Please help!!! Again!!!

[pinkpanthers]

Ok so I posted on here before about my boy panther who unfortunately past. Very sad. But our local reptile store actually waited for my husband to show up because they were giving this beautiful female veiled. She has a stubby tail and the owners for what ever reasons did not want her and the reptile store thought we would be a perfect home. We are so happy to have her but our experiences is limited. I have a problem now I think she is egg bound but she is trying to lay the eggs. She diggs and diggs. She fell asleep in her hole today and my husband took her out and gave her a warm bath and when he did he ended up pulling these out. Does anyone know what this is. Is it sh%& or eggs or parasites.

 

[MissSkittles]

I have no idea what that is, but can you post some pics of her from different angles if possible?

 

[Sonny13]

They look like eggs that are “crushed”, where the moisture is pushed out and the shell sticks to each other.

 

[Beman]

Removing her from her hole and bathing her is something I would not recommend. You really do not ever want to put a chameleon into a water bath. Once they get their hole dug they will turn tail inside and head facing out to then start laying eggs. This may not start until the next day if the lights have gone off.

But with what you are showing in the pics. If her husbandry was wrong and she did not have the right supplements to calcify the eggs then she may have issues laying them because they may not come out fully formed.

Can you post pics of your female?

 

[kinyonga]

How did he happen to pull them out? Were they sticking out of her butt? They look like collapsed eggs to me.

 

[pinkpanthers]

Ok so we always bring them in at night and they lay in hammocks that are hung around the ceiling. But I guess these came out of her last night. Also my husband said she was pushinging her butt across his hand and it started coming out and he just touched it to stimulate the movement out ward and he was able to bring them out. She was like this when we got her and all the pet store said was that the owners couldn't keep up with how much she laid eggs. We got her like a week ago and had no clue she was Prego.

 

[pinkpanthers]

She is the sweetest chameleon I have met. She has no problems being handled and she comes to you right when she sees you. And she actually likes the water most of them try to get away from water by she keeps going straight for it and she will just stay under the running water. It's freaking weird. I will have to take a video

 

[pinkpanthers]

My husband believes that if he didn't help pull those out she wouldn't have gotten it on her own. To me it looks like he caught it at the right time like he pulled the plug. Because she was so slow and lethargic and now she is eating and climbing more. Her other owner probably didn't like that she laid bad eggs. Idk. But I'm glad she was able to get more out last night. Not being in a hole and up high she laid those. She was working on that all day in a hole and couldn't do it. Bless her.

 

[MissSkittles]

I’m glad she was able to get some out on her own, but am concerned that she may have more stuck inside. I don’t like the yellow color of a couple of those eggs…I’m limited in knowledge about follicular stasis, but she looks to have run out of calcium to form shells for those. Definitely a vet visit and having a X-ray done is my suggestion.

 

[kinyonga]

I’m concerned like @MissSkittles is, that there may be more deformed, collapsed eggs inside her and she may not get them out. Pulling them out worries me because they could pull out the reproductive parts when they come out because they are not smoothie like proper eggs would be.

A vet visit would be a good idea and she may need to be spayed. Hopefully an X-ray would tell. Make sure the vet is well experienced with chameleons.

 

[Camiezone]

How did things work out with this female? I will agree that a vet visit was a must, however I also believe that your husband did prob save her life by getting that plug out, she would definitely have gone eggbound n most likely passed away. I had a female do a similar thing once. They usually don't like water on them, but I did hold her while warm water slowly came down on her back area. She laid over 20 eggs in my hand. The first one was fused w the next egg sideways, so she couldn't push them out. She's still alive n well. I did take her to the vet n have xray just to be sure. She was fine. Got a shot of calcium.
I hope all worked out w yours, shes beautiful. N I'm glad you saved her from store.