oliveview
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Darwin has stopped eating. I thought about 2 months ago she was going to lay eggs and I gave her a 9 or 10" bucket with washed play sand. She never laid any eggs but I left her bucket in the cage as I felt it was coming soon.
The last couple of days she has totally stopped eating. Last night we noticed that she had dug in the sand for the first time. I see now that the sand is dried out.
I don't know what to do. Should I take the container out and rewash the sand and get it warm and moist? Do I leave it alone? Is there a reasonable chance that she is egg bound now? Her stools were fine but I haven't seen any in a couple but that doesn't mean she hasn't had any.
She is in 7, 8 maybe 9 month old veiled who has been very healthy until now.
She lives in a large enclosure in a corner area of a room. Her temps and humidity have been consistent. She is misted twice per day and a drip system runs for several hours per day. She eats mostly crickets which are dusted daily with a non D3 calcium powder and once a week dusted with a D3 calcium powder and multi vitamin. She has always refused any food other than crickets. She has been offered mealworms, wax worms and silk worms. The crickets eat sweet potatoes, greens, carrots, apples and such.
Please help us! This is our first chameleon and I am just so unsure as to what to do!
Thank you,
Sherri
The last couple of days she has totally stopped eating. Last night we noticed that she had dug in the sand for the first time. I see now that the sand is dried out.
I don't know what to do. Should I take the container out and rewash the sand and get it warm and moist? Do I leave it alone? Is there a reasonable chance that she is egg bound now? Her stools were fine but I haven't seen any in a couple but that doesn't mean she hasn't had any.
She is in 7, 8 maybe 9 month old veiled who has been very healthy until now.
She lives in a large enclosure in a corner area of a room. Her temps and humidity have been consistent. She is misted twice per day and a drip system runs for several hours per day. She eats mostly crickets which are dusted daily with a non D3 calcium powder and once a week dusted with a D3 calcium powder and multi vitamin. She has always refused any food other than crickets. She has been offered mealworms, wax worms and silk worms. The crickets eat sweet potatoes, greens, carrots, apples and such.
Please help us! This is our first chameleon and I am just so unsure as to what to do!
Thank you,
Sherri