ColombiaCham
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? Panther, Female, 8 months, 4 months
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? once a week
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? Crickets, and Discoids as a staple, supers, hornworms, waxworms on ocassion. Crickets about 5-7 a day discoids 3-4. Gut load them with Sandrachamelon dry-gut load recipe, Mustard green, red pepers, romaine, apples, oranges, squash.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? Rephashy Calcium plus every other day. Rep cal w/out D3 every day (i alternate these every week), Repcal w d3 Once a month. Acidophliz+ (probitics) every other week and a half
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? Mist king every 3 Hours for 3 minutes, Yes
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? The consistency is firm, dark brown in color urates are white.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
The Chameleon is active
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? Screen 2'x2'x3'
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? Reptisun 5.0 and Reptisun 2.0 and 60 w incandescent for basking. 14 hours
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? 89 basking and 75 lower end. Digital thermometer and probe.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? 50%, 70% when the mister is working digital hygrometer
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? Shefflera Arboricola Potted covered with large river rocks.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? Placement in the CHAM room, no fans, and the air vent is in the other side. The top of the cage is at 6' the bottom at 3'
Location - Where are you geographically located? Miami ,FL
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
I run fecals (smears and floats) every 6 months for my animals (myself). But I found something weird yesterday in her smear at 800X there were these swimming rods all over the place and cannot identify them. They are in high concentrations. The chameleon has shown no ill effect YET. But I am really concerned.
here is video of the microbes
and a video of the probiotics (since i thought these could also be the culprits but the are indeed smaller and less active)
Please enlarge the videos so you can see them better.
Picture of her:
Any help will be appreciated.
Alvaro S
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? Panther, Female, 8 months, 4 months
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? once a week
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? Crickets, and Discoids as a staple, supers, hornworms, waxworms on ocassion. Crickets about 5-7 a day discoids 3-4. Gut load them with Sandrachamelon dry-gut load recipe, Mustard green, red pepers, romaine, apples, oranges, squash.
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? Rephashy Calcium plus every other day. Rep cal w/out D3 every day (i alternate these every week), Repcal w d3 Once a month. Acidophliz+ (probitics) every other week and a half
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? Mist king every 3 Hours for 3 minutes, Yes
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? The consistency is firm, dark brown in color urates are white.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
The Chameleon is active
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? Screen 2'x2'x3'
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? Reptisun 5.0 and Reptisun 2.0 and 60 w incandescent for basking. 14 hours
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps? 89 basking and 75 lower end. Digital thermometer and probe.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? 50%, 70% when the mister is working digital hygrometer
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? Shefflera Arboricola Potted covered with large river rocks.
Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? Placement in the CHAM room, no fans, and the air vent is in the other side. The top of the cage is at 6' the bottom at 3'
Location - Where are you geographically located? Miami ,FL
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
I run fecals (smears and floats) every 6 months for my animals (myself). But I found something weird yesterday in her smear at 800X there were these swimming rods all over the place and cannot identify them. They are in high concentrations. The chameleon has shown no ill effect YET. But I am really concerned.
here is video of the microbes
and a video of the probiotics (since i thought these could also be the culprits but the are indeed smaller and less active)
Please enlarge the videos so you can see them better.
Picture of her:
Any help will be appreciated.
Alvaro S
