Oliver el Camaleon
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Hi, we are first timers to the Cham lifestyle 
Oliver is an Ambilobe Panther Chameleon and I believe he is four months old. We've had him for a month tomorrow. His set up is as follows:
uv light
heating light
mesh enclosure
wood chips substrate with finer wood chips on top (we are changing to New Zealand sphagnum moss tomorrow though)
We gut load his crickets with carrots, potatoes and kale and they have plenty to drink. We were dusting them with calcium (w/d3) but he was getting white crystals on his nostrils so I guess we were putting too much. We stopped for a few days hoping to even out the supplement and now we dust calcium on them I'd say maybe once a week. However, now I'm starting to think we should have continued daily...
The problem:
Oliver seems to be, what can only be described as, resting on his vine a lot in the past two weeks. I also saw him shaking as he was walking a bit in his enclosure this morning (before we turned on the lights for him). He shed about two weeks ago and he still had a small line of white on the top ridge of his head and a bit of skin hanging from some fingers. I keep the humidity up as much as I can but when we take him out to the sun it is harder to keep it up. We try to take him out to the sun almost everyday as long as it isn't raining or cloudy.
In any case, I took a video of him resting and you can somewhat see it before I open the enclosure. I also showed overall appearance and his poop. Please let me know what you think. I'll also try to take more videos showing his behavior.
http://youtu.be/o93PiVhufdw
Thanks guys,
Oliver and the gang
Oliver is an Ambilobe Panther Chameleon and I believe he is four months old. We've had him for a month tomorrow. His set up is as follows:
uv light
heating light
mesh enclosure
wood chips substrate with finer wood chips on top (we are changing to New Zealand sphagnum moss tomorrow though)
We gut load his crickets with carrots, potatoes and kale and they have plenty to drink. We were dusting them with calcium (w/d3) but he was getting white crystals on his nostrils so I guess we were putting too much. We stopped for a few days hoping to even out the supplement and now we dust calcium on them I'd say maybe once a week. However, now I'm starting to think we should have continued daily...
The problem:
Oliver seems to be, what can only be described as, resting on his vine a lot in the past two weeks. I also saw him shaking as he was walking a bit in his enclosure this morning (before we turned on the lights for him). He shed about two weeks ago and he still had a small line of white on the top ridge of his head and a bit of skin hanging from some fingers. I keep the humidity up as much as I can but when we take him out to the sun it is harder to keep it up. We try to take him out to the sun almost everyday as long as it isn't raining or cloudy.
In any case, I took a video of him resting and you can somewhat see it before I open the enclosure. I also showed overall appearance and his poop. Please let me know what you think. I'll also try to take more videos showing his behavior.
http://youtu.be/o93PiVhufdw
Thanks guys
,Oliver and the gang
