Now that your beautiful little girl has laid her eggs let’s do a husbandry review and see if we can help you with your hydration system.
Chameleon Info:
- Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
- Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
- Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
- Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with, and what is the schedule?
- Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long do you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
- Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
- History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
- Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
- Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
- Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
- Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
- Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high-traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
- Location - Where are you geographically located?
Current Problem -
My Chameleon: 2.5 yr old Veiled Chameleon, Gender: Was technically unknown however the Vet and I suspected Female due to her appearance, and I've treated her as female for those years. Even had a lay bin in there up until last October. There is a reason for that but for another story time. She has been in my care for over 2 years. We brought her home at when we believed her to have been 6 months old. I bought her at a pet store I used to work at, she was the favorite of the store, well beloved. I now work at a Vet clinic myself.
Handling: I do not handle my chameleon, I give her plenty of space, I do NOT tweezer feed her. I do however semi hand feed her with a small plastic bowl/plate. I prefer to have to handle her only via cage care and vet visit as minimal as possible so as not to caus stress. She does not prefer to be handled.
Feeding and Supplements: I feed my Cham Dubia roaches 5/8-3/4 inches. The amount varies, anywhere between 6-8 roaches every other day or every other 2 days. The feeders are gut loaded with carrot. I dont give the feeders supplement because they would keep dieing. Example: my large crickets especially. I supplement my cham by dusting the feeders with Repashy Vitamin A, Reptivite, Calcium plus with vitamin D, or Calcium without Vitamin D. I give this once a week and every other week. I have a reptile calender of my feeding days and with which supplements I can take a picture of later. She'll eat once a day every other day. Sometimes every other 2 days.
Water: Prior to egg laying she had a dripper that for years was great but was giving us issues, with the flow, not getting onto the leaves as much, it'd either drain out too fast, or lil to not at all, she would actually go to the bottom to drink the water and we didnt want that. So we found that water leaf fountain picture I attached in previous chat from Amazon and we have seen her drink from it. I'm thinking of including the dripper along with the foubtain. We do mist 2-3 times a day with warm water mixed with repti-safe.
Fecal: She has never been tested for parasites. She's always gone a lot of urate and fecal. It's usually yellow and white and brown. The time we had noiced orange was when she wasn't getting enough from the dripper and the misting was only doing so much so we msited more often in that period of time and she went back to normal with the fountain added in.
History: Not really. Ive had her 2 years. She wasnt in pet store for long, we took her home within 1-3 weeks of her arrival or so. She was last seen by a vet 2 years ago and diagnosed as healthy. She's always been healthy, eating, drinking, defecating, urinating normally. We have upgraded her habitat several times. And communicated with a vet over the years and experienced ones.
