HarleyGirl
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so what is that on his butt? i have seen a cham that died before and i am afraid to say i saw that skin out of the butt...is it really bad to see that? or maybe it was just a sperm plug?
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When was teh last time you took him to the vet? I mean before this problem? It isn't impossible for chameleons to get parasites from feeders that are NOT wild caught. Do you buy your feeders from a pet store? I'm asking this because one of my females got parasites from the crickets I got at a dirty local pet shop once. I know exactly what place it was because I went back right before I took her to the vet and got some more and ahd the vet check them. Sure enough they were carrying the exact same parasites. I had my vet call and inform the show owner that he should get a new cricket supplier/clean out his cricket enclosure and he banned me from the store because I was supposedly tring to "run his buisness into the ground" Even though I was just worried that other peoples pets, who don't know much if anything about parasites, were going to get ehm and die because of this cheap moron.
I do not know if this happens when every cham dies, as I've only been in the presence of one on it's deathbed, but when my old boss' cham was in his last day(like 4 hours before he died) he prolapsed and his "manhood" just hung out until he passed. He was just shy of 6 years and just couldn't handle the parasite treatment that he was going through in his old age. although the situation looks bleak anything is possible. Good luck.
Justin
Adult chameleons are better about feeding, but they still try to eat whenever there is food available. Keepers feed less as it makes them live longer. They usually know when they need water and will drink when they feel like it. Babies dont know when to stop eating and continue to eat as much as possible until they reach adulthood when they are less likely to be eaten by something.
Sometimes pet stores switch sources and get crickets/feeders from other places, which can sometimes lead to parasites.
If you're still having trouble with humidity, you can wrap a towel around the cage. Another trick I discovered is that if your cham is in a room near a bathroom with a shower, run the shower for a bit with the door open and the fan (if it has one) off. My bedroom is right next to the bathroom and for some bizarre reason, the bathroom does not have a fan. So I usually leave the door open a little to air the bathroom out when I take a shower. It raises the humidity a lot in my bedroom. I had to run out and buy a humidifier because 30% humidity was killing me and my chams and even with that it seems dry in here. Other ways I've been told to raise humidity is to boil a pot of water, but that won't help unless he's near the kitchen.
You could try giving him some pedialyte to see if that helps hydrate him, but I would maybe wait to see what the vet says. If the vet suggests it, they'll tell you exactly how much to give him. Good luck with your little guy!
The color can be any color they've shown before or even some you may not have noticed... Some people have a necropsy done to see what the cause was, others don't. I didn't, I just burried him. Though, I kind of wish I had given him to a vet to learn more about him.
My chameleon became weak the night before and was crawling on the bottom of his cage. I set up an appointment but he was too old/gone. He was almost 7 when he passed.