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    Help! Can’t Keep humidity up with heater on

    Same here. I am running 4 cool mist humidifiers and a large whole house evaporative humidifier around the clock pretty much and it’s all I can to to maintain 50-55% humidity. I refill them daily. Gas furnaces are very drying. The whole house evaporative humidifier made a big difference. I...
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    Parasite - Cryptosporidium Saurophilum

    The vet didn't comment positive or negative when I mentioned Worm Guard. I do not believe it has any worm prevention or treatment effect as the name would suggest, but my chameleons have had a positive feeding response to it so I dust occasionally. I believe they like the smell or taste.
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    Parasite - Cryptosporidium Saurophilum

    So I went to the vet and was told that this is some kind of protozoal parasite and not crypto. Make sense because Crypto should be smaller than the Coccidia sized parasites observed. Chameleon is now on Ponazuril.
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    Parasite - Cryptosporidium Saurophilum

    Varanii, interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. I probably got a little ambitious selecting a specific cryptosporidium. Yeah, I didn’t expect worm guard to be a fix for the problem but I have had positive results lately using it. Specifically, some of my chams that usually are hesitant to...
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    Parasite - Cryptosporidium Saurophilum

    I am fairly certain I have identified these parasites as Cryptosporidium Saurophilum found in the stool of one of my panther chameleon females. I decided to post because I had a difficult time finding examples on the internet and within this forum. The image below is at 100x with fecal smear...
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