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My chameleon (the one with the eye troubles) is bowl fed her crickets. I would like to get that out of the way

Now for the question...

Do they remember things?

recently did a 100% clean of her cage and added 2 more ficus trees. This also means that her bowl is in a new place. The past few hours she has been hanging out where her bowl USED to be. Is this her just hanging around In a preferred new spot? Or is she hungry and confused on the location of her meal.

Thanks!

Faust

Despite the fact that if you put a clear feeding dish in a chameleon cage, they will shoot at the plastic; chameleons are pretty smart.

My chameleons definately remember things, particularly my female veiled (6.5 years old). I have two cages, and depending when she is gravid or not, I put her in the large one to lay eggs in instead of her usual smaller one. She seems to remember each cage individually, each plant, and she often digs in the same spot to lay her eggs in, despite various possible locations.

She definately knows who I am, just by my face it seems.

I think some chameleons definately have a good memory. As for intellect goes, not so sure if they have much of that.

-Brock

Hehe... thanks.
I'll move her bowl to a new location.

Cheers,
Faust

I have only had my new fishers a week but he is very intelligent. He sleeps on the same branch of his ficus every night- even if i turn the tree around. He climbs to where his light is before it even turns on. He knows now that when we lay our hand out it means food. In addition to him learning all that in a matter of days he recognizez the difference between my wife and i. He will run from me 10/10 times but will reach for her 10/10 times.

I put her in the large one to lay eggs in instead of her usual smaller one.

I would think you'd do the opposite and have her normally in a larger cage. - or is the big cage REALLY big

Just wondering...
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

I have had her in her 18/18/45 inch cage since she was very small, and she's been there for almost 7 years and you can tell she is comfortable there.

She actually escaped out of the big cage once because I forgot to close the door, and I found her up crawling along the side of her smaller cage.

I have a larger cage that is 2/2/5.5 feet that I keep my male in, that was originally intended for a pair of jacksonii. The guy I was getting those from was kind of a fly by night, and I haven't been able to find anyone around here with jacksonii since (that was 4.5 years ago).

So, it's more of an individual cage vs a communal cage, rather than bigger or smaller.

-Brock

makes sense if she is happy! and she probably cares more about the height than the width
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

I've had a few different species of chameleon that could open the door to their cage. It happened several times with each, so it was no accident.

Faust....I have been outta town for awhile. How is your cham? Obviously recovered? Give me the skinny.

Kris
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2.1 Black Labs Tucker, Raider and Lacey
1.0 Lepoard Gecko Kumar (Another lost pet RIP and party on with Harold!)
3.0 Horses Smoothie, Rocky and Bogey
1.0 Husbands (he puts up with me)
1.2 Kids-Trevor, Logan and Rylie
1.1 Ferrets Tank and Ellie (The fun fuzzies)
1.1 Veiled Chams Squiggy and Pudge (may she RIP)
0.1 Snowflake Cornsnake Lucky

She's still alive... But I have a general bad feeling about her ya know? She's eating... and I'm soaking her... she just sits around for the most of the day. Eyes shut when something isn't bothering her. One eye fully open, the other half.

I dun wanna take her back to the ass of a vet that I did last time... and she's responding to hand feeding. Mostly i've been hand feeding her 5 crickets day (or trying to)

I also added 2 more trees into her cage, she seems to enjoy the foliage. Eh... i'm worried about her :-/