oh gosh, he's NOT sleeping during the day. I'm sorry if I wrote that or implied it somewhere, no if he was sleeping during the day I would DEFINATELY have taken him into the vet ASAP. He will ONLY sleep after his lights have been turned off, and the ONLY time that he is on the ground is when he sleeps (not every night though, only some of the time, I've just noticed it more frequently). He's pretty active during the day, climbing around, stalking crickets. I let him come out every few days to climb around more, and his grip feels very strong, and he jets around like a maniac. If he sleeps on the ground at night, he will go down there after the lights have been turned off, and as soon as I turn his light on he will climb back up to the top of his cage under the heat lamp and wait for me to start giving him his morning crickets (he will eat at least a few them off of a spoon most of the time)
His crickets are gut loaded with a combo of things. I offer them flunker's gut load (it comes in orange cubes), a mixture of various vegetables (usually cale, collared greens, romaine lettuce, carrots, sometimes zucchini and cucumber, and then my vet rec'd throwing in some high quality dog food (such as eukanuba)). I dust them with "Repcal" daily and "reptavite" everyother day.
I bought hermie at the end of November, so about 3 months ago. He was VERY tiny at that age. I will admit that I got him from a pet store, that is known for having a good reputation with reptiles, though my vet did question at the time if he was really too young to be sold. He couldn't have been more than a month when I got him. I'd say he was between 2 and 4 weeks old when I got him, from looking at pictures of other chameleons. He barely had a crown on top of his head at all.
Since posting that message he spent one night on the ground, but the rest up in his branches.
There is a picture of him that I posted under the members pics maybe a week or so ago... he still looks like that (condition wise).
