Quick anorexia, sleeping

wjenceslaw

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Hello,

I have two years old Furcifer Pardalis Ambilobe female since the breeder was not able to say it's a boy or girl. I'm feeding her usually by crickets in Zoomed Repti Calcium with D3 with mix of Roboran for reptiles vitamines every day. Her apetite is around 5-10 crickets per day. Water supply every day in the morning. Lights goes on at 6am and goes out at 7pm. I'm living in Czech Rep., Europe. She's drinking every day. During this summer she layed eggs twice (it was her first time) - if she was gravid - I don't know - I put them together with the male several times but none of them were about to like each other. He was acting like she's not there and she was always turning black and hissing. I'm using Arcadia D3 Forest Reptile Lamp 6.0 UVB T8, Arcadia Halogen Sun Basking Spot 50W, Basic 9W LED bulb natural daylight color for more light. + 10W night sky blue light. Her droppings are normal whole her life. She was always watching around, almost running in the terrarium (50x35x100cm ~ 1,6x1.2x3.3ft), perhabs looking for a male, never slept at the daytime. I don't use live plants - there was always too much dry for them and needed the Sunlight. No vents in the room. I'm opening the window twice a week (very high ceiling). Temperature inside the terrarium is at night 20-24°C ~ 68-75°F, at daytime 30-35°C ~ 86-96°F. I have one more Pardalis male in another terrarium with the same conditions (1.5 year old) and in another terrarium one male Calyptratus, 3 years old.

Last 10 days she doesn't want to eat, only drinks, looks like anorexia, no coordination problems seen, eyes partly closed when moving, now she's sleeping more than half of the day. Last two days I had to open her mouth to get some small crickets to her. It's going to be almost 11 months I didn't replace the UVB tube.

Do you have any ideas what can cause this please? Thanks for any help.
 

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Her sunken eye turrents is a sign of intense dehydration. She needs to see a vet asap. Could possibly have parasites too if she can't keep weight on. I would also change the uvb bulb. It is recommended to do so every 6 months. Hope she recovers quickly
 
Try mist her
Hello,

I have two years old Furcifer Pardalis Ambilobe female since the breeder was not able to say it's a boy or girl. I'm feeding her usually by crickets in Zoomed Repti Calcium with D3 with mix of Roboran for reptiles vitamines every day. Her apetite is around 5-10 crickets per day. Water supply every day in the morning. Lights goes on at 6am and goes out at 7pm. I'm living in Czech Rep., Europe. She's drinking every day. During this summer she layed eggs twice (it was her first time) - if she was gravid - I don't know - I put them together with the male several times but none of them were about to like each other. He was acting like she's not there and she was always turning black and hissing. I'm using Arcadia D3 Forest Reptile Lamp 6.0 UVB T8, Arcadia Halogen Sun Basking Spot 50W, Basic 9W LED bulb natural daylight color for more light. + 10W night sky blue light. Her droppings are normal whole her life. She was always watching around, almost running in the terrarium (50x35x100cm ~ 1,6x1.2x3.3ft), perhabs looking for a male, never slept at the daytime. I don't use live plants - there was always too much dry for them and needed the Sunlight. No vents in the room. I'm opening the window twice a week (very high ceiling). Temperature inside the terrarium is at night 20-24°C ~ 68-75°F, at daytime 30-35°C ~ 86-96°F. I have one more Pardalis male in another terrarium with the same conditions (1.5 year old) and in another terrarium one male Calyptratus, 3 years old.

Last 10 days she doesn't want to eat, only drinks, looks like anorexia, no coordination problems seen, eyes partly closed when moving, now she's sleeping more than half of the day. Last two days I had to open her mouth to get some small crickets to her. It's going to be almost 11 months I didn't replace the UVB tube.

Do you have any ideas what can cause this please? Thanks for any help.

Try mist her with lukewarm water or even shower,gradually dropping her enclosure temperature to about 80F to 85F(86-96F is way too hot for a female), if you still don't see her improving, take her to to vet right away....yup...yup
 
She looks severely dehydrated and emaciated. This has been going on for awhile. She needs a vet visit asap, but she used in very poor condition.

Is she wild caught? Had she been tested for parasites?

I think your temperatures are too high during the day, especially if you are using a glass terrarium. 96F with not enough airflow might be overheating her.
 
She does not look good we had a chameleon that had issues from day one and looked like that just before she died sorry it sucks good luck tho
 
That isn't something that happend over 10 days, that has been going on for a longer time since she looks so bad. I am very upset by op but I'll keep myself together. I would like to see how the other two chameleons look tho
 
Thank you for all advices. Our little female turned black and died about 24 hours ago. I replaced the UVB tube on Monday, tried to mist her twice - it woke her up and made her to drink.

Crashbandit05: I knew that sunken eye is a sign of dehydration, but I've read somewhere that parasites can make an animal to drink too much - which was probably this issue.

Lathis: No, she was born at a local breeder's farm

GrimCamel: Two and a half weeks ago I bought a box of grass hoppers and she was able to eat 6 of them in less than 10 minutes and in that time she really looked well. I'm sorry but I was asking for some help here speaking true and I had no reason to lie about how fast this happend.

When I decided to buy my first chameleon (Calyptratus) in December 2013 - I bought him from a breeder and as almost every newbie who had his first lizzard I hadn't read much about the vitamines. The breeder gave me "vitamines for young calyptratuses" that unfortunately hasn't contained calcium. So after half a year he started to fall down off the twigs and when I got him at the vets, he told me this basic terrible info that he has 3 legs broken and almost no calcium in his body. He got calcium by injection and I bought Arcadia basking lamp + Calcium from Zoomed's. From this time he's not climbing higher than 1ft. Because of the falls he has corrupted nerves in spine (Vet said) so his movement coordinations are not good to high climbing. But he has a great apetite and is almost always colored in light green to yellow. I'll make some photos of him if you want.

In June 2014 I bought this Panther girl which seemed to be healthy until now. I wanted to try to make her to mate so in January 2015 I bought a Panther male.

I haven't taken photos of my chams recently so I'm attaching some photos of our male (youngest) from Semptember. I'll post some new photos during a weekend.

Thank you again for all replies.
 

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