My adult vield that is aproximatly 1 1/2 yrs old has stopped eating. He was fine until a couple of days ago when he decided not to eat. He is currently housed in a 165 gal reptarium with an exo terra heat bulb and a uvb also. At night i switch the bulbs from 100 watt in the day and 75 at night with the red infared bulb. I have a habba mist system and he is drinking fine. There are 2 ficus plants in the cage. I was feeding him on silkworms,crickets, and mealworms. The crickets get gutloaded as much as they need everytime I get a new shipment in. I am currently using zoo meds reptivite for calcium and D3. Sometimes he gets mustard greens.
Just a couple days ago i was holding him and i forgot that my closet has a huge mirror. He seen an image of himself and was the most stressed out i have ever seen...Awsome colors. I hold him very rarely! Could this be his eating problem? Any help is appreciated
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Vield stopped eating
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Chams, and especially veileds, need a good temperature drop at night. Get rid of the night lights/heat sources. They can tolerate night time temps in the low 60s with no problem at all. I have friends who leave them outside into the 40s in the fall. That's a bit extreme vut the low 60s is perfectly fine. I assume your house doesn't get colder than that.
As long as he's drinking OK, I wouldn't worry about it. Try some different prey items. And make sure you're nopt over-doing the supplements.
Ed
It seems as if he likes the night bulb. When i wake up in the early morning and it is still dark its about one hour away from daylight and he moves up closer to the heat as if he is cold.
All I can tell you is that chams need a significant temp drop at night. This is standard practice from virtually ALL of of the experts. Just because your cham seems to move toward the het doesn't mean it's good for him. In the wild, they don't have a nocturnal heat source. I'm usually a big fan of allowing chams to select their own temps in a properly set up cage but this is different. No successsful breeder that I know uses a nocturnal heat source with veileds unless the temps drop below 50F.
As I said earler, the temps may not be related to the anorexia. Boredom with a food item (or items) is the usual cause. But the nocturnal heat source is the one feature of your husbandry that is aberrant.
Ed
