Hi, new here, sorry I had to end up here looking for answers to a problem.
I have a female veiled that should be close to the end of her lifespan. She has developed what looks like a pimple on the side of her lip. It's growing and seems to be filled with puss with a hard spiky head in the middle. Anyone ever seen this and can tell me what to do? I will try to get a pic after this is posted. She let me poke at it once, and it seemed to tough for my to rupture without ripping off her lip, so I leave it alone. I emailed Jim Flaherty@The Chameleon Company and neither him nor his vet had any clue or advice. This cham is way over three years old according to the former owner, I've had her for three and was told by them that she was already 2 years old, this contradicts everything I've read about female veileds, anyway I'm not sure taking her to a vet is in order here due to her age.
I "rescued" her from the prior owners poor care, she was in very small makeshift screen enclosure (1x2, if that), no light (on a back porch in ambient FL sunlight), was only fed a few times a week, never misted but given ice cubes for drip. Never the less, she seemed healthy when I received her, no signs of MBD, although she has never been very good at using her tongue. She has since lived in a 3x4 screen enclosure with daily mists, approx 65% humidity, live pothos and numerous fake plants, driftwood, a heat lamp keeping the top of the cage in the upper 90s and middle where she hangs out in the 80s, also a reptisun 10.0. Gutloaded crickets, mealworms, and occasional butter worms, dusted every other feeding with Rep-cal calcium+D and herptivite, fed no more than 3 insects a day. She has seemed lively and healthy the entire time other than poor tongue action and the recent bump on her lip.
Please let me know if there is anything you see that I'm doing wrong or should change or add. As much as I am in fish forums, it never occurred to me until now to search for chameleon forums, before that it was very difficult to find good info.
-Jaide
I have a female veiled that should be close to the end of her lifespan. She has developed what looks like a pimple on the side of her lip. It's growing and seems to be filled with puss with a hard spiky head in the middle. Anyone ever seen this and can tell me what to do? I will try to get a pic after this is posted. She let me poke at it once, and it seemed to tough for my to rupture without ripping off her lip, so I leave it alone. I emailed Jim Flaherty@The Chameleon Company and neither him nor his vet had any clue or advice. This cham is way over three years old according to the former owner, I've had her for three and was told by them that she was already 2 years old, this contradicts everything I've read about female veileds, anyway I'm not sure taking her to a vet is in order here due to her age.
I "rescued" her from the prior owners poor care, she was in very small makeshift screen enclosure (1x2, if that), no light (on a back porch in ambient FL sunlight), was only fed a few times a week, never misted but given ice cubes for drip. Never the less, she seemed healthy when I received her, no signs of MBD, although she has never been very good at using her tongue. She has since lived in a 3x4 screen enclosure with daily mists, approx 65% humidity, live pothos and numerous fake plants, driftwood, a heat lamp keeping the top of the cage in the upper 90s and middle where she hangs out in the 80s, also a reptisun 10.0. Gutloaded crickets, mealworms, and occasional butter worms, dusted every other feeding with Rep-cal calcium+D and herptivite, fed no more than 3 insects a day. She has seemed lively and healthy the entire time other than poor tongue action and the recent bump on her lip.
Please let me know if there is anything you see that I'm doing wrong or should change or add. As much as I am in fish forums, it never occurred to me until now to search for chameleon forums, before that it was very difficult to find good info.
-Jaide