splinter
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I just took him out to take some sun light and he went nuts. At the beginning he just move a little to stay out of the light and then he started to move all over the cage. When he stop he opened his mouth width and stay like that for a while. Then he went down to the dripper receiver ( I don't know if it was casualty) and he puts his mouth down ( it seems that he was drinking but I could not see) and felt in the water. I took the misting water and mist the cage but he went away like he did not like that, so I decided to take him away from the sun and put the dripper again in the cage but he did not went for water. Is it normal for them to open their mouth like that or it is a sign that he is thirsty?
I feed him 3 crickets a day and the guy seems to be hungry all the time. When he move up to the light he spent some time try to catch some insects that fly around the bulb. Am I giving him to little food? I don't know his age cause I forgot that question when I bought him but he seems to be pretty young. He is about 4 to 5 inches without the tail.
I also have turtles and took some of the dried worms from their food and put them in a topperware lid to see if the chameleon eat from them but he did not want to eat from that I also try some canned crickets but their are too big from him and seems I cut them in half, he did not eat them either. Is it posible to teach them to eat dead food? He seems to like everything that moves around him but nothing stationary.
Another thing that I'm not sure how to use is the mist bottle. He does not like to be mist so I just wet the plants around him. I believe that the purpose is to turn up the humidity so I do it like that. Is that the correct way to do it or should I wet him also even if he does not like it?
thanks for any help.
BTY I'm in Puerto Rico so the Temperature here is a bit higher (around 90 to 94 all the time so I only put him some UVB light)
I feed him 3 crickets a day and the guy seems to be hungry all the time. When he move up to the light he spent some time try to catch some insects that fly around the bulb. Am I giving him to little food? I don't know his age cause I forgot that question when I bought him but he seems to be pretty young. He is about 4 to 5 inches without the tail.
I also have turtles and took some of the dried worms from their food and put them in a topperware lid to see if the chameleon eat from them but he did not want to eat from that I also try some canned crickets but their are too big from him and seems I cut them in half, he did not eat them either. Is it posible to teach them to eat dead food? He seems to like everything that moves around him but nothing stationary.
Another thing that I'm not sure how to use is the mist bottle. He does not like to be mist so I just wet the plants around him. I believe that the purpose is to turn up the humidity so I do it like that. Is that the correct way to do it or should I wet him also even if he does not like it?
thanks for any help.
BTY I'm in Puerto Rico so the Temperature here is a bit higher (around 90 to 94 all the time so I only put him some UVB light)