Matt Vanilla Gorilla
Chameleon Enthusiast
What is that blue light on the bottom (on the left) of the cage? Is that light on at night?
sleeping during the day
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VeiledChameleonNiko
New Member
Do you think you could try and help me with my problem with my Veiled? I have a thread posted.
The light is from the fogger...read i n the same post as the photo and you'll see it there.
Jax_Cham_MAN
Member
the red light could be your big problem when i used a red light my chameleons had to shut their eyes a lot
Jax_Cham_MAN
Member
also i don't think you handle him like you said he fell asleep on your finger, because he likely fell asleep on your finger from stress
EveryGreen
Established Member
you shouldnt really handle them when their so young. has he gotten time to adapt to his cage yet?
The red light was added after it started closing its eye...so it's not likely that.
Too much carrot in the insect food/gutload won't be a problem...the vitamin A from carrot is beta carotene and cannot overdose. Beta carotene is converted to vitamin A as needed. Hard to know if the chameleon has a deficiency at that age.
leedragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
but chameleon can not convert beta carroten to vitamin a. Maybe be so but I was more aiming that I have read that one should take it easy with carrots when gutloading for chameleons. Also I have friend who deal with similar problems with his trioceros nonates closing their Eyes after a couple of weeks of been born. he fixed the problem when he started to give them some dripps of vitamin A oil. so it could be lack of vitamin A or it could not be.
leedragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
yeah, I wasn´t clear about the carrots. what i was saying (not really on the topic) is that to much carrots are bad for chameleon aswell due gout I belive?
I'd be interested in reading studies about carrots being bad for chameleons. This info keeps dropping up but I've never known why. As for gout...carrots are low in uric acid and are actually recommended for people to eat when they have gout...read under vegetable juices...
http://selfsufficientlifestyle.com/10-powerful-foods-that-lower-uric-acid-levels/
One more...
http://juicing-for-health.com/health-benefits-of-carrot
http://selfsufficientlifestyle.com/10-powerful-foods-that-lower-uric-acid-levels/
One more...
http://juicing-for-health.com/health-benefits-of-carrot
leedragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
hm that was interesting. thanks for sharing.
