How do you guys feel about showering with a chameleon
Sounds kinky.
I’m a big fan of showering chams but your jax is too small for that and for now I wouldn’t bother with the steam in the bathroom either.
Wait until it’s much bigger. Here is the rub on showering …
I do it once a week for my male veiled and male carpet. I get an immediate drinking response from both, they show relaxed colors, clean their eyes the whole time … really seem to dig it.
Showering IMO is a “catch all” and ensures proper hydration but should not be a primary source for water. Showers also help them keep themselves clean, clean their eyes and helps with a stubborn shed or shedding in general.
Put a LARGE plant in the shower and line the bottom of the tub with bubble-wrap – it’s cheap and easy to find. The first several times the cham may get jittery and take a fall – so the bubble wrap should prevent an injury
If you have high water pressure then bounce the water off the wall so it hits the plant. Be SUPER careful with the water temp … barely warm. If you have an old house and when someone flushes the toilet/whatever and it drastically increases the shower temp then you have to be mindful of that.
If excessive water pools and doesn’t drain then you need to do something about that. Any pooling water in the tub could potentially drown the cham. That’s why it’s best to wait until they are bigger.
First few times you need to be sneaky and watch the cham without it seeing you (one eye looking behind the curtain). You have to know how it’s reacting and many times they don’t like it but given a few sessions they may end up really enjoying it. So if after say 7 or 8 attempts the cham doesn’t settle in, dropping/crawling to ground, basically acting pi$$ed then its probably a lost cause but I encourage you to try again several months later. Case in point my female carpet – never would settle in and relax, a stressful event, so I stopped.
Once you are sure the cham has taken to showering then you can consider removing the bubble-wrap but sometimes it just better to be on the safe side.
I strongly feel that the pros outweigh the cons with this routine. Sure you have to handle the cham but kill two birds with one stone and take the time to examine it and make sure there are no burns, lumps, swelling, nail problems, etc.
-roo
. And yea I read what happened and I feel so sad for your cham. Its like when I saw a dog with paralyzed legs dragging half its body on wheels 
