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After I told you that my veiled had lost colours after being moved to a larger set up some members told me it was stress,to cut a long story short I figured that should have been the problem,and I did what I waS told,covering the frond side so the cham wouldn'd feel so exposed.It worked at some point but not completely.Now here is the point of the whole thread,I was told that it would take some time before he gained his colours/confidence back.Does anyone know something more for a situation like this?If so please help me out..
Thanks a lot

Hi,

does he ever get his colour back even if for only a few times or, he is always without colour? Also, I not sure I remember well what you wrote in your previous posts; is he all dark or light colour when you say he is without colour? (Sorry if I ask information you have already sent).

I see my male, Skipper, sometimes wearing a wondelfull marbled jade green (he's a calyptratus) at night, other times he is completely pea green with no marbling and as soon as he sees me (I used to spray his cage and he never really liked it..!) he turns dark, I mean dark that you cannot say he is green anymore, right away..I know it's my presence (thank Skipper...) and he is doing well otherwise, he is just more shy than other conspecifics.

If he is eating, drinking and passing...also in his new set up, probably your cham really doesn't like anybody's presence...since they are so "asocial" that could just be it.
Does he has a lot of foliage where to hide in? Is when he feels secure and safe in the foliage that my male cham. doesn't display any aggressive or stressed colour most of the time.

Hope this help a little, I know you have been concerned about this for a while now.

Chiara
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1.1 Skipper & Sunshine - Veiled Chameleons
1.1 Jimmy & Hydra - Water Dragons
1.0 Trionix - Smooth soft shell turtle
1.0 Apalone - Spiny texas soft shell turtle
0.1 Irish Brook M - Standardbred mare (retired racehorse)
1.0 Sir Edward - Ragdoll cat, sire
0.3 Shannan, Jalisse, Slick - cats
?.? Some fish

Hi, I'm not sure that I'm really following you. He dropped his colors previously and was beginning to get them back or had them back for some time? It does take time - usually several months. Is he in a high traffic path or are there other animals that he can see? Something is still stressing him out.

My little male who hatched out last February is JUST now starting to show normal colors during the day. Even still, he won't do it when I'm there - just like his father. It took him over 2 years to STAY nice, and even then, only after I mounted his cage up high.

Thanks,I feel a lot better now,perhaps time is the key he has allready made progress..