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My 2 month old Yemen chameleon seems to be very dopey - he is having trouble gripping onto branches and when held, its like he panics and tries to dive off your hand!! He has also been a light green colour for about a week now and his shedding process seems to be taking a long time. I have another female the same age in the same vivarium but she seems very healthy, and changes colour more. I have also noticed recently that when he eats gets his aim wrong and takes several shots when trying to get a cricket! Its like he cant see properly or something.

Thank you.

We can't help you unless you give us a lot more information...what is your setup like? What type (brand) of lighting? Temperatures day and night? Humidity? How do you offer water and how often? What do you feed? Dust (what kinds and how often)? Please be specific...the details are what we need, not a general comment like "lighting is OK".

I sent you a long reply to message you sent me. It should be as much as you would get here. Let me know how things work out.

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1.0 Chameleo Chameleo Calyptratus
1.0 Leopard Gecko-Matilda
1.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Nosy Be)-Hooloovoo and Popsicle

I can suggest that you take your chameleon/s to the vet asap. Also from what I can tell in the photo they are in an aquarium. Get screen cages for them, reptariums or something similiar. From the description you gave me it sounds like more of an light(UV)/nutrition issue. You should be using both a heat lamp and a uvb/uva light. Also you should be dusting your feeder insects. Preferably you should be 'gut loading' them.
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1.0 Chameleo Chameleo Calyptratus
1.0 Leopard Gecko-Matilda
1.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Nosy Be)-Hooloovoo and Popsicle