Barye
Member
Hello!
Disclaimer: I'm not the veteran chameleon caretaker. And Jojo is my first chameleon ever, so please, don't be too harsh, as I want my pet to feel the best as it's possible. However, it sometimes doesn't succeed.
Jojo is a one year old chameleon. I was actually two times at vet's with him.
One day it was due to his casque was burnt and part of it just fell off as he scratched it on the mesh of his old tank.
Then, I was worried about his lack of apetite and very dark-brownish colour, where he was usually light green. As I've found out, there were two types of issues. 1.parasites and 2.problem with shed on his tail.
At the time, Jojo had two layers of shed on his tail, and there were no chances he will remove it himself. It is where the issues with shed began. I did what the vet told me, and finally succeeded with picking his double shed off his tail.
Suddenly, Jojo became bright again and started to eat normally.
Lately, he had another shedding, but it was so problematic i decided to help him a bit. I thought i actually removed the dead skin. But the skin under it was kind of blueish and more slimy than usual.
I decided to stop on that, and later on, i saw that the exact place i took the skin off, was all black. It doesn't feel like a crust. It feels like a normal scales, but they're entirely black.
There are also several smaller shedding problem on his head (mostly casque, and one of the eyes. When i try to remove it he starts to shaking too much, so it's to dangerous to do it.
What can I do to help him regenerate the normal colour of his black scales? And also, how to make him eat crickets? I know that diet based on mealworms is very bad for them, but he just refuses to eat anything else.
Crickets or Cockroaches will always die sooner than he'll be interested to eat them. It is also worth to mention that at the moment when he's inside the tank, his skin is dark green, however if i pick him out of it, his skin becomes light green.
The new tank is 60x60x170cm.
UVB and Heat Lamp is provided.
The hottest place has around 30 Celcius.
The Humidity is mostly around 40%, however it is around 70% as the issues with shedding started to happen.
Fogger was purchased recently, earlier i was just sprinkling the water over the tank.
Jojo is fed using mealworms and crickets( however as i mentioned, he just dont eat them)
Calcium is provided with every meal, and two times a month, i suplement him with Reptivite vitamins.
Disclaimer: I'm not the veteran chameleon caretaker. And Jojo is my first chameleon ever, so please, don't be too harsh, as I want my pet to feel the best as it's possible. However, it sometimes doesn't succeed.
Jojo is a one year old chameleon. I was actually two times at vet's with him.
One day it was due to his casque was burnt and part of it just fell off as he scratched it on the mesh of his old tank.
Then, I was worried about his lack of apetite and very dark-brownish colour, where he was usually light green. As I've found out, there were two types of issues. 1.parasites and 2.problem with shed on his tail.
At the time, Jojo had two layers of shed on his tail, and there were no chances he will remove it himself. It is where the issues with shed began. I did what the vet told me, and finally succeeded with picking his double shed off his tail.
Suddenly, Jojo became bright again and started to eat normally.
Lately, he had another shedding, but it was so problematic i decided to help him a bit. I thought i actually removed the dead skin. But the skin under it was kind of blueish and more slimy than usual.
I decided to stop on that, and later on, i saw that the exact place i took the skin off, was all black. It doesn't feel like a crust. It feels like a normal scales, but they're entirely black.
There are also several smaller shedding problem on his head (mostly casque, and one of the eyes. When i try to remove it he starts to shaking too much, so it's to dangerous to do it.
What can I do to help him regenerate the normal colour of his black scales? And also, how to make him eat crickets? I know that diet based on mealworms is very bad for them, but he just refuses to eat anything else.
Crickets or Cockroaches will always die sooner than he'll be interested to eat them. It is also worth to mention that at the moment when he's inside the tank, his skin is dark green, however if i pick him out of it, his skin becomes light green.
The new tank is 60x60x170cm.
UVB and Heat Lamp is provided.
The hottest place has around 30 Celcius.
The Humidity is mostly around 40%, however it is around 70% as the issues with shedding started to happen.
Fogger was purchased recently, earlier i was just sprinkling the water over the tank.
Jojo is fed using mealworms and crickets( however as i mentioned, he just dont eat them)
Calcium is provided with every meal, and two times a month, i suplement him with Reptivite vitamins.