Your Chameleon - Panther Chameleon - Male - 4 months old - 3 weeks in my care.
Handling - Maybe once a day, I've been trying to let him acclimate and decide when I handle him. I let him climb on to my hand if he wants to be handled. I try once a day. If he declines, I leave him be.
Feeding - Crickets gut loaded with Cricket Crack, approximately 10 daily. I try and adjust to what he is eating.
Supplements - I have been seeking a bit more clarity on this subject. In my area I can only find calcium with D3. Advice?
Watering - I have a dripper that drips onto a leaf right by an artificial vine he loves to go on which runs thru out the day. I also mist his cage before work and once in the afternoon. Admittedly I haven't seen him drink but have seen him leaning over by the leaf with water on it, just didn't hang around to long.
Fecal Description - Eh, very dark brown and white? Looks kind of like poo? Slightly moist but not watery, and he does it all the damn time from how often I clean it. He even tried to poo on my MacBook Pro once!
History - Being as he is only 4 months old and I've had him for 3 weeks the only history that I think is relevant is that he started showing early signs of RI yesterday.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - All screen, 18x18x36
Lighting - ReptiSun 5.0 15 inch linear bulb and a ZooMed basking light 75w 120v which both run on a 12 hour on/off schedule 730am-730pm on. The ReptiSun is across the top of the enclosure at the back side of it and the basking light is angled down from one corner toward the lower opposing corner to try and maximize it's effect at this point.
Temperature - Again, this is my obvious issue of weakness. His basking spot is about 87 at the hottest which ranges down to 79 on the far side of the top of his enclosure. As you go down from there so do the temps, all the way down to 69 at the soil level in his plant.
Humidity - Humidity runs about 50%, he just shed 5 days ago and it took him a very short time to do so I'd say as he wasn't shedding at all the previous night and by 830am when I checked on him he had completed the process.
Plants - I have a live hibiscus rosa-sinensis (peach if it matters) and a Exo Terra Jungle Vine which passes thru his basking area, drinking area and down to the floor of the enclosure passing thru the center of his plant in the process.
Placement - He's in the living room which might sound bad if you thought I was home a lot. He's about 20 feet from the nearest vent but I have that side of his enclosure covered so he doesn't get a direct draft. The ceiling fan is almost never on.
Location - Orlando, Florida.
Current Problem - I have breathing issues and cannot keep my apartment warmer than 74ish. This is where my issue arrises. I'm having trouble keeping his cage in the right temperature ranges. He has a basking area that's about 84-87 depending on where in it he is but then toward the bottom of his enclosure it goes all the way down to 68-71. He is still very active and eats plenty. He looks just as healthy as the day I got him and noticeably larger. I noticed yesterday when I had him out that when he opened his mouth to hiss at me his mouth made a popping noise as he opened up and I thought that was weird. When I went in for a closer look there was a bit of excess mucus in his mouth in tiny bubble form. I am a snake breeder and have a vet who specializes in chameleons and he has told me to raise the temps and see how he progresses in the next two days before setting up a possible treatment regiment as he doesn't like giving antibiotics to very young chameleons if it's unnecessary. So this is where I need your advice and help! I have tried covering 3 sides of his enclosure and the top to keep in the heat and that really doesn't seem to work at all. It's to cool this time of year to put him outside during the day and I'm running out of ideas. There is no room in my place that's really any warmer than the other. Oddly enough, my closet which has no vent in it at all is the coldest room in the apartment, usually around 69-71.
Handling - Maybe once a day, I've been trying to let him acclimate and decide when I handle him. I let him climb on to my hand if he wants to be handled. I try once a day. If he declines, I leave him be.
Feeding - Crickets gut loaded with Cricket Crack, approximately 10 daily. I try and adjust to what he is eating.
Supplements - I have been seeking a bit more clarity on this subject. In my area I can only find calcium with D3. Advice?
Watering - I have a dripper that drips onto a leaf right by an artificial vine he loves to go on which runs thru out the day. I also mist his cage before work and once in the afternoon. Admittedly I haven't seen him drink but have seen him leaning over by the leaf with water on it, just didn't hang around to long.
Fecal Description - Eh, very dark brown and white? Looks kind of like poo? Slightly moist but not watery, and he does it all the damn time from how often I clean it. He even tried to poo on my MacBook Pro once!
History - Being as he is only 4 months old and I've had him for 3 weeks the only history that I think is relevant is that he started showing early signs of RI yesterday.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - All screen, 18x18x36
Lighting - ReptiSun 5.0 15 inch linear bulb and a ZooMed basking light 75w 120v which both run on a 12 hour on/off schedule 730am-730pm on. The ReptiSun is across the top of the enclosure at the back side of it and the basking light is angled down from one corner toward the lower opposing corner to try and maximize it's effect at this point.
Temperature - Again, this is my obvious issue of weakness. His basking spot is about 87 at the hottest which ranges down to 79 on the far side of the top of his enclosure. As you go down from there so do the temps, all the way down to 69 at the soil level in his plant.
Humidity - Humidity runs about 50%, he just shed 5 days ago and it took him a very short time to do so I'd say as he wasn't shedding at all the previous night and by 830am when I checked on him he had completed the process.
Plants - I have a live hibiscus rosa-sinensis (peach if it matters) and a Exo Terra Jungle Vine which passes thru his basking area, drinking area and down to the floor of the enclosure passing thru the center of his plant in the process.
Placement - He's in the living room which might sound bad if you thought I was home a lot. He's about 20 feet from the nearest vent but I have that side of his enclosure covered so he doesn't get a direct draft. The ceiling fan is almost never on.
Location - Orlando, Florida.
Current Problem - I have breathing issues and cannot keep my apartment warmer than 74ish. This is where my issue arrises. I'm having trouble keeping his cage in the right temperature ranges. He has a basking area that's about 84-87 depending on where in it he is but then toward the bottom of his enclosure it goes all the way down to 68-71. He is still very active and eats plenty. He looks just as healthy as the day I got him and noticeably larger. I noticed yesterday when I had him out that when he opened his mouth to hiss at me his mouth made a popping noise as he opened up and I thought that was weird. When I went in for a closer look there was a bit of excess mucus in his mouth in tiny bubble form. I am a snake breeder and have a vet who specializes in chameleons and he has told me to raise the temps and see how he progresses in the next two days before setting up a possible treatment regiment as he doesn't like giving antibiotics to very young chameleons if it's unnecessary. So this is where I need your advice and help! I have tried covering 3 sides of his enclosure and the top to keep in the heat and that really doesn't seem to work at all. It's to cool this time of year to put him outside during the day and I'm running out of ideas. There is no room in my place that's really any warmer than the other. Oddly enough, my closet which has no vent in it at all is the coldest room in the apartment, usually around 69-71.
