Your Chameleon - Male aprx 5-6months old
Handling - we have yet to handle
Feeding - small crickets and small silk worms
Supplements - calcium poweder
Watering - water fall system
Fecal Description - bown with white "sac" semi solid
History - just bought him from the pet store two weeks ago
Cage Info:
Cage Type - glass 20gal
Lighting - 5.0 uvb reptiglo and a 50w sunglo basking light
Temperature - 90 in basking area, 80- 85 in majority of tank, 75 at bottom. Night tempuratures drop about 5 degrees, never goes under 70
Humidity - we try to keep it at 50% however this takes a lot of mistings to achieve, up to 6 times a day
Plants - one live plant (not sure the type but is the same kind in the chameleon cage at the pet store.) round leaves grows simillar to vines, very common. looks like:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/syllabi/302/new/graphics/P/philodendron.gif
Placement - on a side table
Location - ontario canada
Current Problem -
We bought a veiled chameleon two weeks ago, it seemed fine the few two maybe three days, then we noticed that it would close its right eye and begin to not eat anything. The situation progressed and now currently he keeps both of his eyes closed. In the time we have had him, we only wittnesed him eating 3 or 4 times the most recent being two days ago, which surprised us but made us very happy. There is always crickets available to him as they just roam the cage, and we will periodically put in some silkworms however he does not show much intrest in eating.
He still trys to be active, he roams blindly about his cage grasping for sticks that arent there, however his eyes are not crusted over and he can still open them. In fact he has begun to open his eyes more within the past couple days however still chooses to leave them shut. He will also buldge his eyes forward, open his eyes slightly and roll them back into place.
As far as I know we are doing everything right but any advice that could help us get this little guy back to 100% would be greatly apriciated. What we are doing right now is making sure his tempuratures are correct and keeping the humidity level up as much as we can. The apartment does seem to be dry, could the reason he isnt opening his eyes be the dryness in the apt? Could it be fixed with say a fog machine in the cage?
For the most part he looks healthy but we are worried and want to fix this before any other symptoms apear.
Thank you
Handling - we have yet to handle
Feeding - small crickets and small silk worms
Supplements - calcium poweder
Watering - water fall system
Fecal Description - bown with white "sac" semi solid
History - just bought him from the pet store two weeks ago
Cage Info:
Cage Type - glass 20gal
Lighting - 5.0 uvb reptiglo and a 50w sunglo basking light
Temperature - 90 in basking area, 80- 85 in majority of tank, 75 at bottom. Night tempuratures drop about 5 degrees, never goes under 70
Humidity - we try to keep it at 50% however this takes a lot of mistings to achieve, up to 6 times a day
Plants - one live plant (not sure the type but is the same kind in the chameleon cage at the pet store.) round leaves grows simillar to vines, very common. looks like:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/syllabi/302/new/graphics/P/philodendron.gif
Placement - on a side table
Location - ontario canada
Current Problem -
We bought a veiled chameleon two weeks ago, it seemed fine the few two maybe three days, then we noticed that it would close its right eye and begin to not eat anything. The situation progressed and now currently he keeps both of his eyes closed. In the time we have had him, we only wittnesed him eating 3 or 4 times the most recent being two days ago, which surprised us but made us very happy. There is always crickets available to him as they just roam the cage, and we will periodically put in some silkworms however he does not show much intrest in eating.
He still trys to be active, he roams blindly about his cage grasping for sticks that arent there, however his eyes are not crusted over and he can still open them. In fact he has begun to open his eyes more within the past couple days however still chooses to leave them shut. He will also buldge his eyes forward, open his eyes slightly and roll them back into place.
As far as I know we are doing everything right but any advice that could help us get this little guy back to 100% would be greatly apriciated. What we are doing right now is making sure his tempuratures are correct and keeping the humidity level up as much as we can. The apartment does seem to be dry, could the reason he isnt opening his eyes be the dryness in the apt? Could it be fixed with say a fog machine in the cage?
For the most part he looks healthy but we are worried and want to fix this before any other symptoms apear.
Thank you