Hello there,
My name is Emiel and I am new to the forums! I'm 26 years old. I come from, and live in, Holland. Since english isn't my mother language I might use some strange words or won't be able to understand your replies. Please bare with me
I'm a chameleon owner since about 2 months. I started with a veiled chameleon whose name is "Stok" which is dutch for "Stick" (My little neice of 2 y.o. came up with the name) Now the enclosure of my veiled is a bit small 80cm x 50cm x 80cm which was okay for him when I just got him, but since he is growing rapidly I wanted a bigger cage for him. Thanks to a duch chameleon forum I came in contact with a person who had a bigger enclosure for sale. The only problem was, he had a chameleon in there of which he wasn't able to take good care of any longer. I took his chameleon under my care while he is preparing the enclosure for both chameleons to fit in. He will make a wall in between so the two will be seperated and don't stress eachother out.
Now since he hasn't been able to take good care of the nosy be called "Klaas", which is dutch for "Clause", Klaas has some health issues.
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Furcifer Pardalis, Nosy Be. Male. aproximately 3 y.o. I have it in my care for 4 days now.
Handling - Once to twice a day.
Feeding - Morioworms and crickets atm. He is hardly eating though. In the 4 days I've had him he ate about 4 worms and 1 fully grown cricket. I gutload my insects with vegetables, fruit, oats, homemade bread, seeds, etc.
Supplements - Calcium without d3 and reptivite, I plan to use calcium about 3 times a week and reptivite 1 times a week, with the other days no supplements.
Watering - I Mist 3 to 4 times a day, I have a dripper installed which drops a droplet every 5 seconds or so. I also (try to) let him drink from a pipette twice a day
Fecal Description - When I just got him, the white part was yellow/orange so I try to let him drink a lot to get rehydrated. The brown part is fairly fluid
History - The previous owner told me the UV-B lamp was broken for a while without him noticing which resulted in the cham getting humbs on his body.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage of which I have taped off 3 sides. (it's too cold and dry in holland to go full screen) it's about 90cm high 50 cm wide and 50cm deep. (Temporary solution)
Lighting - Exo terra 135w combination lamp 12 hours a day. Solar Rep 5.0 29w UV-B lamp 8 hours a day.
Temperature - Haven't been able to check this out yet.
Humidity - Haven't been able to check this out yet.
Plants - There is a ficus in there and some other small chameleon-friendly live plants to uphold the humidity. There are also quite some bamboo sticks on which he walks about.
Placement - It's placed on the floor in the corner of my room, about 1 meter above it is a small ventilation grid but i have my curtains hanging in front of it so he doesn't catch any draught
Location - Holland
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
The biggest problem is the Humbs he has and spots on his skin. I will add some foto's to show you what it looks like. The previous owner told me it is stacked up calcium but I (and the vet) believe it is an infection of some sort.
Also he's hardly eating (might be cause of stress from moving)
And he sometimes breaths a little heavy, like a sigh, he has this especially when drinking.
I hope someone knows how to get him better! He's such a sweet animal
My name is Emiel and I am new to the forums! I'm 26 years old. I come from, and live in, Holland. Since english isn't my mother language I might use some strange words or won't be able to understand your replies. Please bare with me
I'm a chameleon owner since about 2 months. I started with a veiled chameleon whose name is "Stok" which is dutch for "Stick" (My little neice of 2 y.o. came up with the name) Now the enclosure of my veiled is a bit small 80cm x 50cm x 80cm which was okay for him when I just got him, but since he is growing rapidly I wanted a bigger cage for him. Thanks to a duch chameleon forum I came in contact with a person who had a bigger enclosure for sale. The only problem was, he had a chameleon in there of which he wasn't able to take good care of any longer. I took his chameleon under my care while he is preparing the enclosure for both chameleons to fit in. He will make a wall in between so the two will be seperated and don't stress eachother out.
Now since he hasn't been able to take good care of the nosy be called "Klaas", which is dutch for "Clause", Klaas has some health issues.
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Furcifer Pardalis, Nosy Be. Male. aproximately 3 y.o. I have it in my care for 4 days now.
Handling - Once to twice a day.
Feeding - Morioworms and crickets atm. He is hardly eating though. In the 4 days I've had him he ate about 4 worms and 1 fully grown cricket. I gutload my insects with vegetables, fruit, oats, homemade bread, seeds, etc.
Supplements - Calcium without d3 and reptivite, I plan to use calcium about 3 times a week and reptivite 1 times a week, with the other days no supplements.
Watering - I Mist 3 to 4 times a day, I have a dripper installed which drops a droplet every 5 seconds or so. I also (try to) let him drink from a pipette twice a day
Fecal Description - When I just got him, the white part was yellow/orange so I try to let him drink a lot to get rehydrated. The brown part is fairly fluid
History - The previous owner told me the UV-B lamp was broken for a while without him noticing which resulted in the cham getting humbs on his body.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage of which I have taped off 3 sides. (it's too cold and dry in holland to go full screen) it's about 90cm high 50 cm wide and 50cm deep. (Temporary solution)
Lighting - Exo terra 135w combination lamp 12 hours a day. Solar Rep 5.0 29w UV-B lamp 8 hours a day.
Temperature - Haven't been able to check this out yet.
Humidity - Haven't been able to check this out yet.
Plants - There is a ficus in there and some other small chameleon-friendly live plants to uphold the humidity. There are also quite some bamboo sticks on which he walks about.
Placement - It's placed on the floor in the corner of my room, about 1 meter above it is a small ventilation grid but i have my curtains hanging in front of it so he doesn't catch any draught
Location - Holland
Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.
The biggest problem is the Humbs he has and spots on his skin. I will add some foto's to show you what it looks like. The previous owner told me it is stacked up calcium but I (and the vet) believe it is an infection of some sort.
Also he's hardly eating (might be cause of stress from moving)
And he sometimes breaths a little heavy, like a sigh, he has this especially when drinking.
I hope someone knows how to get him better! He's such a sweet animal
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