Need Help

[Shadolin]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled - About 1.5 yrs - been in our care for a year
Handling - Rarely Maybe once every 2 weeks.
Feeding - Crickets - 10 - 15 a day - Morning and night - Using Flukes cricket gut load
Supplements - Crickets are dusted every 3 days.
Watering - We have a drip system and mist twice a day. I dont see him drinking
Fecal Description - Its brown and semi solid. No he has not.


Cage Info:
Cage Type - Glass sides with screen top about 1.5 feet X 1.5 Feet X 2 Feet
Lighting - 8-9 lights go one for 12 hours. Using a repisun 10.0 and standard heat lamp
Temperature - Temps range from 90's (near top bulb) to mid 80's at bottom. I use a digital temp gage to measure.
Humidity - Humidity is around 40% it is measured by a dial humidity gauge.
Plants - No live plants just plastic
Placement - Cage is in my sons room infront of a window that faces west. The base of the cage sits 4.5 ft off the foor.
Location - Nebraska

Current Problem -

My son has a veiled chameleon and he is very week. I need some suggestions how to nurse him back to health. I am being told (not in the house) that he has not eaten in 2-3 days and that crickets are crawling right in front of him and he is making no effort to catch them.

Can he he hand fed? Should I move him into a smaller cage?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Lancecham]

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Pictures would be great as well.

 

[tkilgour]

Please fill out the form. This way we can find out all the little details and eventually give you some tips to help the little one.
The problems could be anything, something like food being to large or something serious. We just can't begin to give you tips until we know the details. Thanks

 

[Shadolin]

OK edited.

 

[kinyonga]

What supplements specifically are the insects dusted with and how often for each supplement?
Are the insects gutloaded?
Does the UVB light pass through glass or plastic?
Is is a male or female? (I know you said "he"...but I just want to make sure.)
Is the chameleon shutting its eyes during the daytime?
Is it pooping? Any substrate in the cage?
Can you post some pictures?

 

[Shadolin]

What supplements specifically are the insects dusted with and how often for each supplement?
Are the insects gutloaded?
Does the UVB light pass through glass or plastic?
Is is a male or female? (I know you said "he"...but I just want to make sure.)
Is the chameleon shutting its eyes during the daytime?
Is it pooping? Any substrate in the cage?
Can you post some pictures?

Vitamin D is the only supplement I believe that is being used and every 3 days
UVB goes through the screen
Im not sure on Sex sorry
Yes he is shutting his eye during the day
Not pooping much over past few days and there is bark in the bottom of the cage.
Ill try to get pics. His color is good but he is VERY thin and looks malnourished.

 

[kinyonga]

You need to get it to a vet IMHO...and then make changes to the husbandry. It should only be given D3 a couple of times a month included in a phos.-free calcium powder. At most feedings it should get insects dusted with a phos.-free calcium powder (with no D3).

Sorry...I have to sign off for now...but I will come back later and explain more.

 

[justjumpit621]

Males have little spurs on their hind heels.

 

[Elizadolots]

Cage Type - Glass sides with screen top about 1.5 feet X 1.5 Feet X 2 Feet

This is an adult veiled. That's kind of a small enclosure. Particularly if, as I suspect, it's a horizontal terrarium. Chameleons need vertical height. For a male veiled I believe it's recommended they have at least 4 feet of height. Also, having only the top screened doesn't really give enough ventilation. Glass can work, but you need ventilation on at least one side as well as the top.

Also, the Reptisun 10 in that small an enclosure is probably not wise. Even with the big cages most here use the Reptisun 5.

 

[Texas Panther Man]

First of all he sounds severely dehydrated. Get him some H20 immediately. I would put a nice sized plant in a shower and place him in there with a nice warm not hot mist. Let it mist for 20-30 mins. He still needs s vet visit asap. But the water may help him at least regain some strength to be able to handle the stress of a trip to the vet. Get him out of that glass cage now. He needs a screened cage of 4ft tall by 2ft wide. He need a retisun 5.0 uvb bulb. This bulb needs to be changed regularly at six to 7 month intervals. He needs a dripper and his cage needs to be misted 3 times daily. You will need to buy 3 different supplements for him. calcium w d3 you have that already.
calcium WITHOUT d3. And also a multivitamin dust.