Need some experienced eyes

[FatherMaxwell]

Hey all,

Brand new to the forums, as well as the chameleon daddio game, So far I love the heck outta my lil feller, the people i bought him from thought he was a male, and i'm not really sure, as as i said earlier, i have little experience with chams.

So, if any of you can help me out by taking a look at a couple pics of my little guy Bahamut, what I'm looking to find out is: 1.Is he healthy? (I feed him on crickets, sprayed with multivitamin spray twice a week *the crickets every day mind you*), 2.Sex? dunno myself, 3. Does he appear to be the correctish size for what I'm told his age is, 5-6 months?

Thanks in advance for any and all help

 

[dcooley08]

Hey all,

Brand new to the forums, as well as the chameleon daddio game, So far I love the heck outta my lil feller, the people i bought him from thought he was a male, and i'm not really sure, as as i said earlier, i have little experience with chams.

So, if any of you can help me out by taking a look at a couple pics of my little guy Bahamut, what I'm looking to find out is: 1.Is he healthy? (I feed him on crickets, sprayed with multivitamin spray twice a week *the crickets every day mind you*), 2.Sex? dunno myself, 3. Does he appear to be the correctish size for what I'm told his age is, 5-6 months?

Thanks in advance for any and all help

cute little guy you got there. he looks healthy to me. and yes he is a he. and i would not say 5-6 months. i would say 3-4 months (unless you have ginormouse fingers) lol

you need to supplement him with calcium dusting on the crickets.

its recommended that you use Calcium without D3 at every feeding, and calcium with D3 twice a month. The multivitamin is only recommended once a month.

Im sure other members will be along with more details and blogs you can read.

If you have some free time i would recommend reading Jannb's blog on supplementing and variation in feeders. Variation is very important in a chams diet.

Best of luck, and welcome to the best most informational place for you and your new cham.

 

[FatherMaxwell]

thanks for the quick reply, yeah, my brother has calcium dust lying around for his leopard geckos, so i'll steal a bit from him, and thank you again

 

[dcooley08]

thanks for the quick reply, yeah, my brother has calcium dust lying around for his leopard geckos, so i'll steal a bit from him, and thank you again

not a problem,
Do you have a UVB Light on him? Posting pics of his enclosure would help us help you.

What are your temps at?
Humidity levels?
are you only feeding crickets. if so what size?
whats your misting schedule like?
are his urates white? or orange colors?
Lighting schedule? 12 on 12 off?


Make sure its without D3. you can poison your cham if you are using the wrong supplements.

 

[FatherMaxwell]

got a uv light on him for 12 hours, along with a 75 watt projector heat lamp aimed at the bottom of the enclosure (uv light at the top tho, about 8" above the enclosure, i found the bulb got really bright, and he wasn't coming out of his hiding bushes when i clamped it to the top so i raised it and it seems he likes it far better )I just chalked it up to his sensitive cham eyes)

temp and humidity stay at the recommended levels for juveniles 75-80 near the top and it gets a bit hotter near his jungle vine basking zone, where it peaks at around 85, humidity is good as i mist his enclosure when i leave for work in the morning, and my grandmother mists him at around noon, and i typically mist the leaves of his plants to give him a drink later in the evening, I'm getting a drip system or auto mister once i can finance it, along with a timer for his lights, right now its getting to be colder at night in canada, so i've been keeping an infrared light on him for nighttime heat regulation, but once again, I'm saving for better, ceramic heat elements. ( my cars a money pit, so i alternate between Bahamut stuff and car stuff. lol)

As far as feeder variety goes, i tried to give him a super worm (small one), and he went for it right away, but when he had it in his mouth, it was struggling and touched his eye, so Bahamut dropped it right away, and i havent been able to get him to eat a worm since. I'm looking into getting him some smaller hornworms to turn him back onto the worms, its just hard to find small horns out in rural Ontario. OOH and i feed him houseflies whenever a new one materializes in the house, hes like a living flyswatter!

Sorry for the novel, if i left anything out, just let me know

 

[imcurt]

First of all welcome to the forums I agree with Dcooley He looks like a healthy 4month male. There is a decent care sheet on my website.My signature is a link. Make sure you get him on a supplement schedule asap

 

[FatherMaxwell]

also, his urates are mostly white, theres a few tiny poops with a tinge of orange in the urates, but theres a big ole fresh one i found with a snow white one.

 

[mcleodschams]

nice to see another from ontario if you need any feeders let me know pm me or email i get my shipments on teusdays and need your order thursday night i have access to just about everything. your little guy is cute where is he from and what locale is he?

 

[laurie]

Welcome to the forum. I only have two things to suggest, get a cheap dome light at home depot and a 60 watt regular household bulb instead of the 75 projector, also the Cham thinks of the light as his sun, where his heat comes from, it needs to be at the top of the cage. You can try different watt bulbs until you get the temp you want.

 

[Lathelia]

got a uv light on him for 12 hours, along with a 75 watt projector heat lamp aimed at the bottom of the enclosure (uv light at the top tho, about 8" above the enclosure, i found the bulb got really bright, and he wasn't coming out of his hiding bushes when i clamped it to the top so i raised it and it seems he likes it far better )I just chalked it up to his sensitive cham eyes)

What UVb light do you have? You need 5uvb, if you have stronger it might irritate his eyes. And I would suggest putting it at the top of the enclosure (inside is better, if the light goes through a mesh it blocks around 50% of rays), if it's that high (8'') he wont be getting much of the rays.