Hi, over the past two weeks I've purchased a male jackson chameleon. He's probably at the year mark almost now, and seems healthy. My main concern is to figure out if dark colors always indicates stress. My jackson will chill in his cage and be bright emerald green and then other times he will be dark green, with a brown pattern. Is this stress or camouflage?
Stress or Camouflage
- Thread starter ol breeze
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Not necessarily. He sometimes is basking on a vine, and is a bright green where other times hes darker colors. The bottom of his cage is around 65 degrees, and the top, where its closest to his heat lamp, is around 73. I got the uvb light and heat light on a 12 on, 12 off schedule. Would you think it's a temperature problem.
carol5208
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It is hard to say, but I know my chamelon when he is not basking stays super dark when he is in his cage. Cage temp around 73 and he likes to hang out on the bottom branch. When I pick him up to take him outside, his body is really cold! Even his eyes are black. As soon as I get him onto my patio and the heat(I live in FLA) or outside in his outdoor cage he changes like instantly. That is why I ws thinking that. I mean if you are doing nothing to stress him out and there is nothing in the surrounding room that could be causes stress, then I would say maybe a temp thing. What is his basking temp then? If your saying 73 is his basking then I would raise that some.
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