I am not
Going to make it cheap.
I am very serious in what I tell you and all what I tell you is Motivated by love and respect and aimed to explain you how to think proper way about the situation. There is nothing bad intended, no offense, no hurt. Just truth and responsibility.
If yiu accept this, pleas read further otherwise skip it.
Noone is telling you anything here to patronize you.
All the aid here is directed to the
Benefit of your chameleon and to the benefit of you as an inexperienced keeper, so that you have great experience keeping a chameleon.
I am not going to tell you what to do
Istead, I will explain you what happens
And you take a Wise decision hopefully at the end if my speech.
So, first,
Misting at daytime is wrong.
Especially at lights on.
The combination of high temperatures and high humidity is a deadly trap for a chameleon,
As it increases the probability of respiratory infections that are lethal in many cases by maybe 1000
Times. The effect of this is cumulative. So,
If you do for several days, it is just a matter of time when your chameleon will die.
You are smart enough not to cut the throat of your chameleon with a blade, because he would die.
So, if yiu mist at daytime, he will die too.
No difference.
The statement “I believe he will be OK” is not a magical formula that will prevent the inevitable
Ill-effect of what brings the wrong and deadly misting at daytime.
Second
You have a captive chameleon. It is not a toy. It is a living creature. You have responsibility for it. And it has its requirements
Me myself and all the people here can have understanding for circumstances, why you can not do this and this and can pardon you and say: yes, sure, we understand.
I assure you, the one in the cage will NOT understand and will NOT pardon you.
He will ruthlessly say: I do Not care! Give me what I need otherwise I will die! I can NOT pardon you because you owe me correct husbandry and I require it.
No excuse.
No pardon.
Third
Your chamelon will
Try to talk to you.
And yiu can understand it if you listen.
Not many people
Have the capabilities to do so.
Now, I will show you that you have a talent.
You can listen well!!!.
You do not however understand what is he telling you Yet...
Now look.
He can not talk-in words
So, He speaks to you using behavior.
Is it normal for a chameleon to drop to the ground after some event and to walk on the wet slippery surface?
NO, it is NOT!!!
So, what has caused the atypical behavior of the Chamaeleon? What was the reason for this?
Obviously it was the thing you did before!
What was it? What did you do that forced the Chamaeleon to go down to the ground?
Obviously it was the misting!!!
So, if the chameleon does something unnatural how can you rate the reason that you gave him to do so?
Obviously also something unnatural right?
I will translate you know what the Chamaeleon is telling you:
What rhe hell are you doing?!
I do not like it!!!
I am afraid I will die!!!
Why the hell are you repeating it for several days already?
I’m crying I’m shouting out please stop that’s this insane wrong thing that makes me angry!!!
Vhy do you think I tell you while dropping to the ground and make someting you have never seen from me?
Just for fun?!
NOOOOO!
Wake up finally and give me peace and stop doing this insane thing that I am so afraid off that I’m scared that I will die!!!
So, this is what he wants to tell you!
Why?
Because misting the cage is unnatural!!! No one is misting his environment in the wild with pressurized water.
He either drinks fog in the night time or he might be exposed to rain
but rain is not misting! it is completely different!
it happens while the clouds make the climate cold and dark and prevent the Chamaeleon from the danger of hot and humid environment to make him deadly ill through RI!
I hope you understand now.
From now you please listen to your chamelekn and try tomfind out what he is telling you regerdless he xan not hear anything and xan not speak
He can speak
It is just up to you to listen and understand
