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Thank you so so much! You are a life saver... I am not sure what the vet was telling me. Have a great rest of your day! I appreciate your help and will do my very best to improve on my setup and husbandry areas for all of my chams. :)

Thank you so much! Your information was extremely helpful. I was fortunately able to find a high quality oral, liquid calcium supplement that I can afford. I will do my best to fix the lighting. One more question, my chameleon has gotten to the point where he is losing control of his limbs. He...

No... the vet explained that the UVB light could have been faulty or we could have forgotten to change it for a while. Thank you so much. I was not aware that the bulbs were inadequate. Is there any chance the disease can be temporarily treated if we get the correct light?

So basically there is a treatment where you take your Chameleon in and they perform therapy using a specific UV light tool. The therapy can last for weeks. I also cannot afford calcium injections that the vet will periodically inject into the Chameleon.

The treatment options we were given were Calcium injections and UVB light therapy. This was the only decent photo I was able to get. He was not having it today...

Yes, this was a professional vet specializing in reptiles. From my understanding MBD is caused by issues with diets, and husbandry errors as they are growing. We think there could have been a faulty UVB bulb or simply waited too long to change the bulb... here are some pictures. The ones of my...

Hello! I am a chameleon owner of currently three Veilds. One of them, an 11 month old male, has never been quite "right". He was unusually small and struggled from birth. We managed to keep him as healthy as possible. Recently we have been noticing many symptoms of MBD... we asked a professional...