Question about normal defecation :( help!

Rango09

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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled, male, 7 months, had him since he was around 2 months old
Handling - have been handling him everyday these past months because of medication administration
Feeding - Feeding him crickets 7 once a day every other day and meal worms, gut loading them with the fluckers gut loading formula.
Supplements - flukers powder Vit. C + D3 powder crickets every other day, Giving Fluckers liquid multivitamin 3 times a week.
Watering - Sometimes I put ice on the top of the cage where plants are, but humidifier is on and that wets the leaves, if not I mist them twice a day
Fecal Description - Feces is dark brown, urine portion is white with more yellow
History - He had a bacterial infection about a month ago, was given Baytril once a day for 5 days...

Cage Info:
Cage Type - all screen 30x16x16
Lighting - i use exo terra lighting, both UVB and heat lamp are on all day (12 hours) unless, temp gets to hot then I turn off the heat lamp
Temperature - usual basking is >80 if not equal too, at night it does not get lower than 60
Humidity - i have a fogger on most of the time, and a spray leaves at least twice a day, hvnt had a fogger the whole time though, had one in the beginning and past month had to hand spray due to fogger break down, level i try and keep >50
Plants - just recently put a live plant, about to add another one, small camelia tree for now, have a habiscus that I want to put in
Placement - Cage was in my living room since the beginning, switched today to my room,
Location - Southern California

Current Problem - well, my Rango was having eye problems these past couple of months, since then he sees perfect! My concern is that he is not defecating like before, since he got sick I rarely see any feces lying around, and if I do see some, I clean it to keep track. He has pooped one time these past two weeks, I have reaserched and have not gotten very far. Would like to know how often are they suppose to defecate since he is now eating every other day.
 
Well....we've seen stories of chameleons going weeks without pooping (and, oh, the poop that is produced!) so I don't know that I would be overly worried yet.

You might not find poop...they can be good about pooping in places you won't look. It's all part of their plan to drive us insane.
 
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