least once. To keep the humidity at least at 60%.
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings.
Black and white. Or dark brown. Well there are big ones 1 cm x 0,5 cm black droppings. And those little white with a spot of yellow ones. Both rather hard.
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
I don't think so.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
Glass with grille for ventilation. Bought at a shop. 50cm x 30 cm x 40cm. At the moment building a bigger one. Cause this one's getting too small.
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
ExoTerra: SunGlo 50W, ReptiGlo 13W 5.0 UVB. I use the SunGlo in mid day for few hours. All the other time I use the ReptiGlo. Used to turn it off for night, but as I was afraid he was getting sick I left it turned on during night, the last few days.
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
Have a small thermometer. It ranges from 19 during night to 34 celcius in basking spot. Don't know about temp range in the cage...
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
60-70% sometimes 80% and rarely 40-50%. I mist. And there's a small humidity meter.
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
I bring some Buxus branches with leafs from the outside.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
On the window sill. No high traffic. 2 meters.
Location - Where are you geographically located?
Central Europe- Poland.
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
Lack of apetite and interest in substrate.
You’ve resurrected quite an old thread…from 2011! There can be different reasons why your guy may be digging - he may be a she, may not like his enclosure, has seen a stray crickets or other bug in the substrate, etc etc. To better try to help you figure it out, can you post some pics of him and his entire enclosure? I won’t be around until later tonight, so others can help you out.
