small fast moving bug on my pygmy!

[Sarah B]

it was about the size of a fruit fly, maybe smaller, light brown, fast moving and one was crawling all over him!!

Is it a mite or what could it be?

HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?!

 

[kinyonga]

Did it move with a jerky motion?

 

[Sarah B]

it was more of a smooth motion, running along the course of his body..not zig zagging or twitching or anything like that, just running along real fast. It was really small.

 

[Sarah B]

My boss told me chameleons usually don't get mites. I think it may have been some sort of fruit fly. I didn't see it on him today when I took him out. He's having trouble keeping his eyes open too. I took pics. He's also still really thin, but not weak or anything it just worries me that he is not eating. In the one pic he doesn't look thin as he is because he was puffing up at me.

In the second pic his eyes are fully open because I used a warm damp cotton swab to *gently* wipe around his eye