Extensionofgreen
Chameleon Enthusiast
The good news is that my new male veiled chameleon, from FLchams arrives, safe and sound. When he relaxes and turns green, again, I'll update with photos. He's from the beautiful "Driskel" line, and I think I'll name him Sinbad, though I'm not sure.
The bad news is that my female parsonii had gained 20 grams, in a month. In less than a month, she's lost 11 grams. I did a visual inspection of her interior mouth and notice some small plaques, at the back of the throat. We are seeing Dr. Stahl, tomorrow. I'm not happy she may have an infection, though a small and early detected one, but I'd rather know that's the cause, because otherwise I'll have to consider the possibility that the enclosure is not enough to allow happy, healthy cohabitation and she will go back to her former enclosure, rather than the palace I built for her and the male. None of my observations point to this and she was eating up until 5 days ago and she accepted my placing feeders in her mouth, after the exam, so she hasn't been off feed or showing stress, in the larger enclosure.
Stress and suppression can be subtle and failing to gain weight, regardless of how things appear to be going, is a red flag and if other possibilities aren't found to be the cause, separation is eminent and will be permanent, until the male and female are breeding age.
The bad news is that my female parsonii had gained 20 grams, in a month. In less than a month, she's lost 11 grams. I did a visual inspection of her interior mouth and notice some small plaques, at the back of the throat. We are seeing Dr. Stahl, tomorrow. I'm not happy she may have an infection, though a small and early detected one, but I'd rather know that's the cause, because otherwise I'll have to consider the possibility that the enclosure is not enough to allow happy, healthy cohabitation and she will go back to her former enclosure, rather than the palace I built for her and the male. None of my observations point to this and she was eating up until 5 days ago and she accepted my placing feeders in her mouth, after the exam, so she hasn't been off feed or showing stress, in the larger enclosure.
Stress and suppression can be subtle and failing to gain weight, regardless of how things appear to be going, is a red flag and if other possibilities aren't found to be the cause, separation is eminent and will be permanent, until the male and female are breeding age.