BallstoWall30
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My Chemeleon-My Chameleon, Gucci, is a male panther blue bar and he is 7 months old now, and hes been with me for 5 months.
Handling-I handle my Chameleon every other day.
Feeding-I feed him crickets and try to put like 2 or 3 in his cage everyday and always have a few in his cage, and I gut load them with carrots, greens, papaya, and oranges.
Supplements- I put repcal calcium on the crickets everyday except for the weekends, and on the weekends I use every other weekend switching between herpivite and D3 and then Minerall the next week.
Watering-I use a mistKing every 2 hours from 7am to 700pm and goes off for 2 min, and I use a dripper in the corner just in case hes thirsty. I think he hates the mister but I can see him drinking all the time from both.
Fecals-His poop is normal with the urate white but sometimes a tiny tinge of orange. Hasnt been tested for parasites yet because I just got him and got him from TikiTikiReptiles and trust them.
Cage- Screen terrarium 15X16X28
Lighting- Reptisun light 5.0 UVB, then basking bulb 60 watt at the top of cage
Temperature- HUGE PROBLEM!- Basking spot gets up to 80 or 90 degrees bottom of cage gets to below 60 at night sometimes and when misting system goes off it fluctuates hugely, I also have ceramic emitter on all the time because my room gets soooo cold and idk what to do because if I turn on heat our electric bill sky rockets to more than $300, but have thermometer in middle of cage and sometimes move it
Humidity- 50% to 90% when misting system goes off
Plants-fake vines and a ficus live plant
Location- far away from window so no draft in the corner of my room away from cold spots, cage is high on dresser
Location- I am in San Diego, and IT DOES GET COLD HERE AT NIGHT! my room has no insulation one bit!
MY problem- I think my chameleon has a respiratory infection because hes been keeping his mouth open all day today for the first time, and I think its linked to the temperature problem and the misting problem. Is it possible to get rid of a respiratory infection without vet? And if I am going to keep the misting system on this winter how do I keep the water warm? I have a heat pad on it right now, but doesnt seem to be warming it up very well. And How bad can the temps fluctuate with a male panther? The temps usually stay between 60 and 70 now and up to 80 to 90 with his little heater but that costs alot of electricity, but its only November and Im worried if it gets any colder, I dont know what to do. Who would have thought Id have a problem with cold temps in San Diego
Handling-I handle my Chameleon every other day.
Feeding-I feed him crickets and try to put like 2 or 3 in his cage everyday and always have a few in his cage, and I gut load them with carrots, greens, papaya, and oranges.
Supplements- I put repcal calcium on the crickets everyday except for the weekends, and on the weekends I use every other weekend switching between herpivite and D3 and then Minerall the next week.
Watering-I use a mistKing every 2 hours from 7am to 700pm and goes off for 2 min, and I use a dripper in the corner just in case hes thirsty. I think he hates the mister but I can see him drinking all the time from both.
Fecals-His poop is normal with the urate white but sometimes a tiny tinge of orange. Hasnt been tested for parasites yet because I just got him and got him from TikiTikiReptiles and trust them.
Cage- Screen terrarium 15X16X28
Lighting- Reptisun light 5.0 UVB, then basking bulb 60 watt at the top of cage
Temperature- HUGE PROBLEM!- Basking spot gets up to 80 or 90 degrees bottom of cage gets to below 60 at night sometimes and when misting system goes off it fluctuates hugely, I also have ceramic emitter on all the time because my room gets soooo cold and idk what to do because if I turn on heat our electric bill sky rockets to more than $300, but have thermometer in middle of cage and sometimes move it
Humidity- 50% to 90% when misting system goes off
Plants-fake vines and a ficus live plant
Location- far away from window so no draft in the corner of my room away from cold spots, cage is high on dresser
Location- I am in San Diego, and IT DOES GET COLD HERE AT NIGHT! my room has no insulation one bit!
MY problem- I think my chameleon has a respiratory infection because hes been keeping his mouth open all day today for the first time, and I think its linked to the temperature problem and the misting problem. Is it possible to get rid of a respiratory infection without vet? And if I am going to keep the misting system on this winter how do I keep the water warm? I have a heat pad on it right now, but doesnt seem to be warming it up very well. And How bad can the temps fluctuate with a male panther? The temps usually stay between 60 and 70 now and up to 80 to 90 with his little heater but that costs alot of electricity, but its only November and Im worried if it gets any colder, I dont know what to do. Who would have thought Id have a problem with cold temps in San Diego