MARK ON SKIN HELP ASAP

[Henry chameleon]

need help ASAP. My chameleon has brown mark on it. Recently I’ve noticed this mark on his under side or legs/ bum. And there’s also a patch on his right nostril but I’m unsure if it’s related. I will attach photos.ignore my dirty nails I just finished work in construction

 

[Henry chameleon]

I am worried that it could be fungal. I keep his enclosure clean and correct temperature and have a spray system and feed with powdered crickets I don’t see how it could happen

 

[Beman]

You need a reptile vet. Like soon. Call around you want someone that actually has experience working with reptiles. If you tell us what city/state you live in we may be able to recommend someone.
Does not look like a burn at all. Concerned about the location if it is impacting being able to pass fecal and urate. Neither the leg or the nostril look good. If it is growing in size it very well could be fungal.

 

[Henry chameleon]

He seems to be fine passing food. I live in the uk London. I was looking up fungi before and not I could see resembled it much. Could it be CANV?

 

[Beman]

He seems to be fine passing food. I live in the uk London. I was looking up fungi before and not I could see resembled it much. Could it be CANV?

Ok I can not help with the UK but yes it could be CANV. I would find a good vet where you live that knows reptiles.

 

[Henry chameleon]

if it is isn’t that incurable?

 

[Beman]

if it is isn’t that incurable?

There are oral meds and then if I remember correctly topical iodine but yes prognosis is death. It is not curable. It is also contagious to other reptiles.

 

[Henry chameleon]

Are there other things it could be that aren’t life ending?

 

[kinyonga]

CANV is curable. You need to run a test to find out that's what it is to begin with...so you need a good chameleon vet. If it is CANV then it can be treated topically with flamazine and orally with itraconazole. It needs to be dealt with quickly if it's CANV though.

I'm not sure that's what it is. I'm not a vet but going just by my experience. (Two of the three chameleons mentioned in the original study of CANV done by Jean Pare were mine...so I was involved from the beginning in it.)

 

[Henry chameleon]

Did your chameleons survive and if so how long did they live and was their death due to it eventually? I need as much hope as I can get as I’m worrying a lot honestly

 

[Henry chameleon]

It seems like there isn’t a crazy amount of info on it is canv a new issue?

 

[kinyonga]

Did your chameleons survive and if so how long did they live and was their death due to it eventually? I need as much hope as I can get as I’m worrying a lot honestly

If you read the study, you'll see that one of the two died before we could treat it but not from the CANV. It was wild caught and had other issues.
The Parson's (also wild caught) lived for a number of years and died from something else in the end.

https://www.uamh.ca/Research/_/medi...NV_mycoses_in_chameleons_JZooWildMedJSTOR.pdf

 

[kinyonga]

It seems like there isn’t a crazy amount of info on it is canv a new issue?

Nope...first study was the one I gave you the link to in the post above.

 

[Beman]

CANV is curable. You need to run a test to find out that's what it is to begin with...so you need a good chameleon vet. If it is CANV then it can be treated topically with flamazine and orally with itraconazole. It needs to be dealt with quickly if it's CANV though.

I'm not sure that's what it is. I'm not a vet but going just by my experience. (Two of the three chameleons mentioned in the original study of CANV done by Jean Pare were mine...so I was involved from the beginning in it.)

Send me articles please. Everything I have read says that it eventually effects the organs and life expectancy is maybe 12 months.

 

[kinyonga]

Give me a few minutes...they aren't as easy to find now.

The organs are/were effected sometimes...that's one reason why you have to get it dealt with quickly.

 

[Beman]

Give me a few minutes...they aren't as easy to find now.

The organs are/were effected sometimes...that's one reason why you have to get it dealt with quickly.

Thank you I would love that. When you have time hun.