corynnonthecob
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Hello All! im back with an update! i added a few bigger plants and changed the lighting on my big cage, and added more branches. it is not nearly as awesome as I need it to be, but it's getting there! it's an update on my cage and my chameleon's symptoms.
the big cage has a SANSI flood light, given as an early Christmas present. I'm still using the blue grow light right now, in addition, for optimal growth and plant establishment. I'm fertilizing the plants and working on getting some rocks for over the dirt (big ones she can't eat). i have a timer going already so the lights don't keep her up or get forgotten with my school days being wack.
the cage has 5 more sticks, making the total 8, (sounds pitiful, but some are a big branches with many smaller branches spreading out) ranging from top to bottom. it has plants all the way to the top of the cage, starting from close to the bottom. there are 3 new plants. a gardenia, a norfolk island pine, and a baby ficus I previously had in my window.
But corynn! what about the sap? i have no idea. i found a list of safe plants and it had norfolk island pine on there, but every site I look up on the computer I have (issued from my school district) is blocked. How on earth sap means mature content, I don't know, but I need a bit of guidance. the spines are a good spacing for hands and the leaves are soft and bendy, but I don't know how safe this is sap-wise, and if she'll eat it.
Update on symptoms: Good News! my baby girl is doing great. i put that UVB light on her and she seemed to be attracted to it almost immediately. she has been perkier and sleeping less during the day, down to only once since I have found her asleep, and she woke back up right when I walked up. she is eating crickets and black soldier fly larvae religiously and has supplements of reptivite and D3 added into the mix for supplementation. she's been having poops with almost no orange and I see her eat and drink a lot. she even ate from our hands!
thanks everybody! you are all very helpful and I would be nowhere without you guys!
the big cage has a SANSI flood light, given as an early Christmas present. I'm still using the blue grow light right now, in addition, for optimal growth and plant establishment. I'm fertilizing the plants and working on getting some rocks for over the dirt (big ones she can't eat). i have a timer going already so the lights don't keep her up or get forgotten with my school days being wack.
the cage has 5 more sticks, making the total 8, (sounds pitiful, but some are a big branches with many smaller branches spreading out) ranging from top to bottom. it has plants all the way to the top of the cage, starting from close to the bottom. there are 3 new plants. a gardenia, a norfolk island pine, and a baby ficus I previously had in my window.
But corynn! what about the sap? i have no idea. i found a list of safe plants and it had norfolk island pine on there, but every site I look up on the computer I have (issued from my school district) is blocked. How on earth sap means mature content, I don't know, but I need a bit of guidance. the spines are a good spacing for hands and the leaves are soft and bendy, but I don't know how safe this is sap-wise, and if she'll eat it.
Update on symptoms: Good News! my baby girl is doing great. i put that UVB light on her and she seemed to be attracted to it almost immediately. she has been perkier and sleeping less during the day, down to only once since I have found her asleep, and she woke back up right when I walked up. she is eating crickets and black soldier fly larvae religiously and has supplements of reptivite and D3 added into the mix for supplementation. she's been having poops with almost no orange and I see her eat and drink a lot. she even ate from our hands!
thanks everybody! you are all very helpful and I would be nowhere without you guys!