Bumps on side of veiled cham?

[zqblondie]

my 5 month or so old female veiled has these bumps on her side. She has had them since I got her roughly a month ago, and was wondering if they were something I should be alarmed about?
You can see them on the picture below kind of in the middle of her body near her ribcage, there are like 3 or 4 of them.

 

[dodolah]

hmm whatever it is, mine also has the same thing

 

[Brad Ramsey]

nematodes?
Someone else will have to chime in here....my guess is parasites.

-Brad

 

[dodolah]

nematodes will be visible all the time, right?
i believe this only visible when he's stretching or bending his rib cage.
i don't know exactly about your case.. but in mine definitely not parasites.
he has a fecal check already and it came out negative.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

I'm not sure subcutaneous nematodes would always show up on a fecal float.
Certainly intestinal parasites that have migrated would, but not necessarily those that originated under the skin from insect bites for example.
It would be rather uncommon for a captive bred animal to have this type of parasite although stranger things have happened.

-Brad

 

[PardalisGirl]

Sub-Cutaneous Nematodes.

My guess would be nematodes that migrated to the skin too. You can't always see them. The cham can be sitting in such a way that they seem invisible. They also move around a little. When you feel those spots are they hard like a tiny grain of rice or are they soft? I also saw one cham that had tiny hard bumps here and there on the ribs. They were deposits from over supplimentation.

 

[kinyonga]

If it does not look like a piece of string under the skin...but is just bumps and they are on/over the ribs, then they could be calcification or gout.

 

[herpluva]

My cham has those too and it feels like part of the rib cage to me. It is not parasites but my guy is almost 6 months and I think its just something that happens while they grow maybe. I might be wrong but that is my guess.

 

[azula]

there actually most likely bumps from not getting enough calcium.if you go to general discussion and find the entry called "bumps on ribcage! help???" there is a lot of information that will tell you what it is and such.

 

[Texas Panther Man]

Dude that thread is almost 4yrs old.

 

[ChameleonRave]

eh we all do it once in a while no biggie!