My apologies I didn't realize the stuck piece was around her nose and yes I agree I wouldn’t put a drop of mineral oil there just to be on the safe side.
A lot of the scratches and abrasions found on wild caughts sometimes take a few sheds to finally come off and disappear. My original response was to address improper shedding on those hard to shed places like toes and spines, not necessarily 100% for you but as well as for other people to learn. I took a look through your photo album and past threads and she looks okay (it is a female BTW). If you want to put a small drop of baby oil on those areas you can but you can also wait for another shed as well to finally let all of the scratches etc. heal over once and for all. Reptiles take a lot longer to recover from injuries than mammals do. I'm more concerned about her appetite though; is she eating any more for you? Wild caughts are a little tricky and I think it was Carlton and/or Hoj that mentioned that showering is good for wild caughts and it truly is. If time and money allow it perhaps give her a 15 minute shower every day for a week or two, this will help hydrate her and flush out her system. It will also help with the sheds. Once she is settled in a bit more and eating I would recommend getting a fecal done to rule out any internal parasites that may affect her long term health. Senegal's don't always recognize some our captive insects like silks and horns as prey but they will accept crickets, roaches and flies. In fact I don't think I've ever seen a chameleon turn down a fly! Sometimes too, these wild caughts seem to like green insects so if you can catch some katydids or grasshoppers, she may be more interested in those as well. Also dusting in Spirulina will change any insect into an irresistible green coloured one.
LOL! I can assure you
that will never change. Dang chameleons!
Ok, just 1 question for you. How can you tell it is a female? I haven't been able to find anything definitive on Senegals, but I can find plenty on Veileds and Panthers...I have even been able to sex a whole group of Veileds at the local PetCo. (They are very well taken care of there by a great reptile keeper.) Please include anatomical markers for me to check for in the future.
And, yes, once I changed it's basking light, the appetite kicked in like crazy! It re-explored its enclosure, top to bottom, turned a bright green (currently an even brighter green after the shed btw) and ate 8 crickets and 3 mealworms as soon as I put the cup near it. It also is eating mealworms out of my hand and off people who stop by's arms while they are holding it.
I apologize for referring to it as IT, but I want to make sure of its sex before I use HE or SHE. It also does not have a name yet. My girlfriend and I allow a 1 month period to go by, in the event that our new pet doesn't survive, without a name to avoid getting too attached, but now that month has passed for my cham! I have been coming up with both male and female names as well as some that could work for either. I have a few that are sticking but have not been said out loud.
Once I have a name, it will go through the usual "naming ceremony" were I will announce the name to my girlfriend, and I will make a sign to go on it's enclosure stating it's newly given name. We have done this will all of our animals ever since we had a few die very early on...now it is a superstition...if you give it a name before the month passes, it will die. (That has actually happened, we had a Red Eyed Tree Frog that my girlfriend blurted out a name before the month was up, and it died the next day, so we don't do that anymore)
Yes, I know it is weird. Yes, I get strange looks when my family asks what our pets name is when we first get it and we tell them, "wait a month and we will tell you." No, I don't care how weird it is. It works for us.
it's about half way done. I just doubled his daily misting. I use warmer water too
