**This is my first ever chameleon. I'm new to knowing what issues are serious and what issues aren't, sorry if it sounds like I'm overreacting.**
My female veiled is about 5-6 months old, she's not very big and doesn't eat much (2-3 crickets every other day), this is normal but just this morning I noticed her slowing down. She was still asleep, when normally she wakes up when I mist her cage in the morning. I figured she was just tired and let her be. She was still asleep when something happened;
The Repti-Calcium I use to dust her crickets slid under the heat lamp without me noticing, I saw smoke quickly and the plastic from the container had melted onto the light bulb-- no big deal, right? Throw away the bulb, replace said bulb, all is well! I opened the windows in my room, turned on the fan and aired the horrible scent out, but I never took Gigi (my veiled) out of her habitat because I didn't want to wake her. Could THAT have caused this?
She has not had any water today and when she finally managed to move to her meal worms, she ate one of them and then passed out in the bowl instantly. That was when I realized something was very wrong, there is no reason for her to be sleeping all day and night. I took the bowl out with her in it, picked her up and set her on my bed. She woke up (quite angrily) and then fell back asleep. I took a syringe and filled it with water **mixed with Reptisafe** and tried to feed her water, seeing as every answer about chameleons over-sleeping was dehydration. She refused to drink any and fell back asleep. She is now sleeping on my bed and I'm about to put her back in her screen cage.
ANY ADVICE IS HELPFUL, I'M EXTREMELY CONCERNED.
update: put her back in the cage and she's moving off-balance and VERY slow to her favorite sleeping spot on the jungle vine. She's extremely weak and tired. I'm taking her to a vet tomorrow, is it to late to do anything??? PLEASE HELP
My female veiled is about 5-6 months old, she's not very big and doesn't eat much (2-3 crickets every other day), this is normal but just this morning I noticed her slowing down. She was still asleep, when normally she wakes up when I mist her cage in the morning. I figured she was just tired and let her be. She was still asleep when something happened;
The Repti-Calcium I use to dust her crickets slid under the heat lamp without me noticing, I saw smoke quickly and the plastic from the container had melted onto the light bulb-- no big deal, right? Throw away the bulb, replace said bulb, all is well! I opened the windows in my room, turned on the fan and aired the horrible scent out, but I never took Gigi (my veiled) out of her habitat because I didn't want to wake her. Could THAT have caused this?
She has not had any water today and when she finally managed to move to her meal worms, she ate one of them and then passed out in the bowl instantly. That was when I realized something was very wrong, there is no reason for her to be sleeping all day and night. I took the bowl out with her in it, picked her up and set her on my bed. She woke up (quite angrily) and then fell back asleep. I took a syringe and filled it with water **mixed with Reptisafe** and tried to feed her water, seeing as every answer about chameleons over-sleeping was dehydration. She refused to drink any and fell back asleep. She is now sleeping on my bed and I'm about to put her back in her screen cage.
ANY ADVICE IS HELPFUL, I'M EXTREMELY CONCERNED.
update: put her back in the cage and she's moving off-balance and VERY slow to her favorite sleeping spot on the jungle vine. She's extremely weak and tired. I'm taking her to a vet tomorrow, is it to late to do anything??? PLEASE HELP
