My chameleon is sleeping on the floor
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MelissaB
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It'll help people help you, if you fill out this help form. (I'll copy and paste it here for you) That way you can tell them more info about her, and her set up, and they can try to help figure out what she needs.
Is she old enough to lay eggs? If she is, she might be looking for a place to lay, and needs a laying bin.
Help form:
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
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?
Location - Where are you geographically located?
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
Is she old enough to lay eggs? If she is, she might be looking for a place to lay, and needs a laying bin.
Help form:
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
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?
Location - Where are you geographically located?
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
Veiled chameleon, female,around 1 year idk well, and about 5 months.
I try everyday.
I feed her crickets, around 2 per day but i've been giving her around 5 these last 3 days or so and i caught a fly yesterday a big one and i gave it to her, she caught it, but she started behaving weirdly before i gave her the fly, but tday she looks sleepy and i give her crickets in the morning and at the end of the day usually and i feed them carrots and cabbage.
I dont feed her supplements.
I have a container with water and she drinks from it, i've seen it tons of times, and i spray the plants with filtered water almost everyday, when the humidity is low.
I find it weird that she's been defecating less, idk but the consistency might be less hard cos the terrarium has been more humid.
Her history that i know is that the man at the store used to feed her a lot when she was little, she wouldnt stop until she ate all the crickets she saw, so around 10.
Glass and 60 length and 40 height
I have a uv light(exo terra daylight basking spot 50w) and a heating light(exo terra reptile uvb 13w) and i turn the lights on around 7am sometimes 6 something and rarely 8/9. I let the uvb on until 7 30/8 pm and the heat one i let it on until 1 something usually, but she falls asleep before so is okay i guess.
The range i have is from 20 to 25º celsius and at night it hovers around 20º and during day around 23º
The hygrometer has the words dry moderate and humid and it usually hovers around the 70 and 80 but at night it drops to 90 but she has been used to it, i try to recreate a jungle.
I am indeed, idk the kind though i only know about the coffee plant, i can take pictures.
The cage is in my room, is about 50 inches from the floor.
I live in a city but in a quiet neighborhood with only buses and a few cars passing by.
The current problem is that she's sleeping on the floor, she's done it before but now is more frequent and im concerned with my little baby and she's been more relaxed now and she used to move quite a bit.
I try everyday.
I feed her crickets, around 2 per day but i've been giving her around 5 these last 3 days or so and i caught a fly yesterday a big one and i gave it to her, she caught it, but she started behaving weirdly before i gave her the fly, but tday she looks sleepy and i give her crickets in the morning and at the end of the day usually and i feed them carrots and cabbage.
I dont feed her supplements.
I have a container with water and she drinks from it, i've seen it tons of times, and i spray the plants with filtered water almost everyday, when the humidity is low.
I find it weird that she's been defecating less, idk but the consistency might be less hard cos the terrarium has been more humid.
Her history that i know is that the man at the store used to feed her a lot when she was little, she wouldnt stop until she ate all the crickets she saw, so around 10.
Glass and 60 length and 40 height
I have a uv light(exo terra daylight basking spot 50w) and a heating light(exo terra reptile uvb 13w) and i turn the lights on around 7am sometimes 6 something and rarely 8/9. I let the uvb on until 7 30/8 pm and the heat one i let it on until 1 something usually, but she falls asleep before so is okay i guess.
The range i have is from 20 to 25º celsius and at night it hovers around 20º and during day around 23º
The hygrometer has the words dry moderate and humid and it usually hovers around the 70 and 80 but at night it drops to 90 but she has been used to it, i try to recreate a jungle.
I am indeed, idk the kind though i only know about the coffee plant, i can take pictures.
The cage is in my room, is about 50 inches from the floor.
I live in a city but in a quiet neighborhood with only buses and a few cars passing by.
The current problem is that she's sleeping on the floor, she's done it before but now is more frequent and im concerned with my little baby and she's been more relaxed now and she used to move quite a bit.
mvad
Established Member
I would get a screen enclosure. No need for substrate in a chameleon enclosure. She needs a laying box. Her food/prey should be dusted with calcium every day and 2x a month calcium w/D3 and a multivitamin 2x/month also. She needs suppliments and a virety of feeders in addition to crickets. Dubia roaches, hornworms, silkworms, super-worms are good. Your humidity is too high. Veileds do well in the range from 40~70%. Again get a screen cage/enclosure or you might run into respotory issues if you haven't already. I would suggest reading the attached care sheet:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/veiled/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/veiled/
Not only is it recommended that you dust with a phos.-free calcium powder at almost every feeding and twice a month with a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder and twice a month with a vitamin powder that contains a beta carotene source of vitamin A its important to feed/gutload the insects well. Crickets, roaches, locusts, superworms can be fed a wide assortment of greens such as dandelions, collards, kale, endive, escarole and veggies such as carrots, squash, zucchini, sweet red pepper, sweet potato. Being that you have a veiled chameleon you can offer her the above greens and veggies and a little bit of apple, pear, melon or berries.
Appropriate basking temperatures (low to mid 80'sF for a veiled female) aid in digestion and thus in nutrient absorption.
Exposure to UVB allows the chameleon to produce D3 so we don't have to give it so much D3 supplement (only twice a month, lightly) which can build up in the system and lead to health issues.
Using the vitamin powder with a beta carotene (prOformed) source of vitamin A leaves it up to you to decide if your chameleon needs prEformed vitamin A. PrOformed does not build up in the system but prEformed does.
I would recommend that you remove the moss from the floor of the cage. I worry about impaction if the chameleon ingests some of it.
I would also recommend that you provide her with an opaque container of washed playsand at least 12" deep x 12" x 8" in her cage at all times so she can dig to lay eggs if she needs to. Veiled females can produce eggs without having been mated.
Its usually not good if they are sleeping on the floor of the cage...so it would be good if we can figure out why she's doing it. Is there any evidence that she has been eating the plants or that the insects have? Its important that the plants are non-toxic.
Appropriate basking temperatures (low to mid 80'sF for a veiled female) aid in digestion and thus in nutrient absorption.
Exposure to UVB allows the chameleon to produce D3 so we don't have to give it so much D3 supplement (only twice a month, lightly) which can build up in the system and lead to health issues.
Using the vitamin powder with a beta carotene (prOformed) source of vitamin A leaves it up to you to decide if your chameleon needs prEformed vitamin A. PrOformed does not build up in the system but prEformed does.
I would recommend that you remove the moss from the floor of the cage. I worry about impaction if the chameleon ingests some of it.
I would also recommend that you provide her with an opaque container of washed playsand at least 12" deep x 12" x 8" in her cage at all times so she can dig to lay eggs if she needs to. Veiled females can produce eggs without having been mated.
Its usually not good if they are sleeping on the floor of the cage...so it would be good if we can figure out why she's doing it. Is there any evidence that she has been eating the plants or that the insects have? Its important that the plants are non-toxic.
