New user: veiled chameleon has a strange blue spot?

[celinann]

Hi,
I found this site while looking on the internet for help with a strange spot that showed up on my veiled chameleon's arm recently. I'm going to follow the outline for asking for help:
Chameleon info
- I got him last June and he hasn't had any problems eating, drinking, or climbing around. I believe he is nearing two years of age.
- I'd say I handle him about once every week or two just for a couple minutes. He is pretty tame, but like most chameleons I'd say he prefers to be safe in his cage.
-I feed him about every other day: several large crickets and a few superworms. Sometimes I feed him one or two superworms on the off days if he's looking hungry. I feed the insects the Fluker's insect food that looks kind of like sawdust. I supplement two or three of the crickets each feeding with ReptiCal + Vitamin D.
-He drinks well. I put water in the dripper for him, but I also spray him for about ten minutes twice a day until he starts drinking and gets a good amount.
-His feces as far as I can tell are pretty normal. Firm feces with white to light yellow urates. In the time I've had him I haven't taken him to the vet yet and he has not been checked for parasites.
-I live at school in a dorm for most of the year so he comes back and forth with me when I am on vacation. He travels in a box and doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Cage info
-He lives in a screen enclosure about 2ft x 2ft x 3.5ft. Currently I am at home so he's out in our enclosed front porch with a space heater so it is a suitable temperature for him.
-He has a ReptiGlo 10.0 on for 12 hours each day and a red heat lamp on all the time.
-He has two live plants in his cage, I forget the exact types but I made sure they were suitable before putting them in.
-Right now I don't have any way of measuring the heat or humidity, to be honest -- my laser thermometer was left at school by accident. It's about 75-80 degrees in the room, and around his heat lamp it's more like 90 degrees.
I haven't picked up a hygrometer yet.

THE PROBLEM:
Recently he developed a spot on his forearm that looks kind of like someone spilled ink on him -- transparent and blue. At first I thought it might be a bruise, as he loves to climb on the screen of his cage in the morning and sometimes falls, but it doesn't seem to be going away and it's been about a week. If someone could let me know what this is and what I should do about it I'd be so grateful. I've included a few pictures of him and a close up of the spot. Thanks!
P.S.
I'm not sure why the one picture became rotated...sorry.

 

[jojackson]

Bluespot may be just a bruise or the emergence of natural coloration, cant say for sure.
Please include information regards calcium intake/supplimentation since you say "I supplement two or three of the crickets each feeding with ReptiCal + Vitamin D.", this may not be sufficient.
Your lizards front limbs are disturbingly rounded, or atleast appear to be.
Rounded limbs, are often a classic indicater of calcium deficiency, which left untended may develop into metabolic bone disease.
A tendency to fall while climbing might indicate the limbs are weakening.
Either visit a vet to eliminate this diagnosis, and/or have it treated and follow a schedule of regular supplimentation.
Please ensure your reptisun 10 is no more than 6-8 months old, after this time its uvb output becomes comprimised and no longer sufficient strength.
UV light is needed by the lizard to metabolise its calcium intake.
A little more dietry variety wont go astray either, too many supers may not be good.
Gutloading the feeders with fresh leafy veges will enhance your lizards vit & min uptake and provide more natural calcium.

Your heat source does not bneed to run 24/7 unless its really cool at night where its kept, i.e. below 60 f or so. A natural night time temperature drop is experienced by the lizard in the wild and is important to its health.

 

[jannb]

Bluespot may be just a bruise or the emergence of natural coloration, cant say for sure.
Please include information regards calcium intake/supplimentation since you say "I supplement two or three of the crickets each feeding with ReptiCal + Vitamin D.", this may not be sufficient.
Your lizards front limbs are disturbingly rounded, or atleast appear to be.
Rounded limbs, are often a classic indicater of calcium deficiency, which left untended may develop into metabolic bone disease.
A tendency to fall while climbing might indicate the limbs are weakening.
Either visit a vet to eliminate this diagnosis, and/or have it treated and follow a schedule of regular supplimentation.
Please ensure your reptisun 10 is no more than 6-8 months old, after this time its uvb output becomes comprimised and no longer sufficient strength.
UV light is needed by the lizard to metabolise its calcium intake.
A little more dietry variety wont go astray either, too many supers may not be good.
Gutloading the feeders with fresh leafy veges will enhance your lizards vit & min uptake and provide more natural calcium.

Your heat source does not bneed to run 24/7 unless its really cool at night where its kept, i.e. below 60 f or so. A natural night time temperature drop is experienced by the lizard in the wild and is important to its health.

I agree. Your little guys needs 3 different supplements. Calcium without D3 at almost every feeding. Calcium with D3 twice a month and a multi vit. twice a month. I would recommend a vet visit. If he does have MBD he will need liquid calcium and injections to draw the calcium to the bone.

 

[gaxmode]

Also flukers gutload is no good.... Go to the sponsors page and buy some cricket crack from tikitiki reptiles... its a great dry gutload. Then offer some apples/oranges/greens as well for moisture.

 

[Itwas]

It looks similar to a mark my veiled had on his belly a few days ago, I was worried he had burnt himself but I think it was just a bruise as it faded a few days later.

I would also suggest swapping the red heat light for a ceramic heater as chams prefer darkness to sleep so no light at all is preferred.