MBD?

[Lizzie The Chameleon]

I already know her trick, when ever a
I give her chin scratches she climbs on to my other hand. That's her trick. It can be something simple like last year a fish was trailed to not puff up when he saw his reflection. I could even do things where she won't try to run when I touch her tail. At least she's not very violent or a biter. She only bit me twice but she mistook my fingernail for food, it wasent an angry bite

My Cham does that too!!!

 

[VeiledMathis]

My veiled made crickets disappear

 

[Andee]

I am hoping your class comes to the testing phase within a month or so, once she's reached puberty or her teenage years she could become much more volatile... not saying it's for sure. But it's a possibility. Their personalities can and usually do drastically change during their teenage months. Which is around 6 months to 18 months. Sometimes it's a manageable change, sometimes they become holy terrors. Some do change back to their baby personalities or something similair as they get older... some however continue to be aggressive or whatever change happened and sometimes it even gets worse... just be prepared. And if things take a turn for the worse don't give up, chameleons are amazing and surprisingly... moldable for such stubborn and old world creatures. Though they are extremely adapted for the environment they originally came from... for how well they are doing in captivity for how long humanity has actually tried to make them legitimately thrive in their homes. Already we have made leaps and bounds in captive breeding of species we never thought we had any hope in. So remember, she is amazing and you are blessed to be her caretaker... never take her for granted and she will surprise you every day with more and more of her world.

 

[Mikkimingus]

I am hoping your class comes to the testing phase within a month or so, once she's reached puberty or her teenage years she could become much more volatile... not saying it's for sure. But it's a possibility. Their personalities can and usually do drastically change during their teenage months. Which is around 6 months to 18 months. Sometimes it's a manageable change, sometimes they become holy terrors. Some do change back to their baby personalities or something similair as they get older... some however continue to be aggressive or whatever change happened and sometimes it even gets worse... just be prepared. And if things take a turn for the worse don't give up, chameleons are amazing and surprisingly... moldable for such stubborn and old world creatures. Though they are extremely adapted for the environment they originally came from... for how well they are doing in captivity for how long humanity has actually tried to make them legitimately thrive in their homes. Already we have made leaps and bounds in captive breeding of species we never thought we had any hope in. So remember, she is amazing and you are blessed to be her caretaker... never take her for granted and she will surprise you every day with more and more of her world.

She's only 4 months old

 

[jajeanpierre]

This is why I'm handling her every day when I hand feed her to in sorts "tame" her. When ever I open the door she just crawls and sits on the end of the door and she did it again this morning. She's shy but curious and seems more active for a chameleon. I have her crawling around right now on my bed and she's a warm light green with faint stripes and doesn't mind when I put my hand in front of her for her to crawl on. She does get confused when she tries to climb up my iPad. I just wanted to know if a leaning crest was a sign of early mbd. She has no broken bones or anything that I know of and her eyes aren't sunken in. I did notice this morning when she was going to the bathroom her poop was very liquidy and wondered if that was another sign. The project is basically getting a reptile and keeping it alive for about a month and teaching it a trick. I already know her trick is gonna be when I open the door she goes out on her own since she already does that

The watery poops a big red flag. Sometimes they have more liquid stool because they ate something very moist like hornworms. If they are well hydrated, there is often a lot of clear liquid along with the urates. The crooked crest might be MBD or it might not.

I wonder if you have an understanding of what training means. It is putting a behavior on cue. You have to pick a behavior that the animal naturally does but doesn't always do. If she always climbs up on the door and that is the default behavior you can't put it on cue because she always does it. Or, if you want to put it on cue, you have to first teach her to NOT climb out of the cage.

Think of it this way. You really can't put breathing on cue--they will breathe no matter what you do. However, you might be able to put breath-holding on cue. (Not that I would ever try to teach a chameleon such a complicated behavior!)

I'm not impressed that part of the goal of the course is to keep a reptile alive for a month. That's a pretty low bar.