wierd acting cham

[Court11512]

Here a couple weeks ago i acquired a new veiled male. He is about 4 inches long, his eating and drinking habits are seemingly normal and he is going to the bathroom regularly and normal too. He lives in a screen cage that is alittle small for him but im currently working on getting a larger one. He has both uva and uvb light sorces and gets hand misted every couple hours or so during the day.
But he has been acting rather strange. Its almost like he doesn't know how to use his feet and has no muscle tone or something and cant pull himself upto a branch or lift himself up. I also find him hanging upside down alot. And this morning i found him just sitting at the bottom of his cage. I took him out to make sure he was okay and once he was out he seemed fine.

What is going on? None of the other chameleons I've own have ever done this

 

[NHenn]

It sounds like you have past knowledge and know how to care for your little guy but just to be safe and make sure something isn't missing could you please fill out the https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/.

Also could you please post some pictures of the little guy as well. They might help with determining why he is acting like this.

 

[Court11512]

Chameleon Info:
Sprite - veiled chameleon, male (I think), age is unknown but about 4 inches long, had him about 3weeks now
Handling - held him maybe 3 times since I've had him
Feeding - he eats medium size crickets, eats about 5-6 at a time they are gut loaded with a greens trio i buy organic bagged at WalMart
Supplements - zoomed multivitamin dusted on crickets
Watering - hand misted every couple of hours. I see him drink often
Fecal Description - normal
History - before i got him was house with about 5 other chams roughly the same size

Cage Info:
Cage Type - screen cage filled with vines. 17x8x8
Lighting - uva/heat light & uvb both zilla lights. Get almost exactly 12hours of light and dark a day.
Temperature -stays around85 in basking spot
Humidity - gets misted every couple hours religiously
Plants - no
Placement - placed on a shelf that sits above my bed in my dorm room
Location - PA

 

[Court11512]

This is him a few days ago hanging upside down and the last two are from today

 

[EmmaChams]

why is only have his feeders dusters with multivitamins? you didn't mention ANY calcium without D3 and any with D3 which isn't good. He can and will develop MBD without D3. Hope it wasn't a pet store that said "If you have UVB you don't need D3" because I have heard that MANY times from some pet stores.

His supplements should be calcium without D3 every feeding, calcium WITH D3 twice a month and multivitamins twice a month.

Also your cham looks female, not male, I see no spurs so be prepared for egg laying and preparing a laying bin.

 

[NHenn]

Court,

Please check out https://www.chameleonforums.com/basic-husbandry-38769/ and read as much as you can as it will all help both you and your cham.

As recommend you need to change your supplementing asap. Also, I use commercially bought gut loads for my feeders, I recommend you do the same to start and then experiment with making homemade gut loads later.

Your cage is way too small as you said before so be sure to get on that asap as well.

The pictures are hard to tell sex but if she ends up being a female I wouldn't worry about laying right now, focus on correcting your husbandry and getting him/her back to acting like a normal chameleon before you start worrying about laying bin and eggs.

 

[zsazsa85]

I'd like to join to the others! I noticed the same issues too!
I hope you are in time! Good luck!

 

[Court11512]

Thank you.
I know the cage is small i did find a nice custom cage someone is selling from their past veiled.
Any suggestions on brand or type of supplement i should be giving

 

[EmmaChams]

Thank you.
I know the cage is small i did find a nice custom cage someone is selling from their past veiled.
Any suggestions on brand or type of supplement i should be giving

I personally use Repashy Calcium Plus, it makes life SO much easier, its a everyday thing and has the right balance of vitamins, D3 and calcium without worrying of under dosing or overdosing

It does have a gecko on the tub but doesn't mean its just for them, safe for chams, many members here including myself have used it for years with success.

http://www.amazon.com/Repashy-Calcium-Vitamin-Supplement-5-3oz/dp/B005BYH8KA