Pale head

Sierraowen

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My chameleon is about a year old, and I feel like his face is pale. I’ve seen many pictures of others, and they have bright yellow lines around their eyes and mine does not. This is the latest picture I have. Does he look normal? Any advise helps. I also have a picture of the cage I made if that contributes to anything? He eats crickets and meal worms, and has access to his drinking fountain 24/7. When he was a baby he loved fruits and vegetables, but won’t touch them now. He has a bowl of dried meal worms dusted in calcium that is in his cage 24/7 that he likes to snack on as well.
 

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The inside of his enclosure does not look like the picture now. The picture was right after I built it and when I was in the middle of putting plants and other things in.
 
Hi and welcome I see you joined earlier this year did you have your husbandry reviewed. As this would be a big help. Firstly chams really need a t5ho uvb linear light like a reptisun 5% or arcadia 6%. You could try black soldier fly larve or dubia roaches which are high in protein. Mealworms are not a great feeder for chams even alive there eyesight is their greatest feature and would be more interested in something wriggling or crawling about .
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You said..."My chameleon is about a year old, and I feel like his face is pale. I’ve seen many pictures of others, and they have bright yellow lines around their eyes and mine does not".... They vary a lot in color.

You said..."This is the latest picture I have. Does he look normal?"...his left arm looks strange. Did he get burned from his basking light?

You said..."He eats crickets and meal worms, and has access to his drinking fountain 24/7. When he was a baby he loved fruits and vegetables, but won’t touch them now."...meal worms are not a good feeder insect and he definitely should not be getting dried insects of any kind. Fountains are a germ factory for the most part. He should be drinking from a dripper or from water droplets from misting the leaves of the plants in his cage.

The UVB light should be the long linear kind. Either a Reptisun 5.0 or the Arcadia 12 are good. For basking a regular household incandescent bulb of a wattage that makes the basking area in the low 80's F range.

What supplements SPECIFICALLY do you use and how often for each? What do you feed/gutload the insects with SPECIFICALLY?
 
Hi and welcome I see you joined earlier this year did you have your husbandry reviewed. As this would be a big help. Firstly chams really need a t5ho uvb linear light like a reptisun 5% or arcadia 6%. You could try black soldier fly larve or dubia roaches which are high in protein. Mealworms are not a great feeder for chams even alive there eyesight is their greatest feature and would be more interested in something wriggling or crawling about . View attachment 283965
I have to correct myself. He gets super worms but I’m in habit of calling them meal worms.
 
You said..."My chameleon is about a year old, and I feel like his face is pale. I’ve seen many pictures of others, and they have bright yellow lines around their eyes and mine does not".... They vary a lot in color.

You said..."This is the latest picture I have. Does he look normal?"...his left arm looks strange. Did he get burned from his basking light?

You said..."He eats crickets and meal worms, and has access to his drinking fountain 24/7. When he was a baby he loved fruits and vegetables, but won’t touch them now."...meal worms are not a good feeder insect and he definitely should not be getting dried insects of any kind. Fountains are a germ factory for the most part. He should be drinking from a dripper or from water droplets from misting the leaves of the plants in his cage.

The UVB light should be the long linear kind. Either a Reptisun 5.0 or the Arcadia 12 are good. For basking a regular household incandescent bulb of a wattage that makes the basking area in the low 80's F range.

What supplements SPECIFICALLY do you use and how often for each? What do you feed/gutload the insects with SPECIFICALLY?
I’m wrong. I don’t feed him meal worms, I occasionally give him super worms. I’m just in habit of calling them that.
 
Hi firstly look at the chart I linked supers are treats. I must agree with kinyonga looks like burns. Your top branches are to close to your basking light. You really need to upgrade your uvb to a linear t5ho 5 / 6 %. Check your basking temperature and either lower the wattage of your bulb/ lower your branches or raise your light
 
Hi firstly look at the chart I linked supers are treats. I must agree with kinyonga looks like burns. Your top branches are to close to your basking light. You really need to upgrade your uvb to a linear t5ho 5 / 6 %. Check your basking temperature and either lower the wattage of your bulb/ lower your branches or raise your light
Thanks. He’s had that spot his whole life.
 
Hi firstly look at the chart I linked supers are treats. I must agree with kinyonga looks like burns. Your top branches are to close to your basking light. You really need to upgrade your uvb to a linear t5ho 5 / 6 %. Check your basking temperature and either lower the wattage of your bulb/ lower your branches or raise your light

In regards to the dark mark on the front leg.

If you look at his back leg there is pink. Is there a chance hes just a poorly marked translucent?
I know that they get odd purple/dark splotches in the pink areas as they age.
 
My chameleon is about a year old, and I feel like his face is pale. I’ve seen many pictures of others, and they have bright yellow lines around their eyes and mine does not. This is the latest picture I have. Does he look normal? Any advise helps. I also have a picture of the cage I made if that contributes to anything? He eats crickets and meal worms, and has access to his drinking fountain 24/7. When he was a baby he loved fruits and vegetables, but won’t touch them now. He has a bowl of dried meal worms dusted in calcium that is in his cage 24/7 that he likes to snack on as well.
I never knew there was such thing as “translucent.” Interesting. I’ve thrown away the dried meal worms and ordered a long uvb light. When he was a baby he had pink legs and some pink on his mouth. Is that was makes him “translucent?”
 
My chameleon is about a year old, and I feel like his face is pale. I’ve seen many pictures of others, and they have bright yellow lines around their eyes and mine does not. This is the latest picture I have. Does he look normal? Any advise helps. I also have a picture of the cage I made if that contributes to anything? He eats crickets and meal worms, and has access to his drinking fountain 24/7. When he was a baby he loved fruits and vegetables, but won’t touch them now. He has a bowl of dried meal worms dusted in calcium that is in his cage 24/7 that he likes to snack on as well.
These are picture over time of his pink, black and white legs, but with also a light face.
 

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