my chameleon is acting strange?????

[nosywhat]

he rarely sits on his branches he just climbs all over the screen...and he wont eat hardley anything except mealworms

 

[kinyonga]

Please describe the cage setup and his husbandry so we can have a better chance at figuring out why.

 

[nosywhat]

not sure what husbandry means???.... but he is in a good size screen cage 18 by 12 by 20 and i have the temp around 80 dagrees and the humididty at 65 to 75 % i mist his cage like 4 times a day and i have a ficus tree in the cage and a heat lamp ive checked the temp under it on the closest branch and it gets to about 98 or 99 dagrees and i let about 10 crickets roam in the cage freely at a time and he wont eat em he just climbs on the screen all day??????????????? he is a nosy be panther and hes about 5 and 1/2 inches total....what am i doing wrong...i have some even smaller babys and they dont act like this???????????? and my bigger nosy is in a seprat cage with vision dividers?????????????????????????

 

[kinyonga]

Is he pooping? Do you have a substrate in the cage?

Are you dusting the insects with any supplements? Which supplements and how often? Do you feed the insects a nutritous diet and gutload them? Feed what? Gutload with what?

 

[nosywhat]

i feed the crickets fuckers i dust them every 2 day with vitams and calcieum i think the name is repti cal and substrate meaning on the bottom of his cage??? if so i have moss at the bottom... and yeah he poops but all he eats is meal worms

 

[chameloman72]

WOOPS, I think you meant Flucker's!!LOL

 

[Julirs]

Fluker's! Oh my...
DO you have UVB lighting?

If he is not eating he is not happy about something. Can he see your other chameleons? Are the other chameleons all in the same cage?

 

[kinyonga]

I would worry about impaction with moss. I don't use anything on the floor of cages for arboreal chameleons. If he's pooping, then he shouldn't be impacted though.

 

[nosywhat]

impaction????

 

[kinyonga]

Impaction...blockage of the intestinal tract. Many of the things that are used as substrates can cause impaction....but then there is no pooping when a chameleon is impacted.

 

[nosywhat]

he shits alot