Popped up yesterday and don't know what it is...

[katrina]

Hello friends,

When I came home from work yesterday, I noticed a white-ish grey bump popped up near rectum area but more towards the side and base of tail.

Here's this:

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Jacksons chameleon, not sure of the sex, he's about a month old and I've had him for about three weeks.
Handling - I really only handle him transporting him from his terrarium to get some sunlight in the morning so tops 5-10 minutes a day.
Feeding - He's pretty tiny and was eating fruit flies, but when those ran out I got small and pinhead crickets that eat both Fluker's high-calcium cricket diet and orange cube cricket diet. I generally only see him eat one a day or every other day.
Supplements - Crickets are dusted with reticalcium from zoomed, and since he eats so infrequently, they are constantly dusted waiting for their doom in a small bowl in the middle of his terrarium.
Watering - My chameleon's terrarium is misted until everything is wet at least twice daily. He drinks very often.
Fecal Description - Not ever tested for parasites yet, but small and dark brown with a tiny white piece at the end.
History - Captive bred.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Glass terrarium 18x12x12
Lighting - Exo terra repti glo 5.0 and a 40 watt household light bulb for heat. 8 am on 8 pm off.
Temperature - Day time temps reach low 80s basking is right around 85. Night temps reach low 70s. These are measured with in cage thermometer.
Humidity - The meter in the cage reads between 60-70 and is maintained by live plants.
Plants - Impatiens for the sun
Placement - Cage is in my room near no fans or vents and reaches a height of about four feet off the ground.
Location - Central Florida

Current Problem - See pictures that follow

 

[Carlton]

I can't see much in your photos so can't really guess what this is. I'd suggest having a vet look at it. It could be an abscess/infection.

But, I do have some concerns about your husbandry and his appetite. He should be eating A LOT MORE every day, so something else is probably going wrong. Your feeder gutload could use some improvement. Add fresh dark leafy greens, fresh fruit to your feeder food. You need to be conservative with supplement dusts as jax are sensitive to overdoses. If your gutload is improved you don't need to rely on dusting for vitamin/mineral balance. Every month to 6 weeks you should dust lightly with a herp vitamin. If you could stop handling him every day it could reduce his stress and help his immune system to handle the possible infection. If he has exposure to the correct UV lighting indoors he won't need to be put outside every day. Or, instead of using the indoor UV light, when the temps are right you could leave him outside as long as he has a place to escape heat or drafts.