Pygmy chameleon and veggies

[sperpich]

My vet told me that my pygmy chameleons should be eating veggies, is this true? If so, what kind and how do I get them to eat it?

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

Haha, no. They do not eat veggies. The only species that will consistenly set veggies is veileds. My pygs have never once tried to munch on any of their plants.

 

[ChameleonsInMyHouse]

it would be cute, lol - but what ferret said, no they dont. they wont even eat plant life in their viv. (a great reason why we can pretty pygmy tanks up with more colorful and a variety of foliage

 

[sperpich]

pygmy and veggies

She has an eye issue. She keeps it closed most of the time and she has dried tear stains around her eye slit. The vet said she lacks vitamin A and I should feed baby food (veggies) to help. Does any of that sound right?

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

You won't be able to force a Pygmy to eat anything without inducing so much stress that you may cause worse issues. What are you feeding the pyg and what are you gutloading with? If it's only one eye affected vitamin deficiency seems less likely because that would be a systemic problem and would affect both eyes. Good time to look at gutloading practices though. I would increase the humidity and mistings and try to help her flush out that eye with water by misting it directly and see how she does. No handling required for that.

 

[sperpich]

Feeding the crickets Fluker's orange cube complete cricket diet and also give them carrots. Dust them with rep-cal calcium with D3 twice a week and rep-cal herptivite multivitamin twice a week. Feeding them every other day with crickets, roaches, house flies.

We've been flushing the eye once daily by misting for a bit directly on her. We've wiped it very gently with q-tips when there is build up. Today is day 7 since we've noticed and been working on it and she does keep it open now and even started using it again. Definitely not back to 100% but going in the right direction it appears. It looks like its dry when I look at it.