Reptile nutritional disorders...(not just chameleons)...

kinyonga

Chameleon Queen
Calcium and vitamin D3 deficiency..
"Calcium absorption is impaired in diets containing phytates (especially soy ingredients), oxalates (spinach), high fat (certain "performance" pet foods), or acid (certain commercial cat food. ), and in diets deficient in vitamin D"...
NSHP...
"Chameleons show tongue dysfunction when catching prey and a crunching stance (bell hugging) on perches (Figures 18-51 and 18-52). Veiled chameleons have a wrinkled and crooked casque develop"...

Vitamin A deficiency...
"Affected Veiled and Panther Chameleons show ocular lesions, respiratory dysfunction, spinal kinking, dysecdysis, and increased formation of hemipenal plugs. Affected Veiled and Panther Chameleons show ocular lesions, respiratory dysfunction, spinal kinking, dysecdysis, and increased formation of hemipenal plugs"...

https://ourreptileforum.com/community/threads/reptile-nutritional-disorders.3322/
 
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