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Buying reptiles for kids to young to care for them. Reptiles transmit diseases to young kids and kids kill reptiles with poor care yet you will find these idiot parents buying animals for their 5 year olds anyways. Just want to beat them over the head with a stick.

Unfortunately the best treatment is a total scrap of plants and sticks in the enclosure, along with albon for the chameleon. The lifecycle is direct. The protozoa infects the cells lining the GI tract and multiply. They produce oocysts (eggs) that are excreted with feces. The oocysts will hatch...

As long as one side is open as well as the top. With the heat of the lamps you will get a chimney effect that brings in fresh air at the bottom. So no its not like an aquarium. More like a terrarium which others have shown can work well for chameleons.

The first thing to do is stop asking Petco for help. They sell animals but have no idea of their proper care. They often sell bad equipment for the pets and certainly give bad advice. You will do better asking answers here on these forums.

here's another such discussion: https://www.chameleonforums.com/genetics-how-do-they-work-rather-long-post-77190/

$2000 for a calcitonin injection? Maybe I should go back to private practice. While you can do well with simply correcting the calcium imbalance the calcitonin will speed calcium incorporation to the bones. Did you get x-rays or bloodwork? Let us know how he progresses.

Sometimes these swollen eyes are from clogged nasolacrimal ducts. This can be due to low humidity, infection, gout or vitamin A deficiency. Does her vitamin supplement contain a preformed vitamin A or beta carotene? If she doesn't get preformed vitamin A you could try a multivitamin with...

Lover her colors BTW.

Almost looks like a small laceration on the eyelid near the base at the inside corner. Can you verify?

It wouldn't hurt to flush his eye with normal saline eye drops. Don't use Visine or anything designed "to get the red out". There is no test for vitamin A deficiency and a diagnosis is based on reaction to treatment. I would follow Junglefies advice about the lights first. If no improvement...

Is that a swelling on his front leg just above the wrist?

I wonder if what you are seeing is the gular air sac being inflated because the abdomen is full of eggs. They have a pouch like air sac in the neck area. Sometimes these will swell if there is infection of the lungs. They may be inflated more because of the pressure in the abdomen and the lungs...

Buy more chameleons :D

I don't know enough about pregnancy induced edemas to respond. Is this a common problem? I will say that we just don't know enough about the requirements of vitamin A to make much of any statement. THE Reptile book by Mader relies on some very old data by Ferguson who couldn't raise chameleons...

Jann, Are those colors normal daily colors or just when they are mating/threatened? I've only seen one panther in real life and it was a Nosey Be. It was gorgeous but not sure it this his how they always are since this was a a crowded reptile show. The sires that are always shown I suspect are...

A long misting or a shower and then a web q-tip as Jann said.

A few hours of real sunshine should be plenty to generate enough active D. You should not need to supplement UVB after bringing him inside. He will still need calcium though. Besides, they do need dark when they sleep. Night lights will only stress him.

Really need more information. Fill out the https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/ and post a picture.

Chameleons do this. They send out to the ACME company and get clown suits. First they put on the red noses then after a few days they put on the floppy clown shoes. Next thing you know it has face paint and a tutu. Not to worry its only doing it out of boredom and to freak out the owner. /s...

So what size cage does one of those monsters need? Just out of curiosity. They are out of my pay grade.