Wont Open Eyes help!!

[Benj]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Vealed, Male?, i would say 2 to 3 months old . How long has it been in your care? 3 weeks
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? 2 to 3 times a day for maybe 2 to 3 minutes each time
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? Crickets, its all he wants What amount? 4 to 5. 1 to 2 week old. What is the schedule? morning afternoon evening How are you gut-loading your feeders?Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet, Nature Zone Cricket Water Bites, Fluker's High Calcium Cricket Feed,JurassiDiet Foods Gut-Load for Crickets & Other Prey
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?Tetrafauna Reptolife plus & zoo meds repivite vitamins mon, wend, fir
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? Dripper. How often and how long to you mist? [U]once and hour for 16 seconds.[/U] Do you see your chameleon drinking? yes
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? White and brown not tested
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you. Bought from petsmart

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? [U]glass with screen top, has a vent under the doors, a minor crack in between doors[/U]
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? Exo Terra lighting 2 50 watt heat bulbs keeping the temp at 32 Celsius What is your daily lighting schedule? on at 730 am off at 8 pm
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? cage floor is 26 basking spot is 32 Celsius. Lowest overnight temp? 25 celsius How do you measure these temps? 2 thermometers
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? 75 to 90% How are you creating and maintaining these levels? [U]Exo Terra monsoon 400.[/U] What do you use to measure humidity? a hydrometer
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? None Plastic
Placement - Where is your cage located? Living room. Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? No. At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? 4 feet
Location - Where are you geographically located? BC Canada

Current Problem - wont open eyes while being handled, or to hunt or while he moves around..

 

[Benj]

bump anyone??

 

[nimmitz]

Am I misreading? Do you have a UVB/UVA bulb in your enclosure?

 

[carol5208]

where is your uvb bulb? Two heat bulbs in a little terrarium is too much and your humidity is too high if it constantly at those levels. What are your temps in farenheit. You may not even need a heat bulb depending on what your temps are without it. You cage temp should be in the low 70's and basking in the low 80 degree range at most. Also 16 seconds is not very long for your chameleon to drink.

 

[carol5208]

so 32c is almost 90 F. Way too hot in that little glass enclosure. You are frying the little guy.

 

[gavriel]

Supplements

This probably isn't directly related to your initial problem. Sounds like you have way to much heat on him and he is drying out. But you are using two vitamin and mineral suppliments. One has D3, but you have no calcium suppliment and it may be to much vitamins for his system.

I dust with Rep-Cal Herptivite multivitamin every 1st and 3rd weekend. Every 2nd and 4th weekend I use Repashy with D3, then I dust with calcium every day half my feeders. (Mojo goes through 12 to 14, 3/4 inch feeders a day).

Without calcium, your chameleon can be at risk of MBD later in life, and since he is so young, he needs to be building his bones properly.

I would also suggest you invest in some good quality UVB and UVA bulbs. They help make up for natural sunlight chameleons do not get in captivity and offer great benefits to processing D3 and vitamins as well as supplying heat and light, (UVA mostly).

 

[Benj]

This probably isn't directly related to your initial problem. Sounds like you have way to much heat on him and he is drying out. But you are using two vitamin and mineral supplements. One has D3, but you have no calcium supplement and it may be to much vitamins for his system.

The stuff that the Cricket food that i posted i hoped would give him that calcium. the Fluker's High Calcium Cricket Feed what they eat he eats. Here is a link >http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753945&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No

I dust with Rep-Cal Herptivite multivitamin every 1st and 3rd weekend. Every 2nd and 4th weekend I use Repashy with D3, then I dust with calcium every day half my feeders. (Mojo goes through 12 to 14, 3/4 inch feeders a day).

How old is Mojo?

Without calcium, your chameleon can be at risk of MBD later in life, and since he is so young, he needs to be building his bones properly.

Gonna go get Calcium. This stuff http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753952&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No should work right??

I would also suggest you invest in some good quality UVB and UVA bulbs. They help make up for natural sunlight chameleons do not get in captivity and offer great benefits to processing D3 and vitamins as well as supplying heat and light, (UVA mostly).

