Recent content by carensdo

After reading your reply, I ran home at lunch to check on Cami and see how her tongue was doing. I was fully prepared to manually pull her tongue out of her stomach (Your picture is exactly what I saw when attempting to feed this morning), but after enticing her with a cricket I found that her...

When it rains it pours... Cami's eye is looking better after just 2 doses of steroid eye drops, but not this morning she is unable to shoot her tongue out. She wants to eat, but can't. The only portion that protrudes out is the rear of her tongue, what I assume to be the part that connects it...

Quick update: the vet prescribed a topical steroid eye drop in hopes that it would take down any swelling and allow the fluid behind her eye to drain. She also gave me a 25 gauge needle and informed me that if she continues to pull her eye in and the fluid pocket pops out, that I could GENTLY...

Turns out we have an exotic specialist who is a member of the Association of Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians (ARAV) and also cares for all the animals at the Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque here! I also got an appointment scheduled for this afternoon! Sometimes it pays off...

After thinking that my cham's eyes were doing better, I have simply hit a plateau. The eye drops lubricate her eye enough that she opens it and uses it for a while, but within hours, she is back to keeping it closed, or worst yet, I have found that there is a white/opack film that often covers...

I ended up finding a few threads about using the saline eye solution, as well as some eye drops specifically designed for captive reptiles. There are 2 versions, one specific to turtles and one through Flukers for all types. They seem to be the same formula, so I purchased and with just 2 doses...

Hey all, New to here, but have been reading/using this forum for months, as I got my first chameleon on the 1st of October, 2013. Bit of info to start: Female veiled chameleon, roughly 5-6 months old (Bought from Petco when no more than 2 inches long (Body, not tail length) 24x24x48...