Chameleon Info:
• Your Chameleon – Male, Panther Cham, 1.5yrs old, been in my care since 3mths old
• Handling – Handle 1-2times a week – very social animal
• Feeding – Dusting crickets and feeding 4-5 medium brown dusted crickets every 2-3 days
• Supplements – Calcium dusting (British brand)
• Watering – Mist every other day, he feeds from the mister and comes to the nozzle to drink directly from it every 2-3 days?
• Fecal Description – Brown with white/cream ends
• History – Always had one eye that he tends to keep closed a lot. To date has been active, feeding, drinking and ‘normal’.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – Exoterra glass viv 60x45x60
• Lighting – Exoterra lighting box with one UVB strip and one UVA strip plus 2 halogen bulbs as heat – controlled with temperature/thermostat, ambient temp is 70
• Temperature – temp range between 60 at night to 70-80 during the day
• Humidity – Currently don’t have a measure on humidity. Mist every other day with watered real plants in the viv
• Plants – Live plants – 2x figs, 1xfern
• Placement – Viv on sideboard in open planned living room. Been in the same position since we got him
• Location – Near London England, in the country side on a farm
Current Problem – In the past two weeks he has become increasingly quiet. He keeps both eyes closed and has taken to sitting at the bottom of the viv – looking like he is asleep. I held him yesterday and he opened both eyes and was walking around on my hands/arms/head as normal and looked his happy self. As soon as he returned to the viv he hung around on the vines for a while but then made his way back to the bottom of the viv, curled his tail up and went to sleep against the stalk of the one of the plants. He has stayed there all day today. I have heavily misted the viv tonight and he has been drinking the droplets of water that are falling near him. I did this for 5 minutes. He briefly opened his eyes but had them closed for the majority of the time.
There have been no changes to his environment – he is due to shed but has never been this withdrawn when he has been due before. He is not a very stressed animal and normally presents vivid greens, whites and yellows. He has developed some blacks and darker tones to his skin since this episode began.
After reading through the forums I figure he may be a little dehydrated. He last ate 3 days ago. Due to him being withdrawn I haven’t fed him today as I figured the crickets would just annoy him and would walk around the tank.
Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. We don’t have a reptile vet near us so really need to self diagnose. Thanks
• Your Chameleon – Male, Panther Cham, 1.5yrs old, been in my care since 3mths old
• Handling – Handle 1-2times a week – very social animal
• Feeding – Dusting crickets and feeding 4-5 medium brown dusted crickets every 2-3 days
• Supplements – Calcium dusting (British brand)
• Watering – Mist every other day, he feeds from the mister and comes to the nozzle to drink directly from it every 2-3 days?
• Fecal Description – Brown with white/cream ends
• History – Always had one eye that he tends to keep closed a lot. To date has been active, feeding, drinking and ‘normal’.
Cage Info:
• Cage Type – Exoterra glass viv 60x45x60
• Lighting – Exoterra lighting box with one UVB strip and one UVA strip plus 2 halogen bulbs as heat – controlled with temperature/thermostat, ambient temp is 70
• Temperature – temp range between 60 at night to 70-80 during the day
• Humidity – Currently don’t have a measure on humidity. Mist every other day with watered real plants in the viv
• Plants – Live plants – 2x figs, 1xfern
• Placement – Viv on sideboard in open planned living room. Been in the same position since we got him
• Location – Near London England, in the country side on a farm
Current Problem – In the past two weeks he has become increasingly quiet. He keeps both eyes closed and has taken to sitting at the bottom of the viv – looking like he is asleep. I held him yesterday and he opened both eyes and was walking around on my hands/arms/head as normal and looked his happy self. As soon as he returned to the viv he hung around on the vines for a while but then made his way back to the bottom of the viv, curled his tail up and went to sleep against the stalk of the one of the plants. He has stayed there all day today. I have heavily misted the viv tonight and he has been drinking the droplets of water that are falling near him. I did this for 5 minutes. He briefly opened his eyes but had them closed for the majority of the time.
There have been no changes to his environment – he is due to shed but has never been this withdrawn when he has been due before. He is not a very stressed animal and normally presents vivid greens, whites and yellows. He has developed some blacks and darker tones to his skin since this episode began.
After reading through the forums I figure he may be a little dehydrated. He last ate 3 days ago. Due to him being withdrawn I haven’t fed him today as I figured the crickets would just annoy him and would walk around the tank.
Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. We don’t have a reptile vet near us so really need to self diagnose. Thanks
