kiturcotte
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Any help is appreciated! Sorry if the below information seems sporadic, I am brand new to the forums and very concerned, and a little out of my comfort zone on this one. This week hasn’t gone too great and this seems to be the icing on the cake unfortunately. I tried to be as thorough as possible, so hopefully this helpful
Attached is how he looked after the “throw up” incident, his cage, and how he looks at approximately 17:30
- Your Chameleon - Cairo: Veiled Chameleon, Male, ~3 months old, has been in my care for about 1 1/2 months
- Handling - 3-4 times a week
- Feeding - Medium/ large crickets (none larger than his head’s width) and about 10 a day. Around 8:30 in the morning, once a week he will get around 5 silkworms. Crickets are fed a gut loaded feed
- Supplements - Crickets are dusted once a week with Reptivite Reptile Vitamins with D3, the crickets themselves eat Fluker’s High Calcium Cricket Diet and Fluker’s Cricket Quencher (Calcium Fortified)
- Watering - heavy mist 3 times a day (8:30, 12:00, 16:00 roughly) but I will occasionally mist infront of him outside of these times and if he is thirsty I will continue misting until he is no longer interested
- Fecal Description - Hasn’t been tested under my care, droppings were consistent and healthy until now. Dropped maybe every other day, white urate and solid brown fecal matter with some clear liquid
- History - Had been healthy until about 3? days ago. Tolerated being held and would occasionally reach out to climb on my head. Now he runs away and tries to hide if I make a move directly towards him. Had a friend watch him Easter weekend and said that his appetite started to diminish, I thought it was because he was about to shed but it has now seemed to completely disappear and he hasn’t shed. Excessively drinking water, had a very difficult time passing waste this morning on April 19 (urate was white but EXTREMELY liquid and the decks mater was a lighter brown). Would close his eyes for a couple of seconds and then open them. Retained the same energy level and color, until I went to mist him around 12 today. Despite not spraying him he went to the mesh screen and stayed there for a couple of seconds. He then proceeded to start moving his head back and forth with his mouth open, and tried to regurgitate something in his stomach? I saw a mass ( sort of tanish colored? ) come out of his throat but he then swallowed it back down. He then turned extremely dark with light spots, and closed his eyes for two minutes… lowkey traumatized me and I was crying, but after two minutes he returned to normal and acted as if nothing happened. Four hours later he is a normal resting color, still is trying to drink as much water as he can, but no interest in any food source. He is basking but there appear to be tremors all over his body, specifically his hands and lower belly. He is occasionally closing his eyes for a couple of seconds, but then will spend periods of time just looking around and basking. His color is still a neautral green, and he has stayed at the top of the cage and hasn’t gone lower. He will occasionally get spotty like he is about to hunt, and he will look around, but when introduced to food he is not interested in eating.
- Cage Info:
- Cage Type - Screen, 16 x 16 x 30
- Lighting - I have two lamps… Fluker’s Reptaclamp with a 50W UVA and one with a 50W UVB full spectrum. Lights on at 8:30 and lights off around 7:30
- Temperature - Thermometer broke so I am ordering a new one, but I would think basking temp was around 85° with bottom being low 70s. Lowest temperature is 69° at night
- Humidity - Waiting on it to be delivered so I honestly, and regrettably as I know it is poor husbandry, am not sure but I believe it is humid enough
- Plants - No live plants, just silk in the enclosure, except a head of lettuce that is replaced every 4 days (it has a water container so it stays fresh, he usually loves to chomp on it)
- Placement - on a desk to the left of an air vent but out of the direct airflow’s course. The desk is approximately 3.5 ft tall
- Location - Athens, Georgia. I am a first year college student
- Current Problem - Same as listed in the history- I am worried he is either constipated, sick, has a parasite, or is just straight up dying. I have had other reptiles before (bearded dragons, geckos, an iguana) but this is my first chameleon. I am in college, and all of the exotic vets in my area charge a ~$300 emergency vet fee, with the closest appointment I could get being next Monday (I write this on a Tuesday)… if it comes to it I will bring him to the vet because I am so attached to him, and it is my duty as his owner to provide him with the best care. However, I am not made of money. Kind of at a loss for direction, could really use some support and guidance from peers who are much more experienced.
Attached is how he looked after the “throw up” incident, his cage, and how he looks at approximately 17:30
Adding them all now. 
