The Veiled Chameleon: January 2006: Showering Chameleon

Do the chameleons get stressed out or anything like that when they are directly sprayed with warm water? Also what is the best way to hydrate your veiled chameleon?

My cham loves the shower thing....thanx 4 the idea.

i think my cham mayby about tolay her eggs as her body has swollen up a bit but she has become very weak.is this normal??please reply asap!thanx

do chameleons {especially more agressive types such as the vieled}bite hard? Do they bite commonly? should i wear gloves when handling them? I have read most webpages and books about chameleons but have not seen this question asked or answer. someone please respond.

great web page jeff

hey people i might be gettin a cameleon and i need a tips on how to take care of it so email me on davidhanmer3@hotmail.com
thanx bye

Hey U all!Thanx 4 a great website but I desperately need some expert advice on taking care of my cham otherwise he might die!Something is wrong and i dont know what to do-he is sleepy all the time and doesnt want to eat or drink water-do they become a bit inactive like in a type of hibernate state in the winter or what? plz help i cant bear to see him like this...

Ok i have a 1/1.2 old chameleon i got him about amonth ago.. since i have had him he has shedded about 2 or 3 times.. he hates showering..and i dont kno what to do..kan some one help me!! PLEASE!!

my cham only eats a few crickets a day is this ok? He will eat 3 or more supreworms and lettuce. should i try more crickets?

I am getting a veiled chameleon in 6 days and can use some knowledge. So if you might have some knowledge for me to obtain to help my veiled chameleon live a better life please email me.

My cameleon won't go poo and looks like he is burping. Is there a blockage or something?? What should I do??? Please email me back asap.

thanks
Liz

hi

I am getting a Chameleon in the next couple of weeks and would appreciate some knowledge on how to look after and keep it in the best environment possible.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks Paul jnr

my male panther chamleon left eye is a little weak and i dont know why..he eats alot and i have a auto mistter in an 6 foot cage..please help

help is mt cham able to eat fruit or greens like lettuce when he is just a baby?

We have a juvenile chameleon, about 2 months, who can't open his one eye? I think he got sap in his eye from the ficus plant. Do you have any ideas? Thanks

I am thinking about getting a veiled cham. do they..
bite
stink
get out of their cage
are they able to be picked up?
I would really be thankful for the answer to these questions and other vital facts. let me know
kevin_vinci@yahoo.com
thanks

I wanted to know what it means when your veil chameleon hisses at you. Does that mean it's going to bite me? I am very afraid to touch him now. Please someone can you answer my questions.

Lacee: it just means he wamts u to back off..

I desperately need some expert advice on taking care of my cham otherwise he might die!Something is wrong and i dont know what to do-he is sleepy all the time and doesnt want to eat or drink water-do they become a bit inactive like in a type of hibernate state or what? plz help i cant bear to see him like this...

Hey i am having the same problem as "Marbel Lewis"

I've had my chameleon for about 4 months now, and she was doing really well. However, I just switched her to a larger tank and now she is very lathargic. All she does is sleep and rarely eats/drinks. She even falls asleep while I hold her. I've been researching like crazy but have yet to find any answers. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thankyou

Hey Jeff
I just got a 4 month old female. I keep her in my room and I blocked the ac to prevent the room from being cold. I also have a heat lamp and UV lamp, I notice she is not as active as when I first got her, what else can I do? My cage is not a glass tank.
Thanks Andrea

hey I am going to get a juvenile chameleon soon, or mabey not soon well i dont know but anyway I was wondering if anyone had any tips... PLZ HELP!!! i will really apreactiate it so ye ive been on the computer searching like a freak and yeah (it gave me barely anything) ppplllllzzzzz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how do I get my veiled chameleon to change color? How can I tell how old she is?
What is a good temp for her to be happy?

i got my chameleon about a week or 2 ago shes doing great her name is ophelia. recently though i have noticed shes more of a darker color then the neon green she was when i got her, she is active when u hold her but most of the time shes up right under the light and she like lays down like bathing the sun.... honestly she looks depressed to me. is this normal? i also need help to find out a good schdule for her if you can give me some tips it would be most appreciated. thx

wouldnt the chameleon get stressed when you move it from its cage to the tree?

i am thinking of getting a veiled chameleon, i what kind of lighting should i use, cage size, humidity, food? also, can i handle it a lot, do they enjoy unlight? real plants, oopen dirt? thanks.

