SilverWolf
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Jackson Chameleon, male, one year old. Been in my care for almost one year.
Handling - When I hold my hand out he will walk on it all the time. However, I tend to only handle him when I want to take him out to eat or if I am taking outside for some natural sunlight. I never handle him if he appears stressed and he never seems to be when he's with me.
Feeding - Medium sized crickets usually, but they vary in size. I feed him 4 - 6 a day but the past few days he has only eaten two a day, because he does not seem interested in them, unless they're in a container or if they're in my hand. Before, he'd eat a cricket no matter what. Now he only eats it if it's out of my hand and he will just walk over and look at the ones in a container. When he does eat out of my hand, they sometimes fall to the bottom and hide and I cannot get them. If they ever crawl in plain site the next day (and they do sometimes) he doesn't seem to care about them.
Supplements - Exoterra. Calcium, powdered on crickets once a week.
Watering - I mist quite often to ensure the humidity never is too low, and he has plenty of water to drink off of the leaves. He also always tries to go to the bottle to get water, so he often drinks straight from my spray bottle.
Fecal Description - Urates white, sometimes half of it orange, and fecal matter seems fine, like brown beans.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Zoomed screen cage, 18x18x36.
Lighting - Reptisun 5.0, Zoomed 60w Daylight Blue bulb. Both are on 10-12 hours during day, off all night.
Temperature - Temperature at basking spot around 82 degrees fahrenheit. Restof the cage around 75 or so in fahrenheit, and the temperature drops to about 65 degrees fahrenheit at night time.
Humidity - 60 - 70 Percent. Misting with spray bottle very often.
Plants - Pothos
Placement - Cage about 58 inches off ground, on a sort of dresser (more of cubby holes though) and next to some gaming consoles and a television, that do not affect the temperature. Also next to a window.
Location - California.
So the most concerning thing...he has his eyes closed every other time I look at him
Like right now! Behind me, he's sleeping. Or at least both of his eyes are closed. He gets full sleep at night, all the lights are off. Now they're open, and he's looking around.
Aside from this, he seems perfectly fine and healthy. There is literally nothing else that concerns me. He has some dead skin on one of his spines that never seemed to go away no matter how many times he has shed over the months but other than that, just some dead skin on his head and neck from the last shed but I am sure it will come off eventually. He has been itching his head on branches every now and then but not profusely.
Here's a few pictures of him that I just took, in case any of you notice something that I have not:
Your Chameleon - Jackson Chameleon, male, one year old. Been in my care for almost one year.
Handling - When I hold my hand out he will walk on it all the time. However, I tend to only handle him when I want to take him out to eat or if I am taking outside for some natural sunlight. I never handle him if he appears stressed and he never seems to be when he's with me.
Feeding - Medium sized crickets usually, but they vary in size. I feed him 4 - 6 a day but the past few days he has only eaten two a day, because he does not seem interested in them, unless they're in a container or if they're in my hand. Before, he'd eat a cricket no matter what. Now he only eats it if it's out of my hand and he will just walk over and look at the ones in a container. When he does eat out of my hand, they sometimes fall to the bottom and hide and I cannot get them. If they ever crawl in plain site the next day (and they do sometimes) he doesn't seem to care about them.
Supplements - Exoterra. Calcium, powdered on crickets once a week.
Watering - I mist quite often to ensure the humidity never is too low, and he has plenty of water to drink off of the leaves. He also always tries to go to the bottle to get water, so he often drinks straight from my spray bottle.
Fecal Description - Urates white, sometimes half of it orange, and fecal matter seems fine, like brown beans.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Zoomed screen cage, 18x18x36.
Lighting - Reptisun 5.0, Zoomed 60w Daylight Blue bulb. Both are on 10-12 hours during day, off all night.
Temperature - Temperature at basking spot around 82 degrees fahrenheit. Restof the cage around 75 or so in fahrenheit, and the temperature drops to about 65 degrees fahrenheit at night time.
Humidity - 60 - 70 Percent. Misting with spray bottle very often.
Plants - Pothos
Placement - Cage about 58 inches off ground, on a sort of dresser (more of cubby holes though) and next to some gaming consoles and a television, that do not affect the temperature. Also next to a window.
Location - California.
So the most concerning thing...he has his eyes closed every other time I look at him
Like right now! Behind me, he's sleeping. Or at least both of his eyes are closed. He gets full sleep at night, all the lights are off. Now they're open, and he's looking around.
Aside from this, he seems perfectly fine and healthy. There is literally nothing else that concerns me. He has some dead skin on one of his spines that never seemed to go away no matter how many times he has shed over the months but other than that, just some dead skin on his head and neck from the last shed but I am sure it will come off eventually. He has been itching his head on branches every now and then but not profusely.
Here's a few pictures of him that I just took, in case any of you notice something that I have not:
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