Hi all,
Long time reader, first time poster. My wife and I rescued a sub-adult Veiled Chameleon that was found crossing a busy street in an urban part of Vermont. The lizard was emaciated at the time, and after eventually finding the owners learned it had been loose for about two weeks and that they were not interested in taking the animal back. The Chameleon (we named him Valspar), did start to put weight back on, but has plateaued and is still pretty scrawny. After finding out none of the vets in my area do in-house floats anymore we decided to do a float ourselves and see what turned up rather than sending out to a lab (my wife works in the veterinary field, so while not a vet, we have access to all the necessary materials). I believe what I am looking at is coccidia and pinworm eggs, but I could really use a second opinion as I am not confident in my ID (the cells with two nuclei also look like giardia to me, but from my understanding that is not very common and giardia cells are much smaller, not that there is anything in the pics for scale...).
From what I have read, pinworms are often not problematic, but coccidia definitely is. I am sorry these pictures are not great (cell phone through the microscope lens). Can someone here confirm for me what I am looking at? Thank you so much in advance!
Long time reader, first time poster. My wife and I rescued a sub-adult Veiled Chameleon that was found crossing a busy street in an urban part of Vermont. The lizard was emaciated at the time, and after eventually finding the owners learned it had been loose for about two weeks and that they were not interested in taking the animal back. The Chameleon (we named him Valspar), did start to put weight back on, but has plateaued and is still pretty scrawny. After finding out none of the vets in my area do in-house floats anymore we decided to do a float ourselves and see what turned up rather than sending out to a lab (my wife works in the veterinary field, so while not a vet, we have access to all the necessary materials). I believe what I am looking at is coccidia and pinworm eggs, but I could really use a second opinion as I am not confident in my ID (the cells with two nuclei also look like giardia to me, but from my understanding that is not very common and giardia cells are much smaller, not that there is anything in the pics for scale...).
From what I have read, pinworms are often not problematic, but coccidia definitely is. I am sorry these pictures are not great (cell phone through the microscope lens). Can someone here confirm for me what I am looking at? Thank you so much in advance!
