As you probably know from my post below, one of my chams was not well and decided to kill herself on some dirt... can't figure out why. I saved her the first time (she ate some poo) but she was bound and determined to eat dirt and did and now she's gone 
I am wondering if I should put more bark over all of the dirt in the whole set up. I am convinced that she went down and ate the dirt, not that she shot at it and ate some... there was a very large amt in her mouth and she was on the ground with her head in the dirt when i found her.. She didn't look like she fell from a branch.
What could cause this? There was a lot of food offered to them, I free ranged the crix in the brev tank. There were also crix in her separate tank when this happened... I dust the crix every otehr feeding with mineral I and calcium with d3 (I alternate between both). If anyone knows what may have caused this please let me knwo. I hope it is just an isolated case.. the otehr two brevs are thriving,adn the girl who died hadn't grown since igot her and just didn't look to be doing as well... If I know what could have caused it though I will know what to look out for. At least now i know that if it happens again not to isolate it in a tank with dirt in it
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~Lindsay
0.1 panther chameleon (Orion)
1.2 r. brevicaudatus chams (unnamed)
0.1 leopard gecko (Acadia)
1.0 pictus gecko (Raine)
1.1 parakeets (Bongo/Citron)
1.1 cats (Tigger/Bonzai)
1.0 dwarf hampster (Chico the monster)
someday will have 1.1 great danes (will be Osiris and Solaris)
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?s about r brevs and dirt...
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it sounds like something else was going on. Did you ever see her actually shoot? Maybe she couldn't shoot well and just stuck her tongue out and whatever stuck to it she ate - just speculation.
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog - Skipper
0.5 Mad. Hissers
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (no name yet)
?.? Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula (no name yet)
Sorry about of your lost...
I totally agreed with lele as it is unlikely for cham to pack the un-move poo instead of crix.
With my brevs i like to use sheet moss over top of my substrate
for that reason,The only problem with that is keeping the moss alive
I hear sphagnum moss is good to use also