Do Veiled Chamleons bite? how hard and what should i do to keep him non agressive? We have a moving fountain in his cage, he drinks from it fine. he looks good and eats everyday. He eats crikets, mealworn and the bettles and waxworms. he loves to eat the hibiscus tree and flowers. we don't mist. He has shedded several times since buying him 6 months or so. Hes very active. He is about 6 inches without tail. I'm not sure how old he is. Is there some way to tell how old they are? Do we need to do anything else? What else can they eat?

Hi, I've got a chameleon called Kiki, but lately she hasn't been looking to good. A week or so ago I was giving her a drink and she started like shuddering-is that normal, cus it really scared me! Plus she doesn't like her cage so she window wipes, so we let her out onto this massive tree we bought her, but she doesn't always stay on it. Sometimes she goes walkies and either climbs on the ironing board, Goes behind the TV or climbs ontop of her cage! Is it normal? Also she seems to have lost a nail-and I'm not sure if that should happen, but one day we got her out of her cage and one of her nails were missing. It really scared me and I hate seeing her like this. It would break my heart to see her keel over. Please respond as soon as poss! Thanks, Rhiannon

P.S. If any of you have any other information my email is fantabuloush_moomin@hotmail.co.uk Thanks!

Hello all! I am thinking of getting a pair of veiled chameleons. My question is: I have a huge tank for them which is screened on one side and most of the top, Is this going to work? Also, can these two be housed together? The pet shop I am buying them from has them in the same cage and was wondering if that was ok or not. I'm not sure how old they are but the male is about 5 inches with out tail and the female a little smaller. I have experience with reptiles and pretty much know what I am doing as far as lighting and such. I see alot of people on here with sick animals. Are these guys really that hard to take care of? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Jodee

Hi, I have been researching a couple of things. I see a lot of questions here, but no answers. I hope someone can help me.

I got a veiled chameleon about 2 weeks ago after previously raising a Savannah Monitor for 11 years, a Uromastyx for 9, and other lizards. I figured it was time to give a chameleon a try, I know they are a little ore difficult to raise but I've always wanted one and I figured I was ready. I believe mine is a female, and it's about 6 to 8 months old. It came to me a little bit skinny, but after 2 weeks of tons of crickets, she seems to have fattened up and grew about a 1/2 inch to an inch in the 2 weeks I've had her.

However, just yesterday she got very sluggish, didn't want to move much, and won't open one of her eyes. The eye won't move, even if I gently touch it.

Up until yesterday if I came near her cage she went and hid, and if I picked her up she liked to move around a lot. Yesterday I picked her up and she didn't move a bit and did not want to get off of my hand, and this is very different behavior than what I previously saw. And again, the eye....

What's going on and what do I do? I've been extensively misting her tank at least twice a day and she drinks everytime I do, and as I said she has a large amount of crickets to eat. The eye thing is bugging me, and I don't understand how she could haver gotten so sluggish out of nowhere.

Any advice?

We purchased a Yemen Chameleon, a little fellow named George. We was told by the store to feed him crickets. He doesn't seem to eat them, in fact he looks scared of them. I purchased mealworms and waxworms, but was then told only to give him one (waxworm)a week. I offered him one off my hand and he yomped it down. Is there a limit to how many worms to give them. Without the tail he about 4" long. Cheers.
Great site by the way

I'm getting a veiled this week
but I remind noticing it's legs trembled while it was walking...
was there any problem with it?
help please

We had a veiled chameleon for approx five years. On friday he turned a sickly yellow and I said that if he wasn't better in the am we'd go to the vet. Izzy didn't make it. Old age? or something else? I recived another, R.C. for my birthday today and he is totally different than Izzy. I am so excited and happy to have been entrusted with this amazing creature. All I can tell is that gut loading the crickets and dusting them with a calicum and vitiman will help keep the chameleon healthy. Any other suggestions?

