Hello
I am new here, so I hope, that I have chosen the right section of this forum.
I have a veiled chameleon female, she is maybe 2 yrs old. I have her since she was baby, now she is adult, maybe 25-30 cm with tail.
Lately We have been experiencing troubles. At first, I have noticed an edema on her left eye. Ive had this problem once, when she fell of badly attached branch. That time she cured herself in a few days without special care.
This time edema was around her eye. She was acting like normal, not closing eye or tears around, eating normal. After a week I have decided to cure this, as it seemed to be serious problem. I have studied many forums and books, I have asked for help in one petshop and everything leaded to adding more calcium and beta caroten to her food. I have gut loaded crickets and those bigger insects grass hopers? idk if this is exact name, they are maybe 5-7cm long.
She ate anything as usual and edema did not go away. So I have tried to non humanly fill !dead! insects with carrot juice (just squeezed one part of carrot). She ate them and in a few days, there was no edema, so we were happy.
But there aws another problem.
There was something on her rectum, It was something like dehydrated poop etc, whe was pushing it for a few hours and it did not help. So I have sprayed it with warm water and prboblem was gone till the morning.
Than anything went as usual. 3-4 crickets, or 2-3 grasshoppers per day, covered with minerals, and calcium once a week.
After a few days she stopped eating suddenly. I was not paying attention to that, since it was normal, 2 days without apetite and then again normal behavior.
But it has been 2 weeks and she did not rat anything. I am giving her grass hopers and crickets day by day but she ignores them.
I have tried force feeding, but no success. She just spits them out.
She is drinking a lot. I am taking her out every 2 days and giving her fresh water, she drinks maybe 1dcl(100ml) at once, and that is a lot, since she is that small.
She is allways green, active, moving around terarium, but I dont really know what to do now.
Today I have noticed, that she is like pushing some poop out, but it takes a few hours and it looks like its just there, not trying to get out. It is not prolapse. It stays there few hours and then fall off. But I have noticed drop of blood on one branch too and so I am really worried about her. What should I do?
I wont take it to the vet, because nearest reptile vet is maybe a few hundred kms of my place and those nearby are not skilled with reptiles at all...and theyre taking around 50Eur for one visit...(just looking)
So in conclusion, there were several problems and something caused, that my female 1,5yr veiled chameleon is not eating, by this day it is more than two weeks. She drinks a lot, seems active.
Terarium info:
130cmx80cmx70cm,
UVB with nice spot under, she loves it there, + one normal light
Live plant, ficus (or it is called differently, its been there for year, so it is not problem)
Humidity 45-65% most of the time around 50-55%
Temperature 23-24 (night) & 28-30 (day)
Nothing has changed since I got her, except of substrate regularly, and one plant maybe a year ago. Nothing added, nothing taken, so it is definetly not caused by environment.
I am new here, so I hope, that I have chosen the right section of this forum.
I have a veiled chameleon female, she is maybe 2 yrs old. I have her since she was baby, now she is adult, maybe 25-30 cm with tail.
Lately We have been experiencing troubles. At first, I have noticed an edema on her left eye. Ive had this problem once, when she fell of badly attached branch. That time she cured herself in a few days without special care.
This time edema was around her eye. She was acting like normal, not closing eye or tears around, eating normal. After a week I have decided to cure this, as it seemed to be serious problem. I have studied many forums and books, I have asked for help in one petshop and everything leaded to adding more calcium and beta caroten to her food. I have gut loaded crickets and those bigger insects grass hopers? idk if this is exact name, they are maybe 5-7cm long.
She ate anything as usual and edema did not go away. So I have tried to non humanly fill !dead! insects with carrot juice (just squeezed one part of carrot). She ate them and in a few days, there was no edema, so we were happy.
But there aws another problem.
There was something on her rectum, It was something like dehydrated poop etc, whe was pushing it for a few hours and it did not help. So I have sprayed it with warm water and prboblem was gone till the morning.
Than anything went as usual. 3-4 crickets, or 2-3 grasshoppers per day, covered with minerals, and calcium once a week.
After a few days she stopped eating suddenly. I was not paying attention to that, since it was normal, 2 days without apetite and then again normal behavior.
But it has been 2 weeks and she did not rat anything. I am giving her grass hopers and crickets day by day but she ignores them.
I have tried force feeding, but no success. She just spits them out.
She is drinking a lot. I am taking her out every 2 days and giving her fresh water, she drinks maybe 1dcl(100ml) at once, and that is a lot, since she is that small.
She is allways green, active, moving around terarium, but I dont really know what to do now.
Today I have noticed, that she is like pushing some poop out, but it takes a few hours and it looks like its just there, not trying to get out. It is not prolapse. It stays there few hours and then fall off. But I have noticed drop of blood on one branch too and so I am really worried about her. What should I do?
I wont take it to the vet, because nearest reptile vet is maybe a few hundred kms of my place and those nearby are not skilled with reptiles at all...and theyre taking around 50Eur for one visit...(just looking)
So in conclusion, there were several problems and something caused, that my female 1,5yr veiled chameleon is not eating, by this day it is more than two weeks. She drinks a lot, seems active.
Terarium info:
130cmx80cmx70cm,
UVB with nice spot under, she loves it there, + one normal light
Live plant, ficus (or it is called differently, its been there for year, so it is not problem)
Humidity 45-65% most of the time around 50-55%
Temperature 23-24 (night) & 28-30 (day)
Nothing has changed since I got her, except of substrate regularly, and one plant maybe a year ago. Nothing added, nothing taken, so it is definetly not caused by environment.