This could not have gotten any worse. I have not slept since Friday due to keeping a constant eye on the chameleon, Today I had gave him some water and he began keeping his eyes completely open. A little while later went back to check and he was roaming around and had just caught a cricket and noticed a few where missing. He basically looked great, took picture wrote post that it would all be uphill from here. So to play it 100 percent safe decided to run down to pet store down the road since he was finally doing so well and to go ahead and purchase better cage, lights and everything instead of waiting till Thursday. I purchased a reptibreeze screen cage as well as the Terrarium hood with the reptisun 5.0 uvb light and a few more crickets so not to take any chance, figure it was bit extreme since all my real items would be coming in in four days but got way to attached and did not want to regret later if anything did happen. Well I get home shortly after and go to set it up the cage to see the Chameleon is lifeless, and shriveled up and could instantly tell he was dead from ten feet away. I had a good idea something was seriously wrong with this guy before I even received him since the day he arrived the guy I ordered him from never responded to a single call or email again. Just don't understand how people could do this, so here I am with well over $500 dollars spent not even included the chameleon himself, and 3/4 of the items never even got used. I just cant believe I kept a constant eye on him and have been up all night and day to keep a constant eye and when he starts to actually walk all around and start eating and looked incredible I leave for 45 minutes to pick up item to play it as safe as possible and come home to this. I believe I did everything I possibly could but obviously the guy who sold this to me knew this thing was 100 percent guaranteed to die. Well thank you everyone with all the input and suggestions was fun to be part of chameleonforums even though it was short lived.
Here he is after just getting a cricket on his own and chewing him up and climbing back up onto the branch, was so excited.
I know this may be weird but still felt obligated to build the entire habitat, assemble cage and set up the uvb light and hood and layed him in it for minute since he didn't actually live long enough to really experience it. But from the picture you can see this is how I found him when i returned, layed out and shriveled up.
Here he is after just getting a cricket on his own and chewing him up and climbing back up onto the branch, was so excited.
I know this may be weird but still felt obligated to build the entire habitat, assemble cage and set up the uvb light and hood and layed him in it for minute since he didn't actually live long enough to really experience it. But from the picture you can see this is how I found him when i returned, layed out and shriveled up.
