thanks for the ideas. I have no problem getting her to take water from her dropper bottle (and dripper) I have just been hesitant about the amount - too much/too little - of the repcal.



it seems that her body is just not able to use it properly. I did get a bunch of repta-aid into her finally so she got her nutrition for the day and she crashed really early.



I try to get her into the sun as much as possible in the summer. I would never leave her out all night, though. I live in a rural area and have lots of wildlife: coyote, fox, bear, fishers, owls. I would never sleep unless she was in a fort knox cage - lol! If a great horned owl can tear a skunk in half (yup, witnessed the results one day) it could easily tear screen apart! Also, it cools off a lot at night b/c we are on a river. I may put her outdoor cage in a different area of the property though so she can can get more sun, longer. Lots of trees so she is blocked from sun by about 2pm.



I decided to do the homemade pedialyte (same idea as ones you mentioned) and will fill her entire dripper with it tomorrow. Ho-hum...she is not an easy child ;-/





>>not sure how much it will help but with my chams first clutch i used an eyedropper and filled it with water and reptical mix. i didn't worry too much about quantity just used less than what i put on my crickets as this go straight in the cham.....i know this sounds really tramatizing but if you put your finger over the chams nostrils they will gape to get you off and to breath and you can then pu the eyedropper in the moth realease the nostril wait a bit so they catch their breath and then slowly release the liquid in the dropper. i found the nicer way is to squirt it in with food they are chewing but if they aren't eating it wont happine. It sounds cruel but she wouldn't eat or drink at least in my sight during that week or so.

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>>also ad some electrolize or electrod(3)ize to the water the first boosts electrolites make the cham digest things better and feel better the secon adds calcium and d3. both seem to work at least a little.

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>>I also let my cham stay in the sun all day long during the summer once the night time temp is above 60 and daytime is above 70. when its at those minimums i put her in full sun so she uses the trees inside for shade when it getts too hot ofcourse move the chams into the shade. I have heard that a few months in the sun can help the chams through the winter if they have a good artifical uvb lamp(i use 8.0 lamps)
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