Hey everyone,
I just recently purchased a baby (probably around 1 month old) panther chameleon and have a few questions. First I haven't really noticed him eating too much, I've been giving him gutloaded crickets smaller than a 1/4 inch so I guess pinheads and he's been slightly reluctant to eat. He ate the first few days and then begun to shed and then has eaten noticeably less, I haven't really seen him eating but the crickets are disappearing and he's active and pooping the healthy long brown fecal matter with a white cap. I go to school during the day so he might just be eating them throughout the day. I put the crickets in a cup and a few I let go free range in the cage. I've been reading some stuff about fruit flies so I'll see if I can get some today.
His cage is the small screened zilla habitat with a live pothos plant, fake vine-like plant that he likes to sleep in, and some twistable vines. He is under a repti-sun 5.0 and a zoo-med 75 basking light. I run a dripper on him every other day when I'm at school and mist him 3 to 4 times a day. He has the proper temperature gradients throughout the cage with a basking spot in the upper 80's and the rest of the cage around the low 80's maybe upper 70's in some spots near the bottom. His terrarium is about 4 1/2 feet up in the air on my dresser and isn't under any direct drafts. I also live in Florida so the house remains pretty humid.
I work at a pet store have have cared for multiple veiled and jackson chameleons and I currently own turtles, a tortoise, snake, a large reef tank, and a dog so I've been around animals my whole life as well as I am a biology major so you don't need to dumb anything down for me.
He seem's healthy and I can't find anything wrong with the cage, is he still just adjusting? Should I try the fruit flies?
I just recently purchased a baby (probably around 1 month old) panther chameleon and have a few questions. First I haven't really noticed him eating too much, I've been giving him gutloaded crickets smaller than a 1/4 inch so I guess pinheads and he's been slightly reluctant to eat. He ate the first few days and then begun to shed and then has eaten noticeably less, I haven't really seen him eating but the crickets are disappearing and he's active and pooping the healthy long brown fecal matter with a white cap. I go to school during the day so he might just be eating them throughout the day. I put the crickets in a cup and a few I let go free range in the cage. I've been reading some stuff about fruit flies so I'll see if I can get some today.
His cage is the small screened zilla habitat with a live pothos plant, fake vine-like plant that he likes to sleep in, and some twistable vines. He is under a repti-sun 5.0 and a zoo-med 75 basking light. I run a dripper on him every other day when I'm at school and mist him 3 to 4 times a day. He has the proper temperature gradients throughout the cage with a basking spot in the upper 80's and the rest of the cage around the low 80's maybe upper 70's in some spots near the bottom. His terrarium is about 4 1/2 feet up in the air on my dresser and isn't under any direct drafts. I also live in Florida so the house remains pretty humid.
I work at a pet store have have cared for multiple veiled and jackson chameleons and I currently own turtles, a tortoise, snake, a large reef tank, and a dog so I've been around animals my whole life as well as I am a biology major so you don't need to dumb anything down for me.
He seem's healthy and I can't find anything wrong with the cage, is he still just adjusting? Should I try the fruit flies?
