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The last few days I find Luna down in her branches when I come in in the morning. She still comes up to drink and bask but she has not been eating too much the past few days. I am not terribly worried but today she was shooting at the soil. I never put my protective plastic canvas on her big scheff b/c it is so dense and she never went near the soil (thought I just took it out to cover it now). So now I am wonderting two things:

1- could she be developing another clutch already (yikes - not again!) I know Ohana, her sister, laid within a couple weeks after her first infertile clutch (Sonia/anson has her).

2 - What might she be looking for in the way of minerals or other nutritional needs? I am dusting only once a week with cal/D3 and vitamins. Her crix are gutloaded and she eats butterworms and supers, too.

thanks,
lele
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta

Sometimes chams just shoot at things out of curiosity. If there are shiny flecks of mica in the soil they could look like drops of water. I don't think they are doing it to get some micronutrient. I had a male veiled who would roam my carpets shooting at flecks of sand.

yeah, it's just that she hasn't does this since I first got her and in combo with her wandering, not eating and hanging out in the lower branches a lot I thought maybe I am missing something. I covered the soil just in case she shoots at something difficult to swallow.

thanks
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta