Recent content by Carlton

Wow, that was a lucky break! Lesson learned: never, never, NEVER take your eyes off a cham placed on an outdoor plant! NEVER! Their whole approach to life is to be sneaky and disappear. They can move faster than we expect when they want to and be gone in a flash. Chances are, your chams had...

I gave some excess adult Dubias to a pet shop for store credit. It took a while for local area lizard keepers to get past the "But it's a ROACH!" cringe factor, but once they did, the store had no problem selling them. Most went to friends who kept backyard chickens or ducks. To help prevent...

Even if I were to set up my own feeder colonies that still doesn't take care of the vet support problem. I can't breed one of THOSE when I need one! :p Even if the vet could consult with a cham-savvy vet in the south 48 they may not have the meds or technical expertise necessary. Trying to keep...

I've only kept one cham since moving to AK (one CBB K. fischeri) but no longer have any. Getting a decent variety of live feeders is next to impossible and vet support is next to nothing. Lost the fischeri to an infection I would have had to fly him to Seattle to treat. No way I'm going to take...

Agree. A fan sitting on the cage top blowing across the cage will create a chimney effect that will circulate the cage air. The fan's flow will pull warmer air out of the upper portions of the cage. Cooler air from the lower areas of the cage will rise to replace it. That's what you want. I'm...

IMHO as a 2 year old, he was quite lean before you started feeding the flies. Look at the before photos showing his casque. It was concave, not full. Something was probably going on already. Be careful. Hoping to pin the "blame" on a new feeder is easy, but it's also simplistic...low hanging...

Agree. IMHO, a prolapse due to lack of UV seems a stretch.

Without a necropsy the cause of death (and by extension who if anyone might have contributed to it) will remain a mystery. Sorry you lost him OP.

A 10.0? Danger Will Robinson! What brand of "10.0" do you mean? I'd be reviewing the Lighting article here carefully before choosing one. Daily exposure to the recommended Arcadia or ReptiSun should provide plenty of UV. The wrong UV bulb can burn!

This doesn't just happen to chams. I'd be searching for any vet who sees herps. In the mean time, push hydration and keep things moist! It might be enough it retracts by itself.

Not to mention focus! If I was a bug seeing that heading in my direction, I wouldn't be sticking around long!

You could aim the nozzle of a sterile saline bottle at the eye (preservative-free contact lens rinse solution) and squirt/drip the solution at the eye opening. Saline will sting less than plain water so he may not squeeze the eyelid shut to avoid it as quickly. Might get a bit more solution...

Just a couple of thoughts: IMLE, dehydration tends to make the tongue less sticky, not more. The glands on the tip of the tongue may produce less mucous if the cham is dehydrated. OTOH, if he has a history of MBD it's possible the muscle tone/structure of his tongue has been compromised, which...

Can't be certain either, but IME with thermal burns, the part of the cham that's closest to the radiation source tends to be the first to show damage. That would be the crest of his casque and their dorsal spines. They look fine. I agree something seems to be going on with that discolored skin...

Seem to recall either an African or Malagasy folk legend falling chameleons. Gravid females would let themselves fall out of tall trees, burst open when they hit the ground, releasing their babies. It seemed to be associated with the belief that because chameleons couldn't be killed, they made...