I've had him for about two weeks. I didn't get him from a petstore... I work at a reptile nature center and someone found him hanging out in a person's backyard, oddly enough. Pretty sure it's a male brevi. He seemed to be fine, except pretty skinny, so I've been feeding him a little more than normal (1/4 inch crickets, occasional housefly and fruit flies). He gobbles them up no prob.
I have him set up in an Exo-terra with a bunch of live plants in varying heights, sticks and twigs and sphagnum moss. He has a heat lamp and a UV lamp. He gets misted heavily twice a day. The house is usually between 73 - 75 degrees, and drops to 72 at night (sometimes I crack the window open because it does quite warm in there and have occasionally woken up to it being somewhat chilly in the room).
Twice now I've come to find the poor little guy white as a ghost and quite unresponsive (always when the heat lamp is off, and the room is chilly). His eyes are closed and both times I thought he was dead. Touching him gets no response. It's only when I try to pull him off his branch that he wakes up (and I put the heat lamp back on to warm him up) and then he changes back to normal colour and seems fine. He has also been turning quite dark (to the point of nearly being black).
Otherwise though, he seems healthy. He has a strong grip, has no problem climbing, is eating well, seems alert and has normal chameleon behaviour, as far as I know anyway (this is my first cham).
Is he just getting too cold? Is this normal? I'd be very sad if the little guy died under my care.
I have him set up in an Exo-terra with a bunch of live plants in varying heights, sticks and twigs and sphagnum moss. He has a heat lamp and a UV lamp. He gets misted heavily twice a day. The house is usually between 73 - 75 degrees, and drops to 72 at night (sometimes I crack the window open because it does quite warm in there and have occasionally woken up to it being somewhat chilly in the room).
Twice now I've come to find the poor little guy white as a ghost and quite unresponsive (always when the heat lamp is off, and the room is chilly). His eyes are closed and both times I thought he was dead. Touching him gets no response. It's only when I try to pull him off his branch that he wakes up (and I put the heat lamp back on to warm him up) and then he changes back to normal colour and seems fine. He has also been turning quite dark (to the point of nearly being black).
Otherwise though, he seems healthy. He has a strong grip, has no problem climbing, is eating well, seems alert and has normal chameleon behaviour, as far as I know anyway (this is my first cham).
Is he just getting too cold? Is this normal? I'd be very sad if the little guy died under my care.
