ren.contreras3
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Hi so my chameleon, Mango, is a male veiled chameleon and he is about 14 months old and I noticed this brown-ish stain on his upper and lower teeth a few days ago. It looks darker on one half of his jaw as you can see in the photo. His jaw closes fully with no separations or misalignments and his appetite is good, so that makes me think that his teeth are healthy. I looked through the forums to see if anyone else had posted about the same problem and I saw a lot of conflicting replies. Some people said it was mouth rot and others said it was normal tooth staining. Can you guys let me know what you think it is?
What are signs of mouth rot that I should watch out for?
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What are signs of mouth rot that I should watch out for?
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- Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
- Male Veiled Chameleon, about a year and two months old, been in my care for a year
- Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
- Not too frequently, he’s pretty grumpy so my family and I really only take him out when we’re cleaning his enclosure
- Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
- A decent variety of insects that we order through the mail: Crickets, silkworms, dubia roaches, superworms, mealworms, hornworms, waxworms…
- He lives at my dad’s house so I’m not super sure about how often they feed him but I know he usually always has a few bugs in his “shooting gallery” or crawling around his enclosure.
- The feeders are fed a green gut load powder that our exotic vet recommended, but I can’t remember the name right now.
- Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
- Repti-Calcium with D3 every one to two weeks
- Rep-Cal Calcium two to three times a week
- Herptivite Multivitamin two to three times a week
- Rep-flashy Vitamin A once a week
- Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long do you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
- We manually mist two to three times a day for about five minutes and place a dripper over some plants (half are real and half are plastic) so that it trickles down. We see Mango drinking
- Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
- Feces looks normal and healthy: his urate is a light cream color and his droppings are not hard. He has never been tested for parasites.
- History - Any previous information about your chameleon that might be useful to others when trying to help you.
- Showed early signs of MBD about six months ago, we took him to the exotic vet and he gave a care plan to correct the vitamin deficiency and he’s better now.