The Uv light i have is a spiral bulb made by exo terra its a 13W 5.0 uvb. it sits a ^ inches above the cage and reflects downward. I have also unplugged a heat lamp. temps are now @ 60.8F at the floor and 71.6F about 3 inches down from the heat lamp. with 70 % humidity. As for his water that he can get is from a dripper to simulate natural rain fall goes all the time so he can drink when ever he wants, I have watched him. The mister that i am using is the monsoon 400, first one i bought was faulty and put a half an inch of water in the bottom. I have the new one set to once an hour for 16 seconds of misting. forgot to add the size of terrarium. its 60 x 45 x 60 cm / 24” x 18” x 24” (WxDxH) now when he gets older i was gonna take the screen mesh off the top and add to it.



I do have a few questions:
1. How warm should his tank be during the day?
2. What kind of UV bulb should I get him?
3.What humidity percentage should he be at??
4. Is there anything else that I should watch for?

Thank you guys for all the help.

Ok so here is what my crickets are eating.
lettuce ( what ever is left at the end of the day i take out and throw away )
High calcium Cricket feed: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753945&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No
Compete diet: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753954&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No
Nature Zone Cricket Water Bites:http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2754872&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No
JurassiDiet Foods Gut-Load for Crickets & Other Prey: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753919&lmdn=Pet+Type&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

All the stuff from petsmart is junk, take a look at Sandrachameleon's blogs for gutload, shes a genius.

You need calcium WITH NO d3 every feeding (lightly dusting) and calcium WITH d3 twice a month, vit. twice a month. (not the same days, interchange seems to be the common method, as stated above)

So, Repta-Calcium Dietary Supplement from Fluker's® won't work, as its WITH d3.

Another member may tell you about the dosage, but from general statements on the forum its best to have calcium WITH NO d3 for every feeding.

I'd definitely change your gutload though, I hear flukers is garbage.

 

[Benj]

All the stuff from petsmart is junk, take a look at Sandrachameleon's blogs for gutload, shes a genius.

You need calcium WITH NO d3 every feeding (lightly dusting) and calcium WITH d3 twice a month, vit. twice a month. (not the same days, interchange seems to be the common method, as stated above)

So, Repta-Calcium Dietary Supplement from Fluker's® won't work, as its WITH d3.

Another member may tell you about the dosage, but from general statements on the forum its best to have calcium WITH NO d3 for every feeding.

I'd definitely change your gutload though, I hear flukers is garbage.

Ok. so off to the pet store i go. So find straight Calcium with not D3? and find a new gut load. Thanks

 

[camimom]

Ok. so off to the pet store i go. So find straight Calcium with not D3? and find a new gut load. Thanks

you wont 'find; a new gutload at the pet store. you need to go to a grocery store.
you need fruits and veggies for gutloading.
and honestly, you probably wont find the calcium without d3 at the store either.

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

The real good stuff like Dinofuel and Cricketcrack you will probably have to order, good news is that they are forum sponsers.

Raspheys is also good, but only select stores sell them. I had to go to a specialty reptile store in town for my supplements/gutload but I'll probably order them next time. The brand I got isn't the 'best' but for now it'll do the trick.

I'm sure other members can give you the best premade gutloads and supplements. You want to add fruits and veggies even with a premade gutload. They add moisture (Water) and great nutrients.

Sandrachameleon has turned it into a science, check out her blogs.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/75-feeder-nutrition-gutloading.html

Just to start you off.

 

[Djturna4thakidz]

Handling 2-3 times a day is too much and will cause unneccesary stress. Get your husbandry under control and then start to build up trust with the little guy by hand feeding.

 

[Benj]

ok then where do i find the calcium with out D3? can i use the calcium that we can get a drug store??

 

[pigglett79]

ok then where do i find the calcium with out D3? can i use the calcium that we can get a drug store??

You will probably have to order it online. I get the Repashy supercal NoD