Thanks for your reply. To play it safe I removed Fred, everything associated with him, including his feeder crickets to my friend’s house for a week from the time my place was sprayed. Two days after bringing him home he developed an eye infection and I brought him to my vet because we have no chameleon specialists in the ski town I live in (Steamboat Springs, CO). The closest “expert” is 3-4 hours away. After returning, all of his 100+ crickets died despite being kept in a large Tupperware bin where I cut out half the top and put screening over it so they can breath - toxic fumes…
My vet treated his eye with antibiotic eye drops and was texting her colleague in L.A. the whole time Fred was there. She now wants me to bring him down to Denver or to the vet school in Fort Collins. I’m positive it was the pesticide that made him sick and even though his eye has greatly improved (he couldn’t even see out of his right eye), he still is not himself. His appetite decreased and I have to bring him to his “watering thing” he always drinks out of. He’s only 7 months old as well.
My fear is that this was continue even after I have him checked out.
Has anyone had this experience, and does anyone know how I can deal with and hopefully eradicate the residual poison? I have been vacuuming, cleaning, leaving my window open, all the fans going, etc.
All I can think of doing is calling the extermination company my apartment complex hired, hopefully who can help me with this.
What are people’s thoughts on this situation?
Thank you sooo much!
