Chamurt
New Member
Hello everyone,
I have a few questions in regards to the eye problems of my panther chameleon, Kratos. He's about 20 monthes old, and I have the required setup for a chameleon (reptisun 10.0 UVB lamp/ Heat lamp/ 100gal reptarium screen enclosure etc.)
Four days ago I noticed my chameleon was not opening his left eye, and he was basically resting all day. Since then problems have progressed and he occasionally opens his right eye and he commonly does a very strange blink in both eyes where it appears that the eyeball bulges to the front of the socket and he clears it away with some white thing and it returns to normal. He has also began to stop eating and I have had to force feed him a few crickets today. At first I thought the problem was dehydration so I allowed him to drink a significant amount of water but his problems still persisted.
I took him to the vet yesterday and they told me it could either be an infection or some other problem within his internals. The vet prescribed him 14 doses of Injectable Baytril which I feel will only stress him further and possibly cause new problems. He also and took a blood test, which I should get the results back sometime today.
I'm wondering if there is an alternate way to give him his medicine like possibly injecting the medicine into crickets and feeding it to him like that, or some kind of Vitamin A eye drops or anything!
I'm very nervous about Kratos's health, and I really hope he makes it through all this.
~Kurt
I have a few questions in regards to the eye problems of my panther chameleon, Kratos. He's about 20 monthes old, and I have the required setup for a chameleon (reptisun 10.0 UVB lamp/ Heat lamp/ 100gal reptarium screen enclosure etc.)
Four days ago I noticed my chameleon was not opening his left eye, and he was basically resting all day. Since then problems have progressed and he occasionally opens his right eye and he commonly does a very strange blink in both eyes where it appears that the eyeball bulges to the front of the socket and he clears it away with some white thing and it returns to normal. He has also began to stop eating and I have had to force feed him a few crickets today. At first I thought the problem was dehydration so I allowed him to drink a significant amount of water but his problems still persisted.
I took him to the vet yesterday and they told me it could either be an infection or some other problem within his internals. The vet prescribed him 14 doses of Injectable Baytril which I feel will only stress him further and possibly cause new problems. He also and took a blood test, which I should get the results back sometime today.
I'm wondering if there is an alternate way to give him his medicine like possibly injecting the medicine into crickets and feeding it to him like that, or some kind of Vitamin A eye drops or anything!
I'm very nervous about Kratos's health, and I really hope he makes it through all this.
~Kurt