I need help

aklap187

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Hi everyone, I'm new at this so I don't know much about the site or chameleons, my brother gave me a baby nosy be female and she has been doing good until about 3 days ago. (Shes now at best, 5 to 6 months old)
its like her eyes are closed shut and i dont know what to do. We have tried holding a warm cloth for a few minutes, which work the other day, but im not sure what is going on. any info on what this is, or how i can help her is much appreciated.
 
Please answer the questions using brand names when possible...
Cage Info:
Cage Type - What kind of cage are you using? What is the size?
Lighting - What kind of lighting are you using? How long do you keep the lights on during the day?
Temperature - What temperature range have you created? Basking spot temp? What is the temperature at night?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels?
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
Location - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas?

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon.
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What kind of schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Supplements - What are you dusting your feeders with and what kind of schedule do you use?
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
Current Problem - The current problem that you are concerned about.
 
thanks for trying to help, but we rushed her over to the vet this morning and it was a built up of sheddings on her eyes, the vet said she is in great health but needs to be misted more often to help prevent this from happening again. We are new at this and werent expecting to take her on, but after she was brought here, we have grown so fond of her and will do anything to help her have a good healthy life.

I would appreciate any knowledge you have about her. What I can tell you now is that she is approximately 5-6 months old and a Nosy Be chameleon. Im assuming about that age, when my brother gave her to me she was a tiny baby about less than the size of your pointer finger. Now she (Lizzy) fits into the palm of your hand. The vet said she weighs 21 grams and her tail is slightly thinner than what should be the norm, but with her not eating as much as she normally does the past few days, that would be expected. I dont know the brand names of the things in her cage but we have a 20 gallon glass tank with a open extension topper, she has a waterfall, and all the branches and greenery are from the reptile house. We use bark chips in the bottom of the tank and I use filtered purified water for her waterfall. We clean her tank every Friday or Saturday with new bark and sanitize her waterfall and branches. She eats crickets, we use gut load and the calcium shake for the crickets recommended by the reptile house and she just started mealworms about 2 weeks ago. We do see her every once in awhile in the waterfall drinking and she does have (which is so gross) very large droppings all through out the cage. We buy 3 dozen crickets at a time and normally she will eat about 8-12 a day, but now that we have introduced her to the mealworms she will sit inbetween both dishes and grab a worm then look over a grab a cricket. So now, I would say we give her about 4 or 5 mealworms and about 6 crickets and by the end of her feast there may be 1 cricket roaming through the cage.
 
we have her tank on a large counter in the rear of our kitchen. there is a ceiling fan in the room, but no vents or anything near her. I have 3 smaller children, so it is the only place that she can be up away from the kids. With the counter and the height of the cage, it is too high for them to get into it. We have only moved her tank from the counter to the table outside for cleaning. We do not have any live plants in her tank. What I was told is the waterfall will help maintain the humidity for her cage; being the bottom is glass. We have a regular light and a red heat light.
 
I am not sure about the shedding issue that your Vet could be talking about. They do not have eye caps like snakes do.
She should not be in a glass tank(although the topper makes it a bit better), you should not have a waterfall, you should not have any bark substrate, you should not have a red lightbulb.
A screen cage would be much better, you need live plants to maintain the humidity, and a good 3 minute misting 3 times a day would work out fine. She needs a UVB light-this is not an option, and you need to get her on a good supplement schedule using calcium with D3, without D3, and a multivit. like Herptivite. She could also potentially need to lay infertile eggs any time after 5 months so having a laying bucket of some kind is a necessity. Checking temps is also a necessity-she should have a basking spot of something 85-90 degrees. It sounds like you genuinely care about her and you have come to the right spot for help!
 
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