quarintine
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Chameleons By Design
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Well the way we do it here is when the new arrivals come there placed in plain cages with minimal cage furniture. We feed and take stool samples to our vet who we work along side with closely. Once the stools come back we deworm appropriatly. We quarintine for about one month, once the months quarintine is over we will move them into general population. But we still keep close watch for an sudden changes for the worse.
Hope this will help you out just my two cents im a private breeder not an expert. Thanks
studiocham
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I set up my quarantines in a separate building.
The professional standard is three clean fecals- once they have three in a row over several weeks' time, they should be good to go. Allow 2 weeks minimum between fecal exams for parasites' life cycles. Some eggs may remain after the medication, and these need time to hatch and be killed as adults. However, some vets are not as versed in exotic parasites, and can give false clean results if they don't know how to look for certain oocysts. A really nasty one WC chams can get, easily contracted from contact with other reptile species' feces during importation/holding, is very difficult to find in a slide unless the technician is a specialist: Cryptosporidium.
It is wise to get 3 clean fecals from CBs, as well, because even well-kept animals can harbor low levels of parasites from farmed insect prey. Those low levels bloom and take over after the stress of shipping, new territory, new owner, different water...
The professional standard is three clean fecals- once they have three in a row over several weeks' time, they should be good to go. Allow 2 weeks minimum between fecal exams for parasites' life cycles. Some eggs may remain after the medication, and these need time to hatch and be killed as adults. However, some vets are not as versed in exotic parasites, and can give false clean results if they don't know how to look for certain oocysts. A really nasty one WC chams can get, easily contracted from contact with other reptile species' feces during importation/holding, is very difficult to find in a slide unless the technician is a specialist: Cryptosporidium.
It is wise to get 3 clean fecals from CBs, as well, because even well-kept animals can harbor low levels of parasites from farmed insect prey. Those low levels bloom and take over after the stress of shipping, new territory, new owner, different water...
