Hello everyone. I am so glad I found this site, as it looks like there are a lot of very knowledgeable people here where it comes to taking care of chameleons.
My daughter got a veiled chameleon for Christmas from her sister, and the little thing has been doing great until recently.
His name is pascal - although after reading a lot in here, I have a feeling pascal is a she and not a he.
Anyhow, yesterday we noticed Pascal at the bottom of his cage looking dead. He was very dark in color (between gray and brown with very light green on him) and I though he was dead, but then we realized he was still breathing. he looked very sleepy at first but we then realized he couldn't even stick his tongue out to drink water, so my first though was that he was dehydrated. we tried giving him some water which he took in and after a few minutes when we put him back in his habitat he ate a cricket.
I don't want to make this message 100 pages long so you don't get bored.
He is still not looking good. He is still staying at the bottom of the cage although his color is now a light green. We have seen him eat 1 cricket today and not sure if he has drank any water. He is staying at the bottom of the cage, and is moving very little. I think he has changed positions maybe twice in the last 7 hours. Also, one of his eyes has been closed since yesterday and I am not sure if I am right about this, but I think I notice a bump under his tail. Could he be constipated? We haven't seen any feces for a couple of days.
Please be understanding, I thought we were doing a great job with this little buddy until i came across this site and found out we are doing a lot of things wrong. we are going to fix them once he/she makes it. for example, he lives in a 10 gallon fish tank, with a lot of fresh plants and plenty of water that my daughter mists every couple of hours or so.
We were giving him mealworms because that is what we read somewhere that that is what they eat and not until just a couple of days that we found out they are supposed to eat crickets. My daughter bought him/her from petsmart we didn't know that was not a good place to buy them from.
I am including some pictures and hopefully a video ( https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1fN8TZ3DKi8Xe3g8 ) so you can see how he/she is and see if that can give you an idea of what he/she looks so maybe you can advise better.
Thank you for your help. We are all really attached to pascal and will hate to loose him/her.
My daughter got a veiled chameleon for Christmas from her sister, and the little thing has been doing great until recently.
His name is pascal - although after reading a lot in here, I have a feeling pascal is a she and not a he.
Anyhow, yesterday we noticed Pascal at the bottom of his cage looking dead. He was very dark in color (between gray and brown with very light green on him) and I though he was dead, but then we realized he was still breathing. he looked very sleepy at first but we then realized he couldn't even stick his tongue out to drink water, so my first though was that he was dehydrated. we tried giving him some water which he took in and after a few minutes when we put him back in his habitat he ate a cricket.
I don't want to make this message 100 pages long so you don't get bored.
He is still not looking good. He is still staying at the bottom of the cage although his color is now a light green. We have seen him eat 1 cricket today and not sure if he has drank any water. He is staying at the bottom of the cage, and is moving very little. I think he has changed positions maybe twice in the last 7 hours. Also, one of his eyes has been closed since yesterday and I am not sure if I am right about this, but I think I notice a bump under his tail. Could he be constipated? We haven't seen any feces for a couple of days.
Please be understanding, I thought we were doing a great job with this little buddy until i came across this site and found out we are doing a lot of things wrong. we are going to fix them once he/she makes it. for example, he lives in a 10 gallon fish tank, with a lot of fresh plants and plenty of water that my daughter mists every couple of hours or so.
We were giving him mealworms because that is what we read somewhere that that is what they eat and not until just a couple of days that we found out they are supposed to eat crickets. My daughter bought him/her from petsmart we didn't know that was not a good place to buy them from.
I am including some pictures and hopefully a video ( https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1fN8TZ3DKi8Xe3g8 ) so you can see how he/she is and see if that can give you an idea of what he/she looks so maybe you can advise better.
Thank you for your help. We are all really attached to pascal and will hate to loose him/her.