Hello! It was suggested to me to ask for help here about my pygmy chameleons.
I have a pair of rhampholeon spectrum. I had bought a trio, but one female died a day after she arrived, and was replaced by the seller about 3 months later with a huge female.. and then promptly the original female died. I am still not sure why this happened, so I was going to get fecals from the pair I have left.
I had kept them in a lovely well planted 15 gallon aquarium with a screen lid and a 20 watt fluorescent over it. The substrate is a layer of cocofiber over fertilizer free potting mix. As it is in the basement, which can get just a little too chilly for them, I also have a small red heat lamp well above the cage that remains on 24/7. The temps are in the right range for them, low 70s to about 78 under the heat lamp, with a slight night drop. I was misting them twice a day, feeding them every 3 days, give or take, with quarter inch crickets.
Since I decided to get fecals, I took the male out and put him in a kritter keeper with a plastic viney plant and a paper towel for substrate. After taking him out of the main cage, I noticed the female acting a little strange.. sitting under the heat lamp all day, not moving around as much. Then within a few days she started having her eyes closed all day. She did manage to get around the tank, but not very often, and I couldn't tell if she was eating.
Then I noticed she is gravid. A very obvious egg lump in her side. So I took her out carefully and put her in her own critter keeper, with a plastic plant and a small tupperware of cocofiber for laying eggs. I keep the cage pretty dimly lit. I check on her and spray her cage down 3x a day. She seems to be doing somewhat better, as every time I check her when its daytime she has her eyes open. She does seem to eat, as the crickets disappear, and at times actively tries to escape out of the clear plastic part of the lid
However it was suggested to me to get some calcium drops to drip on her mouth for her to drink.. I tried the walgreens and they didn't have the right kind (glutomate), and the vet wouldn't give me any without seeing the animal (which I don't really want to subject her to that in her delicate state). So I looked around online and found this stuff called Calcium Supplement spray by Zilla. It it for spraying on the food, but it also says you can give it by mouth using a dropper. It has the calcium glutomate in it, but there are a few other things in there I'm not sure about.
So pretty much my question is: can I use the zilla calicum supplement?
Sorry for being so descriptive
I have a pair of rhampholeon spectrum. I had bought a trio, but one female died a day after she arrived, and was replaced by the seller about 3 months later with a huge female.. and then promptly the original female died. I am still not sure why this happened, so I was going to get fecals from the pair I have left.
I had kept them in a lovely well planted 15 gallon aquarium with a screen lid and a 20 watt fluorescent over it. The substrate is a layer of cocofiber over fertilizer free potting mix. As it is in the basement, which can get just a little too chilly for them, I also have a small red heat lamp well above the cage that remains on 24/7. The temps are in the right range for them, low 70s to about 78 under the heat lamp, with a slight night drop. I was misting them twice a day, feeding them every 3 days, give or take, with quarter inch crickets.
Since I decided to get fecals, I took the male out and put him in a kritter keeper with a plastic viney plant and a paper towel for substrate. After taking him out of the main cage, I noticed the female acting a little strange.. sitting under the heat lamp all day, not moving around as much. Then within a few days she started having her eyes closed all day. She did manage to get around the tank, but not very often, and I couldn't tell if she was eating.
Then I noticed she is gravid. A very obvious egg lump in her side. So I took her out carefully and put her in her own critter keeper, with a plastic plant and a small tupperware of cocofiber for laying eggs. I keep the cage pretty dimly lit. I check on her and spray her cage down 3x a day. She seems to be doing somewhat better, as every time I check her when its daytime she has her eyes open. She does seem to eat, as the crickets disappear, and at times actively tries to escape out of the clear plastic part of the lid
However it was suggested to me to get some calcium drops to drip on her mouth for her to drink.. I tried the walgreens and they didn't have the right kind (glutomate), and the vet wouldn't give me any without seeing the animal (which I don't really want to subject her to that in her delicate state). So I looked around online and found this stuff called Calcium Supplement spray by Zilla. It it for spraying on the food, but it also says you can give it by mouth using a dropper. It has the calcium glutomate in it, but there are a few other things in there I'm not sure about.
So pretty much my question is: can I use the zilla calicum supplement?
Sorry for being so descriptive
