Flapnecked69
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My cham is a male flap necked, about 1 year or 18 months old acording to the person who sold it to me. It has been only 5 days with me.
I handled him daily but not for a long period of time, only about 3 or 5 minutes.
I placed some medium sized crikets on the cage, but he would not eat them, there were like 8 of them the first time i gave him food, all of them were untouched, so i decided to hand feed him 2 crikets, he are them with no problem at all.
I was using this green multi vitamin supplement to feed the crickets, and i also poudered one of the crickets i gave the cham with some calcium.
I misted the cham and cage like 3 times a day te first days i had him, and i kept the cham wet also, i didnt use any drippers the first days cause i thought the misting would be enough but then after the 2 day i decide to make a dripping sistem, the chan seem to drink water out of it. But that happened very few times.
I have never seeb him poop, i dont know how his fecal description is, but recently i found this brown thing on a piece of paper with some yellow and white thing stuck to it. I have never tested him for parasites.
I asked the person that sold it to me and they said it wa wild caught.
I ddnt know how the caged had to be, but we had this 30x23x12 fish tank so i took it and used it for my cham.
I had only a heat lamp, and i took the chan to get outside sunlight, i eas very desorganized with the light hours, they were never 12 straight hours. The day before he got sick i didnt had him receiving straight sunlight. Its a 75w lighbulb.
Here in FL temps are high in the 80s, i dont have any temometer or anything, i didnt have a humidity checker also, i only had real wet moss i had bought in this reptile store. They told me it was good for chameleons. At night temps could decreas to 70s.
I tried to always keep the place humid by misting constant water on the cham and the fish tanks, at the bottom it was very wet. I didn have something to measure the humidity. It was high tho.
I had some fake plant and a thin tree branch with some leaves, it was only decorational.
I had him outside during the day, he was on a table. And at night i placed him inside the garage, close to the machine, but i could see hi slept with no problem at all. I only did this for 2 or 3 days, the other days i kept the tank outside in the table.
I live in florida, close to georgia
My cham is been throwing up, he slept during the days, now it dificult for him to open his eyes, he has poor grip, he wont drink water or eat food. He is very skinny now compared to the first days i had him. I can tell he is very week. Now i made this screen cage and he is placed outside taking some air insted of the fish tank. What can i give him to make him feel better again? Is he going to die? Is there really anything i can do to save him? All help will be appreiated
Thanks for reading.
I handled him daily but not for a long period of time, only about 3 or 5 minutes.
I placed some medium sized crikets on the cage, but he would not eat them, there were like 8 of them the first time i gave him food, all of them were untouched, so i decided to hand feed him 2 crikets, he are them with no problem at all.
I was using this green multi vitamin supplement to feed the crickets, and i also poudered one of the crickets i gave the cham with some calcium.
I misted the cham and cage like 3 times a day te first days i had him, and i kept the cham wet also, i didnt use any drippers the first days cause i thought the misting would be enough but then after the 2 day i decide to make a dripping sistem, the chan seem to drink water out of it. But that happened very few times.
I have never seeb him poop, i dont know how his fecal description is, but recently i found this brown thing on a piece of paper with some yellow and white thing stuck to it. I have never tested him for parasites.
I asked the person that sold it to me and they said it wa wild caught.
I ddnt know how the caged had to be, but we had this 30x23x12 fish tank so i took it and used it for my cham.
I had only a heat lamp, and i took the chan to get outside sunlight, i eas very desorganized with the light hours, they were never 12 straight hours. The day before he got sick i didnt had him receiving straight sunlight. Its a 75w lighbulb.
Here in FL temps are high in the 80s, i dont have any temometer or anything, i didnt have a humidity checker also, i only had real wet moss i had bought in this reptile store. They told me it was good for chameleons. At night temps could decreas to 70s.
I tried to always keep the place humid by misting constant water on the cham and the fish tanks, at the bottom it was very wet. I didn have something to measure the humidity. It was high tho.
I had some fake plant and a thin tree branch with some leaves, it was only decorational.
I had him outside during the day, he was on a table. And at night i placed him inside the garage, close to the machine, but i could see hi slept with no problem at all. I only did this for 2 or 3 days, the other days i kept the tank outside in the table.
I live in florida, close to georgia
My cham is been throwing up, he slept during the days, now it dificult for him to open his eyes, he has poor grip, he wont drink water or eat food. He is very skinny now compared to the first days i had him. I can tell he is very week. Now i made this screen cage and he is placed outside taking some air insted of the fish tank. What can i give him to make him feel better again? Is he going to die? Is there really anything i can do to save him? All help will be appreiated
Thanks for reading.