Fool
New Member
Yea im using a digital ive been watching 24/7 and shes good I use a digital probe one with hydrometer just to give you a idea of how cold it gets lol
WHats wrong with my baby?!?!
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Yea im using a digital ive been watching 24/7 and shes good I use a digital probe one with hydrometer just to give you a idea of how cold it gets lol
carol5208
Chameleon Enthusiast
I don't know any thing about the heaters as I have never had to use one. I know you should not have a light on in there all night. I just saw a thread on here about a week ago and they said to use a ceramic heat emitter to heat the area or even try draping a heating pad over one side, or covering it partially with a blanket or something. Leave room for air though! Can I ask a question? Why did you get a chameleon so young? They are much more fragile than juveniles.
Fool
New Member
Yea carol I know I was supposed to get a juvenile but my cousin took it upon herself to surprise me with this one for my birthday (bless her heart) so I thought I could do it which I was doing fine until her eyes got closed. I really don't know what did it it wasn't my husbandry. Might have been my handling I think Instead of cup feeding her so fast I should have let her hunt for it. Either that or it was the light but I don't know might have been both. It was going good too she was doing great but now just one fly in the eye and now this 
Im positive if that fly hadn't gone on her head she would have survived. Their may still be hoipe she opens it I got the heater to keep her temps at 73F. Also it was a suprise to me too I had a big cage enclouse setup for a juvinelle not for a baby -_- this only and always happen to me. Thank you guys for supporting me and all your help I just hope I can take her tuesday.
Edit ok pssh ill keep it at 60
Im positive if that fly hadn't gone on her head she would have survived. Their may still be hoipe she opens it I got the heater to keep her temps at 73F. Also it was a suprise to me too I had a big cage enclouse setup for a juvinelle not for a baby -_- this only and always happen to me. Thank you guys for supporting me and all your help I just hope I can take her tuesday.Edit ok pssh ill keep it at 60
pssh
Avid Member
You cannot day definitively what may or may not have caused this. I doubt it was the fly. It could have been a number of things that you did, or it could have been nothing you did. I wouldn't worry about it all the much. She's a baby (looks to me like one month or less) and not all babies are meant to make it.
Make it a lesson. Do more research and be positive your husbandry is correct. Talk to breeders to figure it out, don't just wing it.
Make it a lesson. Do more research and be positive your husbandry is correct. Talk to breeders to figure it out, don't just wing it.
Chris Anderson
Dr. House of Chameleons
You need to relax. You are messing with her far too much and you aren't going to help fix the problem if you just stress her out. Messing with her every two seconds is just going to make it worse.
As people have been saying, you do not need to provide supplemental heat at night. A night temperature drop is beneficial and she will be fine even if the temps get into the mid 50s. Night temps in the mid 50s are not going to kill her. Have the lights on 12 hours a day and off 12 hours a day. If your temps do get into the low 50s or lower, get a ceramic heat emitter (ex: http://www.reptmart.com/p-1426-ceramic-heat-emitter-10-20-gal-ul-listed-60w-for-sale.aspx) but your night temps seem fine to me.
Also, why do you want to get a fecal done? She's a CB baby. Trying to have a vet force a collection to test is going to be very hard on such a small chameleon and there is no need for it.
When you mist her, does she try to rub her eyes? The movement of the eyes you are describing sounds like part of the eye cleaning process. Do you keep picking her up every time you see her start to do it? Mist her well and let her rub her eyes.
It sounds like you may have been holding her a lot. Try to leave her alone and let her acclimate as much as possible. Holding her too much is just going to interfere with her trying to clean her eyes out.
Chris
As people have been saying, you do not need to provide supplemental heat at night. A night temperature drop is beneficial and she will be fine even if the temps get into the mid 50s. Night temps in the mid 50s are not going to kill her. Have the lights on 12 hours a day and off 12 hours a day. If your temps do get into the low 50s or lower, get a ceramic heat emitter (ex: http://www.reptmart.com/p-1426-ceramic-heat-emitter-10-20-gal-ul-listed-60w-for-sale.aspx) but your night temps seem fine to me.
Also, why do you want to get a fecal done? She's a CB baby. Trying to have a vet force a collection to test is going to be very hard on such a small chameleon and there is no need for it.
When you mist her, does she try to rub her eyes? The movement of the eyes you are describing sounds like part of the eye cleaning process. Do you keep picking her up every time you see her start to do it? Mist her well and let her rub her eyes.
It sounds like you may have been holding her a lot. Try to leave her alone and let her acclimate as much as possible. Holding her too much is just going to interfere with her trying to clean her eyes out.
Chris
Olimpia
Biologist & Ecologist
Yea, don't blame yourself like that. Like Pssh, I don't think the fly has mortally wounded her, you know? Maybe she does have a fly stuck under her lid, and that's causing discomfort/pain and she's not opening her eyes, but maybe she doesn't and she's just fading. Either way, you can't think "If only I hadn't fed her flies today!" because there's no way to have foreseen that.
Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
I'd use regular water. You want to make sure she is drinking and the saline won't be great for that.
