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I've never had a problem with edema until now and the only thing that has really changed is that I got lazy and didn't put my catch basins out in the rain to collect the rain water for them. It is driving me crazy, but just with one species. The one I really care the most about because they...

Just found a reference of hexafluorosilicic acid in mist form causing lung edema. I've lost a few chameleons recently to lung edema. I originally thought it was LRI but it was unresponsive to antibiotic treatment. That is the same form of fluoride they use in my local water supply.

Thank you Laurie. I recently reread Doug Dix's excellent article on T. quadricornis, and it also specifically mentioned edema when exposed to different water supplies. I'm well aware of how toxic fluoride can be. The deadliest fluoride poisoning in history happened just down the street from...

Yes. The D3 is mixed with calcium already.

Oh yeah, they put the poison in the water here. We tried to pass a measure to remove it, but stupid people around here believe it is good for them and it failed.

Ah, most likely the ITC 1000. I considered that one, but you can't reprogram the PIC on it AFAIK. I can set mine up for temperature cycling/ramping by reprogramming the internal IC. Good for night drop, and also for gentle diapause ramping.

I'm starting to suspect fluoride as the cause of edema in some of my animals. If I use rain water, all signs of edema subside. When I switch back to tap water, some of my animals develop edema. I let the tap water sit for about a week to get the chlorine out before putting it in the...

Never kept either of those species but I don't see why not.

Calcium doesn't go bad, it is a mineral. It can degrade other vitamins mixed in with it in long term storage. The best place to ask is the manufacturer.

Congrats!

Chameleons Anonymous here we come. :p

OMG! It's official, I want some! :D

Quite the dilemma you've got there. ;) Fortunately I go by the facts I have available. A cricket only has a 0.33:1 calcium : phosphorus ratio. Ideal is 2:1 which mean you have to use calcium every feeding. Mealworms are around 0.7:1 Dubia are 0.4:1 These figures all vary depending on which...

If I were using commercial supplements with access to UVB lighting, it would go something like this: Light dusting of plain calcium daily, D3 once a week, multivitamin twice a month. Feeders get a varied gut load and carrots are used for cricket hydration so you get some natural beta carotene...

I keep heat tape under all my bins, no lids. Check water and food daily, no problems until they start dying of old age, then I have to do a daily sweep of corpses.

I currently have 100,000 crickets going in a 200 square foot room. They don't stink at all. If any of you have been to a large cricket farm where they have millions of healthy crickets, they don't stink there either.

STC 1000, same as I use.

I wouldn't advise it.

They are listed in order of volume. Bee pollen makes up more than half. I've done online research that shows that wild chameleons eat a ton of bees. I'm of the belief that since bee pollen is rich in vitamin B, it can help a lot of chams that are having edema problems. Edema is one of the...

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