Bump??

While the huffing can be attributed to hissing, it shouldn’t continue for more than a few seconds. Also, I don’t like that you heard a popping noise with his breathing. These are usually signs of respiratory infection. All things considered, I’d be going to a vet as soon as I could.
 
You are seeing some warning signs here of problems (refusing food even treats, breathing concerns and as beman pointed out abnormal fecal movement

These are all concerning

I’d call the vet you have an appointment with and see if they can get your guy in sooner
 
Unfortunately the only time they could take me today is 5:40pm and work will not let me off today. I work tomorrow as well.
Do you think he will make it til Friday or Thursday(if they have an opening)? And what can I do until then?
 
Are you able to get video of this breathing behavior? You'll have to upload it to YouTube, or another media site to share it, unfortunately.
 
He hasn't made any sounds yet today or last night. This morning he woke up and went to bask which is good because he hadn't done that. Since he hasn't gone up to the high branch to eat or anything, I moved his feeder a lil lower so at least he can see the crickets and eat- the crickets that I have left right now(the hornworms I just bought weren't looking great since he hadn't been eating them so I had to get rid of those) are pretty small so I hand picked out some big ones for him.
Depending on what the vet says(because God I hope he's gonna be okay) I'll order those bigger ones.
I'll try to keep you guys updated.
 
Just leaving the vet,

So the bump, the vet said could very well just been a fall. He inspected it so it isn't a bug bite or tumor. Just said to keep an eye. Unfortunately, Jax didn't provide any poop for the test before appointment and yesterday's I just found this morning(which I deemed to be too dry to even test).

His behavior has slightly improved. Jax was sunning before this and really only taking crickets from our hands rather than his feeder(still very off behavior).

The doctor said to try carnivore supplement and a soak. He said to do very, very shallow water in a container or whatever and gently place him in it, say it'd hydrate him through his lower part. As soon as I get his fecal though, I'm going to drop it off for testing because I really wanna upgrade his enclosure. Because this went decently, I'm going to order him his new crickets and such.
 
kinyonga said:
I added more to my last post.
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I appreciate it. Trust me, I'm getting that MistKing and I already have a fogger so I'll get that on a timer.

And like the article said, the vet really is just to tell me stuff about his fecal- that's why I'm asking here first before I do anything for him. Also I did use the reptivite today very light ddusting so my crickets dont look like a ghost-

And to doubke check, The Reptivite with D3, is twice a month, and the Calcuim w/o d3 is every day?
 
I think I recall that you said that you’re in Florida. For central Florida, a fantastic vet, Dr Bogoslavsky, just retired a couple of weeks ago and it is truly a huge loss for the chameleon community here (at least imo). I went to https://www.orlandoexoticveterinari...e&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gbp_orlando and saw Dr Shuflita. Of course, first thing out of the vet techs mouth is asking me about soaking. I told him that I am very against soaking chameleons and it wasn’t mentioned again. The vets are good there, but they think chameleons should be soaked…probably all reptiles. I may be wrong, but the only reptile that can actually drink and even breathe thru their cloaca/vent is some turtles. Anyhow, there is another vet in the area, Dr Alfonso, and I hear he is awesome with chameleons. I think he only sees exotics. However, he is a mobile vet and doesn’t have an office that you go to. Instead, he makes house calls, which is beyond fantastic, but you need to live in or around Orlando. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057133913293 He is doing a clinic Nov 19th in Lakeland. Attaching the ad below. I was going to take my guy Lucky, but I didn’t want his eye problem to wait so long.
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MissSkittles said:
I think I recall that you said that you’re in Florida. For central Florida, a fantastic vet, Dr Bogoslavsky, just retired a couple of weeks ago and it is truly a huge loss for the chameleon community here (at least imo). I went to https://www.orlandoexoticveterinari...e&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gbp_orlando and saw Dr Shuflita. Of course, first thing out of the vet techs mouth is asking me about soaking. I told him that I am very against soaking chameleons and it wasn’t mentioned again. The vets are good there, but they think chameleons should be soaked…probably all reptiles. I may be wrong, but the only reptile that can actually drink and even breathe thru their cloaca/vent is some turtles. Anyhow, there is another vet in the area, Dr Alfonso, and I hear he is awesome with chameleons.
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I live in Southern Florida sadly- anything in Orlando or winter park is very far for me and I think a long time for him. However, if it is very serious I'll make the trip depending on what his fecal test will say.
And yeah, turtles sounds abt right. Look, even when he said that I kinda- cringed and was like "..are you sure-?" I'd known that going in via Neptune mentioning it..I just wanted to- double check- plus, just thinking about it for two seconds, Jax and I'm 90% sure all panthers HATE water spraying them??

Really, again this vet visit was mainly for the bump and general stuff.
 
Hey guys, so Jax still has no appetite but still drinking. The vet only takes fecal samples during week days. So any advice on how to get him to eat?? He used to just take hand feeding but he's not doing that so- any help would be nice till I can see if(which he probably does)he has parasites.


Also ordered his mister today!!
 

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ehdee6 said:
Have you tried to get him to open his mouth and putting a bug in?

Sort of like this:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/tricking-her-chameleon….195228/

This is only if you feel totally confident you can do it without causing harm:


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I haven't as I really don't wanna stress him out by grabbing him- but lately he's not even taking feeding so.im getting desperate. I love the first video but that's only if he even takes a treat worm-
The forcing him to open his mouth, again, just feels a little too much and I'm DEFINETLY not that confident in that I won't hurt him-
 
I tried again today, he's literally turning his head away from crickets, I just got bigger ones today. Still, no on hornworms- and I was gonna attempt to open his mouth but he pretty upset and started to back away from me. If I'm going to do any fecal test, I kinda need the guy to eat-(which I assume you all already know).
I'm kind of clueless of what to do. So far all the vets recommended to me are 2 hours away and having the time to drive out that far is easier said than done. The critical care carnivore was recommended to me by the vet, is that an option?
 
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