BrucenBruce
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Believe this guy to be an Ambilobe panther, though he was purchased as a female Nosy Be.
Handling - Rarely - when cleaning cages, or taking outside for sunshine & photography (Just once, a few days ago).
Feeding - Primarily crickets & supers, gutloaded with mixed dry ingredients, oranges, carrots, collards, dandelion greens, etc...
Supplements - Daily calcium cricket-dusting using ExoTerra plain calcium, Sunday dusting alternates between ReptiCal D-3 and Reptivite. Every now and again (1-2x/month) they get some Repashy "leopard gecko" or a mix my son uses for his bearded dragons, which includes things like probiotics as well as calcium/vitamins.
Watering - I run a "little dripper" each morning for the time it takes me to shower and dress, and hand-mist until the foliage is dripping each evening. The cham in question drinks well - I probably see this guy drinking more often than any other of my group.
Fecal Description - Dark brown feces, white urate - little bit of orange where the two meet.
History - Purchased at White Plains Expo in July, healthy since. Currently about 4-6? months old, if I had to guess.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - ReptiBreeze "large"; 18 x 18 x 36"
Lighting - Lights in a ZooMed double fixture, halogen basking light and ExoTerra 150 UVB, as well as a daylight tube in a separate fixture overhead.
Temperature - Cage floor: 73f, basking: 83f, measured today with a tempgun. Have been using a smaller bulb during the heat of summer, larger ones in reserve for cooler weather coming. NTL drops to ambient - about 65f during winter, but whatever it is outside overnight in summertime.
Humidity - Haven't got a way of measuring humidity at the moment - but with live plants (pothos) and papertowl substrate, along with morning drippage and afternoon misting (and southern New England summertime!) it probably varies from 50-90%.
Plants - Pothos in this cage.
Placement - Cage is in the living room, but for most of the day there's nobody home. Top of cage is just about 6.5 feet from the floor - I have to look up to see it, and I'm 6/2"
Location - Southwestern Connecticut, U.S.A.
Current Problem - He's lost most or all of his strength - and that's about the only symptom I can see. He seemed to have a slight eye infection about a week and a half ago, we administered some eyewash and antibiotic/antiprotozoal that my son had for his beardies, and the little guy seemed right as rain within a couple of days. Recently, I noticed that crickets were going uneaten, sleeping was ... odd - took him out to check, and he just seemed to have no grip. This morning, woke up to find him sleeping hanging by just his tail! His colors look good, he's looking about fairly alertly (though taking short naps through the day), but not able to move about well. Gave him some probiotic / vitamin / calcium / water mixture this morning (2x 2cc? I think?) which doesn't seem to be helping. Not sure when I can get him to a vet, as most of the next several days will be taken up with funeral stuff for my wife, who passed away on Wednesday.
My thanks in advance for any insights you may be able to offer . . .
~Bruce
Your Chameleon - Believe this guy to be an Ambilobe panther, though he was purchased as a female Nosy Be.
Handling - Rarely - when cleaning cages, or taking outside for sunshine & photography (Just once, a few days ago).
Feeding - Primarily crickets & supers, gutloaded with mixed dry ingredients, oranges, carrots, collards, dandelion greens, etc...
Supplements - Daily calcium cricket-dusting using ExoTerra plain calcium, Sunday dusting alternates between ReptiCal D-3 and Reptivite. Every now and again (1-2x/month) they get some Repashy "leopard gecko" or a mix my son uses for his bearded dragons, which includes things like probiotics as well as calcium/vitamins.
Watering - I run a "little dripper" each morning for the time it takes me to shower and dress, and hand-mist until the foliage is dripping each evening. The cham in question drinks well - I probably see this guy drinking more often than any other of my group.
Fecal Description - Dark brown feces, white urate - little bit of orange where the two meet.
History - Purchased at White Plains Expo in July, healthy since. Currently about 4-6? months old, if I had to guess.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - ReptiBreeze "large"; 18 x 18 x 36"
Lighting - Lights in a ZooMed double fixture, halogen basking light and ExoTerra 150 UVB, as well as a daylight tube in a separate fixture overhead.
Temperature - Cage floor: 73f, basking: 83f, measured today with a tempgun. Have been using a smaller bulb during the heat of summer, larger ones in reserve for cooler weather coming. NTL drops to ambient - about 65f during winter, but whatever it is outside overnight in summertime.
Humidity - Haven't got a way of measuring humidity at the moment - but with live plants (pothos) and papertowl substrate, along with morning drippage and afternoon misting (and southern New England summertime!) it probably varies from 50-90%.
Plants - Pothos in this cage.
Placement - Cage is in the living room, but for most of the day there's nobody home. Top of cage is just about 6.5 feet from the floor - I have to look up to see it, and I'm 6/2"
Location - Southwestern Connecticut, U.S.A.
Current Problem - He's lost most or all of his strength - and that's about the only symptom I can see. He seemed to have a slight eye infection about a week and a half ago, we administered some eyewash and antibiotic/antiprotozoal that my son had for his beardies, and the little guy seemed right as rain within a couple of days. Recently, I noticed that crickets were going uneaten, sleeping was ... odd - took him out to check, and he just seemed to have no grip. This morning, woke up to find him sleeping hanging by just his tail! His colors look good, he's looking about fairly alertly (though taking short naps through the day), but not able to move about well. Gave him some probiotic / vitamin / calcium / water mixture this morning (2x 2cc? I think?) which doesn't seem to be helping. Not sure when I can get him to a vet, as most of the next several days will be taken up with funeral stuff for my wife, who passed away on Wednesday.
My thanks in advance for any insights you may be able to offer . . .
~Bruce