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[PaulTB]

Well as of the past couple of days my female panther chameleon has been very dark almost black and its worrying me i tried to go near her before to take her out and she puffed up in 2 seconds and started gapping and actually hissed for the first time since ive had her i have no idea what is wrong with could this be a health problem or could it be that she has eggs to lay im trying to figure out a way to get pictures up but i cant find the cd i need in order to take them from my gf's camera in order to put them up

 

[coldbloodedAL]

Please fill out the "How to ask for help" form found in the health section.
sounds like it may be too cold, but please fill the form out so we can take a look at things

 

[PaulTB]

Your Chameleon - panther, age a year in a month,female , and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Handling - havent held her at all in a couple of months
Feeding - about 15 crickets once in a while a silk worm or meal worm, forget what the stuff is called there like green cubes?
Supplements - repashy i only dust the crickets once before feeding?
Watering - hand held mister? about 30 sec or until there is water dripping off the leaves all around the cage, Do you see your chameleon drinking? yes
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings(brown/white) Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?no i dont have any reptile vets any where close to me which saddens me
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:12x12x18
Cage Type - screen) What are the dimensions?12x12x18
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
Temperature - 80 degrees in basking and the bottom is about 65 70 (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp?60degrees How do you measure these temps?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels?60 How are you creating and maintaining these levels? yes What do you use to measure humidity? hydrometer
Plants - Are you using live plants?no If so, what kind?
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas?no At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?5 ft
Location - Where are you geographically located? ny

Current Problem - She has been almost black for the past couple of days and i cant figure out whats wrong with her not sure if she has to lay eggs but for the first time i went to go see if i can get her out of the cage and she puffed up within 2 seconds started gapping and hissing for the first time if anyone can help it would be much appreciated but most of her body is dark besides a couple of spots which are a peachy pink color

 

[coldbloodedAL]

Your Chameleon - panther, age a year in a month,female , and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Handling - havent held her at all in a couple of months
Feeding - about 15 crickets once in a while a silk worm or meal worm, forget what the stuff is called there like green cubes?Flukers water gel? That has literally no nutritional value, you should be gutloading with much more. Member Sandrachameleon has excellent blogs on gutloading, and there are some decent comercially available gutloads(Repashy bugburger, cricket crack
Supplements - repashy i only dust the crickets once before feeding?
before every feeding?
Watering - hand held mister? about 30 sec or until there is water dripping off the leaves all around the cage, Do you see your chameleon drinking? yes
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings(brown/white) Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?no i dont have any reptile vets any where close to me which saddens me
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:12x12x18
Cage Type - screen) What are the dimensions?12x12x18
This cage is WAY too small for her at her age, she she be moved to at least a 18x18x36" cage.
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?forgot these? Please answer this, very important
Temperature - 80 degrees in basking and the bottom is about 65 70 (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp?60degrees How do you measure these temps?
80 is a little too cool, raise it to 83-85..... How do you measure these temps?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels?60 How are you creating and maintaining these levels? yes What do you use to measure humidity? hydrometer
Plants - Are you using live plants?no If so, what kind?
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas?no At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?5 ft
Location - Where are you geographically located? ny

Current Problem - She has been almost black for the past couple of days and i cant figure out whats wrong with her not sure if she has to lay eggs but for the first time i went to go see if i can get her out of the cage and she puffed up within 2 seconds started gapping and hissing for the first time if anyone can help it would be much appreciated but most of her body is dark besides a couple of spots which are a peachy pink color

Answers are in red.
Gutloading your feeders is a essential part in keeping your chameleon healthy, green flukers cubes have no nutritional value. What your feeders eat, your chameleon eats.
And again that cage is wayyy too small.
She is around the age where she may start to develope eggs. She will need a laying bin asap. Its best to keep it with her from here on out just to be safe. Member Dez has an excellent video on laying bins, please take a look.

 

[Elizadolots]

Dark with peachy spots sounds gravid to me.....you can't put a laying bin in that small a cage so you might be better off converting a large trash can for her use.

jannb has an excellent blog post explaining how she sets up her laying bins:https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/jannb/345-egg-laying-laying-bin.html

 

[PaulTB]

i dont use flukers i forget wth is called. Sorry i measured it wrong by far 16inch length by 16 inch wide and 29 3/4 height those are the measurements for the cage and the dusting i only do it once thats all i need to do with this stuff its not like using the 80 billion other powders.

 

[PaulTB]

o and i have a bin thats been in there already just incase its a foot deep filled with play sand ect ect i know what everythings supposed to be XD i was just trying to figure out if she could be gravid or something else XD

 

[Elizadolots]

Does she have easy access to the bin? Can she just go there when she needs to and get away if she isn't ready?

The sand needs to be moist enough to hold a tunnel. I strongly suggest you drill a tunnel with your finger. Leave it there..it might inspire her.

Make sure she thinks she has privacy....rig it so you can see her but she won't know it. If she thinks you're watching, she won't lay.

 

[PaulTB]

hmm ya she has easy access to it she can easily climb in and out of the bin with no problems im gonna try the starting off a tunnel see if that does anything if not i have no idea what i could do

 

[Sun]

Could be anything have you did anything different?hope gets better

 

[PaulTB]

hopefully it really sucks that there is no reptile vets any where by where i live which really bothers the heck outta me

 

[PaulTB]

My female panther colors gravid or stressed ?

Was finally able to get some pictures up