Vettechkdd
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Hey guys. I’m a vet tech for a practice that sees exotics. We get all the petco and petsmart. We recently had a chameleon dropped off who looks really bad. He came in at 23g, age unknown, I believe he may be a piebald veiled? Deformed jaw and arms from MBD. Missing a large portion of tail. Not eating. Poor shed. With prognosis poor, petco relinquished to me.
He’s currently in a 20gal glass tank (I don’t want him climbing and falling) with moss carpet and some artificial leaves and vines for climbing. UVB and heat lamp. My temp gun is at work but last I measured hot side is around 85 and cold side is about 72. Im misting throughout the day. Im feeding a liquid slurry of repashy grub pie, reptiboost, D3 and reptivit 2-3 times a day. Getting about 0.3mL in at a time. In a week he’s gone from 23g to 29g. He’s eliminated once and I ran a fecal that came back clear. I’ve been soaking in a warm water bath 2x a day to help with shed. Im also doing about 0.5-0.8mL subcutaneous fluids once a day. He received an injection of mixed vitamins and another injection of B before the long weekend.
Basically, the plan is to get weight and strength back and see if he’s able to live a relatively normal life. I have bugs that I keep for a Bioactive hedgehog enclosure so I’ve been offering mealworms but he’s yet to eat one. So just the mix slurry mentioned above.
Anything I’m missing? Or anything else I can be doing to help this lil guy?
He’s currently in a 20gal glass tank (I don’t want him climbing and falling) with moss carpet and some artificial leaves and vines for climbing. UVB and heat lamp. My temp gun is at work but last I measured hot side is around 85 and cold side is about 72. Im misting throughout the day. Im feeding a liquid slurry of repashy grub pie, reptiboost, D3 and reptivit 2-3 times a day. Getting about 0.3mL in at a time. In a week he’s gone from 23g to 29g. He’s eliminated once and I ran a fecal that came back clear. I’ve been soaking in a warm water bath 2x a day to help with shed. Im also doing about 0.5-0.8mL subcutaneous fluids once a day. He received an injection of mixed vitamins and another injection of B before the long weekend.
Basically, the plan is to get weight and strength back and see if he’s able to live a relatively normal life. I have bugs that I keep for a Bioactive hedgehog enclosure so I’ve been offering mealworms but he’s yet to eat one. So just the mix slurry mentioned above.
Anything I’m missing? Or anything else I can be doing to help this lil guy?