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Our cham has been on the calcium and a/d cat food for about a week now, and our vet is out of town so we went to another one to see if we should continue the force feeding or cut back on it. This vet said the cat food is fine for short-term feeding. My chameleon is looking much better - his...

I looked online and some people have had their vet recommend cat food or baby food. It doesn't sound like it's been an issue as long as they aren't eating it long term. Anybody have experience with this? His behavior is so inconsistent right now, and its hard to tell if its from the...

Well it's a soft prescription diet food that he says they give to most of their animals after surgery, so I'm assuming its ok. I looked at the ingredients and its mostly protein, calcium, some magnesium and a few other minerals. I guess we'll see how it goes.

Because that's what the vet specifically gave us. He said the protein he's getting from it is about equal to what he would get from 12 crickets. Its only for a few days and he said it will help jump start his digestive system and get his appetite going. This vet has worked well with all our...

Update We took him back to the vet and have been giving him a calcium supplement by mouth once a day, as the vet said he had become deficient from not eating. We also have to feed him cat food by mouth twice a day to get his energy and appetite back up. He said his eyes look much better, and...

We got ointment to put in his eye. Unfortunately we had to grab him to put the ointment in his eye, so his eye is open now much more than it was before and it seems to be getting better. It's been a few days since then and his bumps are still there, but the eyes are staying open now. The only...

Oh, and the vet actually removed the shedding, the ointment's just to fight off the infection.

I am in the DFW area. Took him to the other vet today. He thinks he has some shedding stuck in his eyes and gave us some ointment to put on them for the next few days. He didn't see any signs of dehydration and said he looks healthy other than the eye problem and should be fine. He said...

Thanks for the help. For right now we're giving him worms since that's all he'll take and we want him to keep eating while he's sick, but when he gets healthy again we'll try getting him back on crickets as much as possible. We tried giving the crickets some fresh apples and carrots to see if...

Chameleon Info: Your Chameleon - Amilobe Panther, Male, 10 months, have had him for 4 months. Handling - Don't handle him very often because he use to be very tempermental. He is friendly now and likes to climb out onto my hand, but don't handle him often. Feeding - Crickets and...

To the original poster, did you take yours to the vet? Find anything out? I just posted that mine has the same problem (bulge in the eye) and when I showered him with warm water just now, he started bulging his eye around just like your's did. Now it looks normal, but he's keeping it closed.

We've noticed for awhile our Panther chameleon has not been wanting crickets. We attributed that to spoiling him with worms that he was hand fed with. We got him back on crickets for awhile, but the past week or so he's only been eating about 2 a day. A few days ago I noticed one of his eyes...