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My girlfriend posted a couple of days ago about our veiled falling off her vines and being unable to get her self up. Well first off that was not exactly correct,
she has been coming off her vines and crawling on the bottom of her tank( 10 gal.). She has never done this before, she crawls to her reflection it seems and claws at the glass. Now my question is could she be thinking her reflection is a mate? that sounds kind of narcissistic to me. She has not had any changes in her diet,water, lighting,etc.She started this a couple of days ago.

You have her in a glass tank??? thats no good need a mesh one for ventilation and all. glass tanks are the worst. She may just be looking for a place to dig when she scratches the bottom to lay unfertile eggs. give her some kind of plastic tub with soil in it for her to dig in. needs to be pretty deep

She needs to be in something far bigger than a 10 gallon tank.
She could be pawing at the sides for any number of reasons.
As the other person said, she may be looking for somewhere to dig, if she is gravid with infertile eggs.

When I first got my chameleon, he was a rescue. He came to me in a (approx) 30 gallon triangular glass tank. He would also go to the bottom of his tank and paw at the glass.
Obviously, being a male, he wasn't searching for a place to dig to lay eggs.
But, what I do think was happening was he was attempting to get out, to the world he could see beyond the glass.
Why was he doing this? Well, perhaps because his environment inside the tank was too small. He had no freedom of movement.
Zoe now lives in a very large enclosure. He can still see out, and notice that there is a world outside of his cage.
But, he NEVER paws at the side of this enclosure. I think this is because he can travel all over his cage. He can hide, he can bask. I don't think he feels as confined as he did in the glass tank.
Zoe's was 30 gallons, and thta was too small. 10 gallons shouldn't be used at all, except maybe temporarily as an isolation tank, or for new born chams.

You're not doing her any favours by keeping her in such a small environment.
This is the cage that Zoe lives in now. It is 6 feet high x 2 feet deep x 2 feet wide:

Believe it or not, we now keep two gerbils in the tank that Zoe spent at least the first two years of his life in.
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Kim