Just wondering what types of plants are good formy new baby lol!!!!!

honey is a wonderful 2 month old baby veiled chameleon, and i was just wondering, around what age do they start tp change colors at? and if we wanted to feed her fresh greens, how do we go about doing that? do we cook them first them cool them in the fridge and then cut them up and hand feed it to her....and we seen that she needs alot of vitimin c and calcium...how can we give her that?.....

thanx

why do chamleons vibrate, as when holding my 6 month old female she some times vibrates

i have had my veiled chameleon for a few weeks. He seems to be doing well even though he is getting shyer and sometimes now he opens his mouth like he is going to bite me. Do they bite. Also i make it rain in his cage a few times a day and he seems hydrated even though he has some yellow in his poops, is this cause for concern? any help would be greatly appreciated

gaio: the shaky walk thing is apparently to simulate leaves blowing in the wind, as their bodies are leaf shaped its like a camoflauge thing... not sure if this is true but it funny watching them do it!!

I have recently bought a veiled chameleon. To start off he appetite was fine. However, the crickets are starting to get bigger and he is getting more scared of them that anything, he end up just hissing at them and running away. I'm worried that he doesnt eat propperly. Should i try a different diet with him?
Somebody please reply!
Thank you

leo: I took it to the vet and founf out it was actually raquitism =|
poor tyrone..

I have a veild chameleon and the last couple of weeks she's been acting "funny". She hasen't been eating at all, very inactive and hanging out at the bottom of the cage away from her heat.... There has been food offered to her in her dish as well as hand fed, the humidity has been normal as well as the heat. However I have recently moved her from downstairs to upstairs and she is now in visual range of my beardie. Also it has been very cold where I live. So is this a hibernation state? If so what should I do?? Or is it the move? Or something else?? Thanks so much for your time. I'm really stressed about somebody PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Hi!
I just got my veiled chameleon on Valentines day and I have a question. I think it's a male and he looks to be a young adult. I was just holding him and he started to vibrate! I could feel it on my hand when I was holding him and it felt like a purr or growl. He would also shake his head a little like he was shivering and had his eyes closed like he was sleeping. Was he having a bad dream or is he sick? Please reply soon because I'm freaking out!!

To Jamie;

Ummm...sounds like your cham is either pregnant and trying to find somewhere to lay her eggs (in which case you should offer her a tray 6" deep with moist sand NOW) or she's trying to find a warm spot to sleep at night. They say veileds in the wild will sleep in little crevices in the ground during the cold months - that might be the case.

For me, I have an 8 month old male veiled called Neo who seems, for lack of a better term, to have a cold. It started with this gross mucous-ish fluid draining from his nose. That stopped after a few days and now he seems dehydrated (I've been misting heavily 4-5 times a day and he drinks like crazy) and takes naps during the day, which I know is a bad sign. Also, he hasn't eaten in a few days. ANyone have any idea what it could be?! It would be a great help...

Hi
I could really use some advise I have an 8 month old call Pitrie....like other owners my chameleon is very lethargic and is not eating or drinking....we have had to move him from one room to the other not long ago....is he stressed and dehydrated?? and if so whats the best thing to do......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give some advise thanks millions

i bought my cammi 3 weeks ago and i just noticed that he keeeps his right eye closed most of the time while the left eye moves normally. he also stayes on top of the cage and doesn't really move around..is this normal? i'm really worried about him. this morning i wsa watching him and he tried to eat one of his crickets and i don't know his tounge wouldn't come out and i felt soo bad because it looked like he really wanted that cricket. i took him out of his cage and i tried to hand feed him a cricket and then a super worm but he just closed both eyes. please help, i don;t want my cammi to die. thanks

Hi
sadly my 4 yr old chameleon died yesterday and my dad said he will get me another one soon but i really wanna no what is the life span of a veiled chameleon because i really didnt like it wen Dipsey died in my hands :( please tell me if a 4 yr old chameleon is round about the age or life span!!

please help me thanks!!