Mildly concerned

[elfbane]

My kami has the wrinkles associated with dehydration but his urate looks fine? He is a stubborn drinker and o have gotten him to drink when I drop it on his lips and he seams to go to the vines under the dripper but I don't know if he's drinking and also his casqe is kinda not straight I got him from a expo in October and I think he's going on a food strike he doesent seem to be growing either so I have some questions how can I raise humidity without a fogger how can I help his calcium intake in case of mbd starting attaching all the pics I have of him since I got him am I just paranoid?

 

[elfbane]

The first one is the most recent and the last one is the week we brought him home

 

[elfbane]

I don't have any updated pics of his in closure he lives with my boyfriend as I'm moving in in 4 weeks and we just left him there so we didn't have him in the winter cold to move him the thing with pink is his free range table I built i have since removed the large drift wood and built two "trees " to give him a higher basking area and more climbing area

 

[Carlton]

If he will drink directly from a hand-held syringe that's great. I love it when my chams learn to do this. You can give him as much water as he'll drink that way. When he's full he'll tip his head straight up, turn away from the dropper and stop drinking. What's the humidity level in the room where his free range is? A cham can drink a lot every day, but if the room is too dry and there's no enclosure to hold in the moisture from misting, he can still end up dehydrated for much of the time. Right now the free range is going to be pretty dry for a cham. Also, be cautious using fake foliage that includes flowers. Veileds are partially vegetarian and he might decide to eat them.

As for MBD, please describe in detail (brands, schedule) your supplement dusting, what you gutload your feeders with, and your lighting. We can't predict if he'll develop MBD without knowing this information.

 

[elfbane]

I'm not sure what his humidity as i dont have a humidomiter is all I can say is his basking point is at 75-83 and he has a dripper as for brand the crickets are fed on fulkers calcium feed his non d3 calcium is reptical and his vitamins with d3 are reptivita which I guess is just reptical and his d3 calcium is fulkers as well another problem is we gave been feeding him meal worms for about 2 weeks because our pet store has been sold out I am stressing the importance of getting him crickets to his current caretaker and my significant other there's no nutritional value and it can cause impaction as long as he does well for the next four weeks I will be there 24/7 to take proper care of him but I'm upset that he's had to eat meal worms for that long

 

[Carlton]

Flukers cricket food is junk and won't help your cham's nutrition much. There are much better gutloads such as Bug Burger, Cricket Crack, and the Repashy foods available from forum sponsors. How often do you dust with each product? That's important. He should be getting plain calcium (no D3) daily. Calcium with D3 once every 2 weeks, and the herp multivitamin once every 2 weeks. Also, what type of UV lighting do you use?

I would guess he is dehydrated now and likely to be more so as time goes on. He'll have more trouble shedding and eye problems if he isn't misted thoroughly on a daily basis. Dehydrated chams usually can't or won't eat as it affects their eyes, tongue control, and digestion.

 

[elfbane]

I have a container with regular calcium and vitamins and one with d3 and vitamins and I alternate every few feedings also I was worried he was I t getting enough vitamins/d3 and sprinkled some into his dripper and shook it idk if he will benefit from that or not I just wanted to insure he was getting them when I'm not there because I know my boyfriend doesn't always dust his food I have to do that for kami and our fat beardie shenron

 

[elfbane]

And the lighting system is a dual bulb Tropical UVB & Heat Lighting Kit we got the chameleon starter cage kit