Shalynchameleon
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I adopted this chameleon six days ago. He hunts really well, his enclosure was updated immediately when we got him. I don’t try to handle him, all I do is mist his cage 3x a day, feed him and air it out for a few minutes at a time. The transportation from old owners to us was probably very traumatic but he seems more stressed than the first couple days we had him. I’ve read so many articles on here and have learned a lot, but is it normal for him to bloat out after eating, he probably had 6 crickets today. Also his skin is dull colored and light spots starting to show. I’ve read about the black spot pattern compared to burn marks, but is he too close to the light maybe? What’s the proper distance to keep him from the tube light? It’s only been six days so I’m not surprised he’s stressed but is there anything here I’m missing. We don’t plan on interacting with him due to his previous trauma with his first owners, all we want is to give him the best life he can have in confinement. Before picture of his terrarium is when we went to pick him up. The after is that night we got home