my 5 month or so old female veiled has these bumps on her side. She has had them since I got her roughly a month ago, and was wondering if they were something I should be alarmed about?
You can see them on the picture below kind of in the middle of her body near her ribcage, there are like 3 or 4 of them.

hmm whatever it is, mine also has the same thing

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nematodes?
Someone else will have to chime in here....my guess is parasites.

-Brad

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nematodes will be visible all the time, right?
i believe this only visible when he's stretching or bending his rib cage.
i don't know exactly about your case.. but in mine definitely not parasites.
he has a fecal check already and it came out negative.

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I'm not sure subcutaneous nematodes would always show up on a fecal float.
Certainly intestinal parasites that have migrated would, but not necessarily those that originated under the skin from insect bites for example.
It would be rather uncommon for a captive bred animal to have this type of parasite although stranger things have happened.

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My guess would be nematodes that migrated to the skin too. You can't always see them. The cham can be sitting in such a way that they seem invisible. They also move around a little. When you feel those spots are they hard like a tiny grain of rice or are they soft? I also saw one cham that had tiny hard bumps here and there on the ribs. They were deposits from over supplimentation.

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If it does not look like a piece of string under the skin...but is just bumps and they are on/over the ribs, then they could be calcification or gout.

My cham has those too and it feels like part of the rib cage to me. It is not parasites but my guy is almost 6 months and I think its just something that happens while they grow maybe. I might be wrong but that is my guess.

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