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Every single one of my 1:2 trio of adult veileds sheds at completely random times, and not all at once. At the moment, one of the females has shed her face and neck about 1/4 down her body but the rest is stuck tight. The male shed only his face about 2 weeks ago, and the other female just shed her face last week.

I keep the humidity at 50-60% but the random weather here on the eastern seaboard of Canada makes for very irregular high humidity days, so there are 70-80% single days eery now and then.

AT LEAST once a day (the second misting is the remaining room temp water from the bottle, just misting leaves for drinks) all of the chams get a few minutes of direct misting, with hot water of course. They don't seem to be ready to shed whatever is still there, no scratching or rubbing at all.

Any ideas as to what's wrong? They ARE veileds and the moderate humidity shouldn't be causing any health problems.

Veiled chameleons don't shed their skin like snakes do. None of my veileds shed their entire body at the same time. The only ones that do are the babies, then they look like cottonballs.
Cricket

Even beginners know that! Most chameleons shed their skin in 2-3 days but mine take weeks. That was my question...thanks for your input though.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult your intelligence. But my adults take a long time to complete a shed too.
Cricket

Sorry i didnt mean it that way, but yah i guess its semi-normal for them to take forever to shed...i'm not super-worried.

Luna can take days, if not weeks, to finish a shed. Her last one was about 2 weeks and the very tip of her funny, short tail had a piece hanging on for another two weeks! I just keep the humidity up. Living in NH I can certainly relate to the Northeast dilemma!

lele
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (both MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog (for summer)
0.5 Mad. Hissers (for summer - all girls, no little ones, whew!)

one of my veileds always starts shedding at the first second when he wakes up and finishes in the same day. but my others take a couple of days.
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1.2 veiled chameleons(Rocket, Jenevive, and Sally)
1.0 pacific tree frog(Kermit)
want to get a diego suarez( which I would name Tommy)