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Today while I drying the water on my chameleon's cage floor I thought of cup feeding him so I went to check the cupboards to see if I had anything to put the crickets in and I found a mini loaf pan which one of those very shiny fiolish pans after I washed it out I put a few crickets in to see if he would eat them so he rushed very fast to the crickets and ate them and turned his really bright neon green with dark black dots and just totally stayed still and stared at a spot on the pan so I took the pan out of the cage and saw nothing on it and my chameleon looked so scared, so I took him out and he was so slow and seemed scared and barely moved as I was holding him I noticed his tail was really stiff and hard then I put him under the basking spot and went to take a shower 25 minutes later I went back to check and he was still that bright color in the same place only turned the other way. Was he scared? or what happened?

he probably saw his reflection in the pan