How can I help her?

[Stanner67]

Thank you all so much

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

As others have stated, get the proper T5ho fixture and reptile light, along with making sure your supplement properly.

Did your vet give you any meds to take home?

 

[Stanner67]

She gave me Metacam for pain

 

[Stanner67]

Said LILO was very healthy

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

She gave me Metacam for pain

Good, all that's left is to fix your light, and you should be good to go.

 

[Stanner67]

Yes that’s on my list

 

[AmandaS]

But what about your supplements? Supplements and lighting go hand-in-hand.

 

[Stanner67]

I don’t give her any supplements, I buy gut loaders every few weeks and that’s how she gets her calcium

 

[kinyonga]

What supplements do you use and how often for each? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Especially about whether they contain vitamin D3 and vitamin A (look for the words beta carotene, retinol, retinyl, retinal)...and tell me which it says) or phosphorous or calcium.

What do you feed/gutload the insects with?

Did the vet not say anything about MBD?
Or prescribe calcium for her?

Does she have a laybin in the cage. Veiled females lay eggs without being mated and need a proper place to lay them or they will die eggbound.

 

[hiddenflaws]

Yes I’m on my way to Petco now

Does Petco sell the hood as well? If so, I did not know that!

 

[Stanner67]

What supplements do you use and how often for each? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Especially about whether they contain vitamin D3 and vitamin A (look for the words beta carotene, retinol, retinyl, retinal)...and tell me which it says) or phosphorous or calcium.

What do you feed/gutload the insects with?

Did the vet not say anything about MBD?
Or prescribe calcium for her?

Does she have a laybin in the cage. Veiled females lay eggs without being mated and need a proper place to lay them or they will die eggbound.

I don’t give her any supplements.
I give her vita bugs crickets for calcium.
The vet didn’t say anything about MBD, she said the leg is broken.
She was only given pain medication and the vet said she was otherwise very healthy.
And no, there’s no lay bin. Can you tell me how to make her one please?

 

[Stanner67]

Does Petco sell the hood as well? If so, I did not know that!

No I didn’t find one at Petco. I plan on going online

 

[kinyonga]

Egg laying bin...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/egg-laying-and-the-laying-bin.345/

 

[Stanner67]

Egg laying bin...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/egg-laying-and-the-laying-bin.345/

Thank you

 

[hiddenflaws]

No I didn’t find one at Petco. I plan on going online

Yeah, that's what I thought. The best time to buy what I recommended would be now. That's the cheapest I've seen the prices in awhile and I'm sure they will go back up again soon.

 

[kinyonga]

Without proper exposure to the uvb light or direct sunlight (not through glass) or/and proper supplementing chameleons develop MBD. Providing the chameleon with calcium won't do her much good if she doesn't have enough D3 (from supplementing properly with some and providing UVB light so she can produce the rest of the D3) so that the calcium in her system can be absorbed. Vitamin A and phosphorous also play a part in this....so we recommend that at all feedings but 4 a month the insects are dusted just before feeding them to the chameleon lightly with a phos free calcium powder.....twice a month at two week intervals (on 2 of the 4 days the calcium is not used) dust with a phos free calcium/D3 powder lightly and the other 2 days at two week intervals dust lightly with a vitamin powder that contains a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

Can you please post photos of her other side so I can see the limbs on that side.

 

[Stanner67]

Without proper exposure to the uvb light or direct sunlight (not through glass) or/and proper supplementing chameleons develop MBD. Providing the chameleon with calcium won't do her much good if she doesn't have enough D3 (from supplementing properly with some and providing UVB light so she can produce the rest of the D3) so that the calcium in her system can be absorbed. Vitamin A and phosphorous also play a part in this....so we recommend that at all feedings but 4 a month the insects are dusted just before feeding them to the chameleon lightly with a phos free calcium powder.....twice a month at two week intervals (on 2 of the 4 days the calcium is not used) dust with a phos free calcium/D3 powder lightly and the other 2 days at two week intervals dust lightly with a vitamin powder that contains a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

Can you please post photos of her other side so I can see the limbs on that side.

 

[Stanner67]

This is her bother side

 

[Stanner67]

Without proper exposure to the uvb light or direct sunlight (not through glass) or/and proper supplementing chameleons develop MBD. Providing the chameleon with calcium won't do her much good if she doesn't have enough D3 (from supplementing properly with some and providing UVB light so she can produce the rest of the D3) so that the calcium in her system can be absorbed. Vitamin A and phosphorous also play a part in this....so we recommend that at all feedings but 4 a month the insects are dusted just before feeding them to the chameleon lightly with a phos free calcium powder.....twice a month at two week intervals (on 2 of the 4 days the calcium is not used) dust with a phos free calcium/D3 powder lightly and the other 2 days at two week intervals dust lightly with a vitamin powder that contains a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

Can you please post photos of her other side so I can see the limbs on that side.

Ok si the I thought the D3 wasn't good for her.

 

[Stanner67]

Without proper exposure to the uvb light or direct sunlight (not through glass) or/and proper supplementing chameleons develop MBD. Providing the chameleon with calcium won't do her much good if she doesn't have enough D3 (from supplementing properly with some and providing UVB light so she can produce the rest of the D3) so that the calcium in her system can be absorbed. Vitamin A and phosphorous also play a part in this....so we recommend that at all feedings but 4 a month the insects are dusted just before feeding them to the chameleon lightly with a phos free calcium powder.....twice a month at two week intervals (on 2 of the 4 days the calcium is not used) dust with a phos free calcium/D3 powder lightly and the other 2 days at two week intervals dust lightly with a vitamin powder that contains a beta carotene source of vitamin A.

Can you please post photos of her other side so I can see the limbs on that side.

this is her home. Is there anything I should change?