Very light pink tongue, almost white..

[Eyal]

Cage Info:

* Cage Type - Flexarium 175 gallon
* Lighting - House boulb and UV compact 5.0, 23 W
* Temperature - It is about 27 Celcius in terrarium , and 30 basking
* Humidity - Spraying approx. 3 times a day, it gets like 60-70 % when i spray
* Plants - Hibiscus, fake vines from Exo terra
* Location - The top is about 165 cm above the ground


Chameleon Info:

* Your Chameleon - Male Veiled cham, 7 months, i have had him for 2 weeks
* Handling - Not so often
* Feeding - Crickets, about 5 a day. He is learning to get more. Lights on at 8 a clock in the morning, then feeding then spray. Gutloaded with potatoes, wheat grains, roman sallad and carrots.
* Supplements - Once a week with vitamin d13, minerals and calcium
* Watering - I spray 3 times a day, for 5 minutes each. Got a dripper all day when im in school. I havnt seen him drink yet..
* Fecal Description - He's poop is very nice , its all black, digested and pure white mineral comes along with it, none orange stuff. He is not tested for any parasites, dont think he has..
* History - He has been fed with alot of zoophobas from his old owner. Im only giving crix now with gutload.
* Current Problem - His tongue looks a bit white? He just missed his cricket. He shoots a bit too close from the feeder.. ??
Is this normal?

 

[Jam]

Cute little guy! reminds eme of mine when he was a little guy ... awwwe. Anyways To me his tounge looks normal, but that's just comparing him to mine.

 

[kinyonga]

Compact lights can cause eye problems.

Your supplement schedule needs to be changed....its recommended that you dust at most feedings with a phos.-free calcium powder, twice a month with a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder and twice a month with a vitamin powder with a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

The tongue looks fine to me....but he should be able to shoot his tongue out far enough to hit the cricket.

 

[Eyal]

Compact lights can cause eye problems.

Your supplement schedule needs to be changed....its recommended that you dust at most feedings with a phos.-free calcium powder, twice a month with a phos.-free calcium/D3 powder and twice a month with a vitamin powder with a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

The tongue looks fine to me....but he should be able to shoot his tongue out far enough to hit the cricket.

ya i know the compact thing.. Im going to change it as soon as i can find tube ramp. :O phosfor free?? But they need fosfor for the intake of the uv?? :O.
Ok thanks kinyonga! , im getting all the powder when i get my money.
Thanks !

And he can shoot with his tongue , it just looks whiter than my female.

 

[tryme]

This is my schedule which works well for me (my veiled is about a year old now)

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3-5 insects every other day

Monday - Calcium
Tuesday - No feeding
Wed - Calcium
Thursday - No feeding
Friday - Calcium
Saterday -No feeding OR Multivit 1st Saterday of month and 3rd Sat of month
Sunday - No supplimenting

My multi vit contains D3 etc.

 

[Dave Weldon]

...phosfor free?? But they need fosfor for the intake of the uv??...

Howdy David,

Among other things, chameleons do need phosphor, calcium, Vit D3 (D3 triggered by UVB and necessary for calcium uptake) etc. The problem is that our typically available feeders like crickets, superworms etc. all contain too much phosphor already so we don't want to add any more .

 

[Eyal]

Thanks all I will be updating my supplement, thanks for explanation Dave