Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Jackson Chameleon, Female, around 10-11 months old
How long has it been in your care? 8-9months
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? Besides when examing problem or giving water, only once every 3 days or longer.
Feeding - Was feeding crickets with vitamin powder about 4-7 medium size a day unless full. They were gut loaded with that cricket gel type stuff and given water in a sponge. This was all when she was healthy though, lately she won't eat crickets and was only eating meal worms. Last couple days not eating at all.
Supplements - Herp Care cricket dusting supplement
Watering - I use a dripper on the top of the cage with a cup that catches it on the bottom of the cage, I use the water in our kitchen or the water from our water bottles. This gets cleaned out and replaced each day. Misting was more frequent before but only about once a day now since she seems to get stressed and irritated by it.
Fecal Description - Seems normal brown color when ever she did eat sometimes little pieces of the incests in it.
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? Not that I recall.
History - She always crawled around a lot before, drank a good amount of water every few days, ate all her crickets and occasional meal worms (5-7 crickets & 2-4 worms) before she got sick. She was more lively and sassy before too and seemed to like coming out of her cage and chilling on my shirt.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen with sturdy plastic edges and easy clean bottom.
Lighting - We live in Hawaii temperature around a normal 79-84 during day which is when we let her sit on our patio in the sun (half of cage) for a few hours checking periodicly and leaving dripper going. Also on the colder days or clouding days when she can't be out we have a heating bulb by zoo med to keep her warm.
Temperature - Highest around 84 lowest around 75 unless using bulb.
Humidity - Not sure but we mist the cage each day.
Plants - Used fake plants with a few srings of a green dry air plant that fans out and she likes to hide under.
Placement - By our window (which sun cannot shine on since its under porch roof) level to our window hight.
Location - Hawaii closer to the mountains then the beaches so a little more elevated but not IN the mountains.
Current Problem - The problem is lately she has been loosing her appetite and barely drinking. Also the worst of the problem is that it looks like she has small yellow sore or something on her tongue which when that appeared she stopped using her tongue and the skin by her eyes sometimes off and on would swell and she would start sleeping more often. She has small scabs on her face too from rubbing he swollen parts occasionally. This all seemed to start happening in this last week or so. I'll try to upload a picture for the problem. I would love more then anything to just take her to a vet but we do not have a reptile vet anywhere out here. the only one on the whole island is 2 hours away. Also financaly I don't think we could afford it at the moment. This scares me I feel like a she is going to suffer or die on us.
Your Chameleon - Jackson Chameleon, Female, around 10-11 months old
How long has it been in your care? 8-9months
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? Besides when examing problem or giving water, only once every 3 days or longer.
Feeding - Was feeding crickets with vitamin powder about 4-7 medium size a day unless full. They were gut loaded with that cricket gel type stuff and given water in a sponge. This was all when she was healthy though, lately she won't eat crickets and was only eating meal worms. Last couple days not eating at all.
Supplements - Herp Care cricket dusting supplement
Watering - I use a dripper on the top of the cage with a cup that catches it on the bottom of the cage, I use the water in our kitchen or the water from our water bottles. This gets cleaned out and replaced each day. Misting was more frequent before but only about once a day now since she seems to get stressed and irritated by it.
Fecal Description - Seems normal brown color when ever she did eat sometimes little pieces of the incests in it.
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? Not that I recall.
History - She always crawled around a lot before, drank a good amount of water every few days, ate all her crickets and occasional meal worms (5-7 crickets & 2-4 worms) before she got sick. She was more lively and sassy before too and seemed to like coming out of her cage and chilling on my shirt.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen with sturdy plastic edges and easy clean bottom.
Lighting - We live in Hawaii temperature around a normal 79-84 during day which is when we let her sit on our patio in the sun (half of cage) for a few hours checking periodicly and leaving dripper going. Also on the colder days or clouding days when she can't be out we have a heating bulb by zoo med to keep her warm.
Temperature - Highest around 84 lowest around 75 unless using bulb.
Humidity - Not sure but we mist the cage each day.
Plants - Used fake plants with a few srings of a green dry air plant that fans out and she likes to hide under.
Placement - By our window (which sun cannot shine on since its under porch roof) level to our window hight.
Location - Hawaii closer to the mountains then the beaches so a little more elevated but not IN the mountains.
Current Problem - The problem is lately she has been loosing her appetite and barely drinking. Also the worst of the problem is that it looks like she has small yellow sore or something on her tongue which when that appeared she stopped using her tongue and the skin by her eyes sometimes off and on would swell and she would start sleeping more often. She has small scabs on her face too from rubbing he swollen parts occasionally. This all seemed to start happening in this last week or so. I'll try to upload a picture for the problem. I would love more then anything to just take her to a vet but we do not have a reptile vet anywhere out here. the only one on the whole island is 2 hours away. Also financaly I don't think we could afford it at the moment. This scares me I feel like a she is going to suffer or die on us.
