A few months ago my panther chameleon's skin started forming dry patches along his leg and base of his tail which wouldn't shed.. I started misting more frequently during the day to help raise the humidity and see if it would help. After about 3 months of this we brought him to the vet to check and make sure it wasn't anything more serious. She said that it looked like a fungal infection and gave us F10 Ointment. When we started using it, some dry areas turned orange and eventually shed, but the skin at the base of his tail started turning a really dark colour.
We told the vet about this and she recommended flamazine (Silver sulfadiazine). After about a week of using it his skin became really thick and brown in which we were told to use a toothbrush to scrub it off as it looked like it could be dead skin. She said if it still looked the same to continue using it for another week, and if it doesn't clear up they're going to do a biopsy. After doing the scrub his skin now looks a dark almost black colour, and it seems to have spread quite a lot..
I'm really worried and just wanted to see everyone's opinions here who knows what this is or has experienced this before..
The pictures are before we started using the flamazine, and a picture from tonight after I put the cream on.
We told the vet about this and she recommended flamazine (Silver sulfadiazine). After about a week of using it his skin became really thick and brown in which we were told to use a toothbrush to scrub it off as it looked like it could be dead skin. She said if it still looked the same to continue using it for another week, and if it doesn't clear up they're going to do a biopsy. After doing the scrub his skin now looks a dark almost black colour, and it seems to have spread quite a lot..
I'm really worried and just wanted to see everyone's opinions here who knows what this is or has experienced this before..
The pictures are before we started using the flamazine, and a picture from tonight after I put the cream on.