Recent content by pennyz

Thank you Katie, I now have a very dark corner in my living room... and some lucky crickets that willbe exploring the outside world soon.... Thanks to everyone that replied! Its been great to have this forum for info and in times of need xxx

they had no appointments and I was struggling to sort any kind of child care... got 2 little boys and it was bed time etc .. just wasnt giong to be possible. He died during the night... probably around midnight..... I very much doubt anything could have been done by the vet anyway ... he went...

Thank you Kate for your help, I may try the steaming... I've just tried syringing a small amount of water slowly.. but he's now just lying on the towel barely breathing... may just leave him for night .. I dont want to freak him out.. he's in such a bad way.. Fingers crossed for tomorrow...

So far I've given him his first done and tried hydrating him.. bit wary as I dont want to drown him as some people have warned about when syringing water....he is sat on his tea towel half under the lamp... more standing than lying which is good but still gaping and he's turned very light...

yes i need to give him 0.05ml once a day for 5 days...

thank you nightanole, just done it..... the annoying thing is I think I may have caused this by putting a lower watt bulb in to stop him burning himself... and now he's got this!

he's not looking like he's able to support himself on the branches well.. should i put him on a tea towel under the heat lamp?

yes it was the vet... the cham has had these before for a possible skin infection which hasn't gone... its spread all over his cask... (its turned white?) He has been prescribed Baytril.....

Hi all Ive come back home from work today and found my cham gasping and very lethargic... all signs point to a respiratory infection.. I've been given antibiotics to tide me over before i take him in tomorrow.. Just wondered which ones anyone on here have been given to treat it... I feer...

the vivarium heat lamp is on the left https://www.chameleonforums.com/hi-im-new-53312/index2.html it wont attach as its already in this thread lol.. eliza your in it too third thumbnail shows the set up... female no longer with us...

can you post pics form your computer on here? jpegs?

thanks ladies, I shall move my sensor... the bulb may be less than 100 I will check... memory like a sieve! (its in a cage with mesh at the bottom but i know convection can burn and also the cage its in does get hot also... think i shall move a lot of branches away too.... will try and get pics...

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=chameleon+skin+problem&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1245&bih=606&tbm=isch&tbnid=qPRyUVoEHu2fTM:&imgrefurl=http://www.reptileboards.com/threads/chameleon-skin-problem-urgent-help.61264/&docid=FjEyXRf_6L_aLM&imgurl=http://i708.photo...

I'll have to try and sort some pics tomorrow... he's gone to bed.. lol he's a 2 year old yemen temps are hard to work out as i dont have a thermometer in the viv.. just the sensor which i set to about 84... but the probe isnt sat under the lamp.. its a few cm away.... is that ok?

hya, I have been doing some research and i think my cham has either a skin problem or burns i think probably both.... my question is mainly about my lamp... (will take cham to vet) I have a glass vivarium (says firplast on the side) with an in built cage for the ceramic light I think...