Perla Adams
New Member
Hello:
I live in Saudi Arabia. Three weeks ago we bought a Veiled Chameleon in the local PetShop (I don’t know his age, he measure like 4 inch without the tail). The Chameleon was healthy and very bright green in the store, but a couple days after we bring it home, he started to change color and look dark and sad.
In the Pet shop, they sell me a bottle of pellets (Aquafin food for all kind of iguana) and a tube of fruit paste. They told that each day, I need to wet few pellets; make a little ball and then, open the chameleon’s mouth and put the ball inside.
I try that method once but my poor chameleon was very unhappy and I feel that I was hurting him. So, there were few days when he was not eating anything (I placed vegetables in a bowl but he never touches them). One day, l we catch a fly and he immediately ate it. We started to look for flies but it is not easy to find them since we are in the summer, here is very hot. In general, there are not many insects in my house. Occasionally we found some small cucarachas (3 or 4 in a week), he eat those.
Since he looks very thin, I tried again with the force feeding method. After I feed him that way, he looks very upset, very dark. After I feed him by force, he does not want to eat the flies or cucarachas ( we have a closed tank so he can hunt the live cucarachas inside there).
My local pet shop does not sell crickets. I order a bottle of dry crickets online but it will take few weeks before they arrive, in the mean time I need to do something to keep the chameleon alive.
Can some of you with more experience give me some tips? I bought a book about chameleons, I investigate online, and I never find anything about force feeding.
Just as addition information, I want to mention that I do I spray the cage (wire cage) 3 times per day, I also have a dish with water (sometimes he visit the dish and lick some water, In the pet shop they told me that I should put water in a dish butt I read in several places that they do not drink from dishes)). Two days ago, I placed one of those rodents’ water bottles (the one with the metal ball), yesterday, he licked from there, but not today. Sometimes, I take the chameleon to an outdoor bush, and spray water, he lick the leaves. At night, I turn on a reptile light in his cage, so he can be warm. In the day, I have the cage in a place where he can receive indirect sun light and is warm.
Bye for now
I live in Saudi Arabia. Three weeks ago we bought a Veiled Chameleon in the local PetShop (I don’t know his age, he measure like 4 inch without the tail). The Chameleon was healthy and very bright green in the store, but a couple days after we bring it home, he started to change color and look dark and sad.
In the Pet shop, they sell me a bottle of pellets (Aquafin food for all kind of iguana) and a tube of fruit paste. They told that each day, I need to wet few pellets; make a little ball and then, open the chameleon’s mouth and put the ball inside.
I try that method once but my poor chameleon was very unhappy and I feel that I was hurting him. So, there were few days when he was not eating anything (I placed vegetables in a bowl but he never touches them). One day, l we catch a fly and he immediately ate it. We started to look for flies but it is not easy to find them since we are in the summer, here is very hot. In general, there are not many insects in my house. Occasionally we found some small cucarachas (3 or 4 in a week), he eat those.
Since he looks very thin, I tried again with the force feeding method. After I feed him that way, he looks very upset, very dark. After I feed him by force, he does not want to eat the flies or cucarachas ( we have a closed tank so he can hunt the live cucarachas inside there).
My local pet shop does not sell crickets. I order a bottle of dry crickets online but it will take few weeks before they arrive, in the mean time I need to do something to keep the chameleon alive.
Can some of you with more experience give me some tips? I bought a book about chameleons, I investigate online, and I never find anything about force feeding.
Just as addition information, I want to mention that I do I spray the cage (wire cage) 3 times per day, I also have a dish with water (sometimes he visit the dish and lick some water, In the pet shop they told me that I should put water in a dish butt I read in several places that they do not drink from dishes)). Two days ago, I placed one of those rodents’ water bottles (the one with the metal ball), yesterday, he licked from there, but not today. Sometimes, I take the chameleon to an outdoor bush, and spray water, he lick the leaves. At night, I turn on a reptile light in his cage, so he can be warm. In the day, I have the cage in a place where he can receive indirect sun light and is warm.
Bye for now