Please help!

[Jahnna64]

• Your Chameleon - Panther Blue Bar
• Sex - Male
• Age - 7 months
• Had him since October
• Handling - 10/15 minutes a day
• Feeding - Mostly Crickets Gut Loaded, Waxworms, and Super worms
• Supplements - Repti-Cal with D3 and Without D3, Also Reptivite. I am dusting just as the site suggests: Every Feeding plain calcium, The Vitamin and Calcium with D3 Twice a month.
• Watering - I have a mister on for about 45 minutes in the morning also I mist the cage myself until soaking wet 3 times a day
• Fecal Description - Been black/brownish and Urate White
• History - LOVES being held, such a sweet boy

Cage Info:

• Cage Type - It is a reptobreeze 24 x 24 x 48
• Lighting - Heat lamp is 75 watts, and I also have the reptibreeze UVB terrarium hood 24 Watt
• Temperature - Basking around 85
• Humidity - 40/50% humidity
• Plants - I have a huge Ficus Benjimina in now. LOTS of fake plants and 3 vines, and sticks.
• Location: Sacramento, California

Current Problem - My chameleon is acting strange. Hes been hanging out at the bottom of the cage, not laying down or anything but he just walks down there, and back up to the top over and over. he just crawls all around the screen part of the cage. And when I open the door he runs out to me! He has not eaten all his crickets. I think he's addicted to super worms because he ignores the crickets but when I put a super in he eats it right away. Should I feed him every other day now that he's older? I am really stumped on what to do. Will he ever eat crickets ??

 

[Jahnna64]

 

[jcarlsen]

Sounds like your husbandry is on point, though I'm still new to this myself.

I've got a ten month panther that I got hooked on supers. I loved having him hand feed, but now he only prefers supers and horns. I think it's getting close to spacing out the feedings. Try skipping a day or two and offer crix again and see what he does. As long as he has plenty of drinking water he'll be fine.

As for the walking around, I'm not 100 percent sure. Ive read that as they start getting mature, they start patrolling their enclosures.

Looks like a handsome young man

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

Yup, when them lill boys become teenagers they act out! Get all finiky with fooD and hang around the bottom of they cage patrolling back and forth. They are also more likely to hiss at you and act like they are the big thing! This too shall pass!

 

[Swiftchameleon]

Do not offer any worms. Keep offering crickets and eventually he will get hungry and eat them.