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Thank you very much I appreciate this feedback! Very informative and I can't wait to try this!

Here are some pics of his cage

Chameleon Info: Chameleon: Male, Veiled Chameleon, 5 months old, 4 months in my care. Handling: Almost daily, if not, maybe 3 times a week. Behavior: Shy and timid, nonaggressive. Feeding: Gutloaded and calcium dusted medium crickets. I’m lucky if he eats 6, on a good day he can eat 8, bad...

For heat, I have two 60 watt bulbs going- basking areas (2 of them) are about 90 degrees, and the top portion of his cage is about 70-77 degrees during the day. Bottom of the cage is cold though which is why I think the bottom of my cage needs more work- it's in the 60's in the bottom half (he...

My cage is screen or mesh on 3 sides and on top, with one closed side on the back. I thought the ventilation was better to avoid upper respiratory issues? This cage was built based on online resources. Regarding the cap, I have been a clear mini cap that comes out of his eye during shedding...

Hi! I appreciate your feedback! I am VERY open to husbandry chat, I may have been putting too much stock in my vet, which though I think he is knowledgeable, I'm wondering if I was let off the hook too quickly for my cage. I assure you I'm not one of those newbs, but I wouldn't go as far to say...

Welp, you've just opened the can of worms where the two opposing schools of thought with raising chameleons are coming out. They are: 1. Minimal handlers- Fact is, due to capability of brain and whatnot- chameleons really aren't affectionate. It's true, they tolerate us. In a sense, that's the...

Thank you! I get so stuck in this back-in-forth of "oh he's pulling through!" and then he gets so frail it seems he's on the verge of death, and then he picks up again. My vet said 80% of his chams die from this, though Oberyn has made it longer than many he has seen with the condition. What...

UPDATE! The diagnosis is dysecdysis of the eye cap. It's due to genetic factors we found out due to process of elimination, we have increased humidity and he sheds his entire body correctly except his eye caps, they have always been manually removed, and he can't work the other crud that gets...

I'm dealing with my little guy who can't work shedding and debris out of his eyeball. He gets extremely frail and ill every time he sheds and I worry about his ability to make it into adulthood. I'm working on getting the diagnosis name I forget it now, my reptile vet has a lot of experience and...

I'll send this pic to my vet tomorrow (he has a business phone for clients to text questions to) and ask him the diagnosis name again! We did a lot of elimination to get to this point but we didn't try ointment, I'll see what he thinks!

I'll try and find it, it's ocular something and when I knew it I remember not finding much on google. It's something in the muscles like they don't function correctly so he can't physically shed his eye correctly. We used medicinal drops to help lubricate but I'll ask him about the steroid...

His condition now

Here he is when he was healthy

So this post is going to look a lil different, I won't be posting the arduous details about my Cham as I've been through it with my vet who specializes in reptiles and it's not part of the reason he is ill. So my veiled chameleon, Oberyn, is a 5-6 month old male. And yes there is a cynical...