Help sick adult male veiled chameleon
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Carlton
Chameleon Enthusiast
Well, to avoid getting suggestions that could make things even worse, could you please give a little more information about what's wrong?
For example, if he's dehydrated and not drinking, giving drops of Pedialyte might give him a bit of energy and electrolytes, but be careful. If you force fluids down his throat he could aspirate it and end up choking or with pneumonia.
If he's lying still, eyes shut, and he's not responsive, he may be dying now and handling him could cause unnecessary stress and pain. If he is showing odd patches of unusually light or dark coloration that's a sign he's close to death now.
Hes 21 inches long nearly 2 years old he's unresponsive lying down with his eyes shut but he will stand and wheeze every so often and has started to blacken but is bright he was fine about 4 hours ago then started hanging in his heat lamp he was still strong enough to bite the crap outa me then he just started getting really unresponsive and his eyes sunk in now he's just lying here weezing
JoeVet
Established Member
A photo would help and fill in the https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/ If it is respiratory it could be bacterial, fungal, parasitic, viral. That is really something you need a vet for. You could see if there is an emergency veterinary service in your area. They may be able to help stabilize him.
Kayroxyoursox
New Member
Good luck
