small shiny black spot on my veiled? o.O

[PicassoTheVeiled]

so the other day, my veiled was shedding on his shoulder a little... when the skin fell off, there was a blackish spot on him. it is shiny and i cant figure out why... i mist him regularly and he has a dripper and i give him humid showers sometimes... the spot is about 1/4" x 1/4" and its pretty dark, then around that, there is an area of non shiny dark skin that does have some color, but its also dark... what could this be? it almost looks like it could be a scab or something but the shedding skin didnt look odd or anthing. its a very defined black shiny patch. could this possibly be a burn of some sort? he does like to get fairly close to the heat lamp that sits ontop of the cage

again, for anyone who doesnt know me and picasso, he is my first cham, but is also a rescue. i am currently cleaning up the mess the previous owner left me with. i dont know everything about them but i have been researching and learning as much as possible... this is all new to me and id love to get him back to full health so i can finally enjoy him. he has been on 2 antibiotics and is currently on 1 other in the time ive had him to fix an eye issue which is still being sorted out... so im assuming that its probably not a bacterial thing because odds are, one of those antibiotics would have helped it. it showed up all the sudden when the dead skin flaked off, seems like over night... if it is a burn, what should i do to treat it? i have moved his vine further away from the lamp just in case.

 

[gpmo]

With out pictures its hard to say. But my immediate thought would be a burn. Could ya get some pics by chance?

Gpmo (him)

 

[Elizadolots]

PTV, I think I'd move the lamp back a bit. I'd get some neosporin or other "antibiotic" ointment and dab that on the spot. Note that from what others have posted here, the antibiotic ointment should not contain painkillers....I don't know the reason for that, but those who've said it are people I think have great credibility, so I mention it.

I do have to tell you something: a huge part of enjoying your chameleon is worrying yourself silly over him/her...

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

I do have to tell you something: a huge part of enjoying your chameleon is worrying yourself silly over him/her...

tell me about it!!!!! ^^^^^^ especially being a new cham keeper makes me even more paranoid!

anyway, i will put a pic up when i can figure out how... if anyone would like to give a quick tutorial, it would be much appreciated if not, ill try to figure it out real quick

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

oh, hold on, i may have figured it out.... please hold ..... pic comming soon (hopefully)

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

https://www.chameleonforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=21906&stc=1&d=1271729693
did this work?
EDIT: HOORAY! i did it lol.... anyway, sorry its not the best pic... he wasnt in the mood lol, and he was upside down in his pothos which was shading the light... but anyway its on his shoulder and is very black, its very defined but there is some darker area around it, but the black part is pretty defined like someone put an oddly shaped lit cigarette on him (NO ONE DID! but thats the only way i can explain it)

 

[CHAMaDdIcT]

it could be a burn, but wouldnt a burn affect a larger area on his skin? and if it was while he was shedding it wouldnt have burned his new skin

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

oh god. *sigh* I JUST WANT TO START ENJOYING HIM!!!! i know im doing almost everything right now. what gives?!?!

any other ideas guys?

 

[Elizadolots]

honey...you are enjoying him...you just need to think about your definition of "enjoyment"...I consider chameleons good trainers for parenting a teenager..they hate you but are utterly dependent on you and you have no clue what the "signs" mean...

To be honest, it doesn't look like a burn to me, it looks like natural coloration, but wait for those more experienced with veileds. If in doubt, neosporin is not toxic so why not dab it on the area? Consider it a bonding experience.

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

hahahaha it does kinda seem similar to raising a teen... i dont have one... but i was one once and i was a total pain lol anyway, youre right, i am enjoying him... while trying to keep myself from pulling my hair out lol... i just put some neosporin on him, he didnt always have this spot. and its shiny almost like a scab unlike the rest of his skin... we will see what happens... man, i didnt realize how much of a train wreck this little guy was... but hes gotta be a pretty tough lil guy to have lived this long with the other person hahaha

 

[QuioteCham]

I've seen this before on rescued veiled I helped with. Crix kept attacking him at night and actually bit at him. The cham went into its usual shed and had a shiny spot afterwards. It turned out it was a tiny little healing scab/almost scar from where his crick "ouchy" was. It went away completely by the next time he shed. Im not saying you dump too many crix in there or anything, but there might just be one big jerk crick in there causing issues, or possibly a pointed area he got poked on youre not noticing.

 

[PicassoTheVeiled]

I've seen this before on rescued veiled I helped with. Crix kept attacking him at night and actually bit at him. The cham went into its usual shed and had a shiny spot afterwards. It turned out it was a tiny little healing scab/almost scar from where his crick "ouchy" was. It went away completely by the next time he shed. Im not saying you dump too many crix in there or anything, but there might just be one big jerk crick in there causing issues, or possibly a pointed area he got poked on youre not noticing.

i usually put about 4 crickets in there at a time. the crickets do seem to disappear, but ive never once seen him eat... there was a small gap in the cage and some crickets were getting out so i closed it up. i dont see any crickets crawling on the carpet any more but i also dont see him eating them... anyway since he is having some medical issues because of his previous owner, his med makes him not hungry. im having to hand feed him, but i dont want him to completely rely on me opening his mouth with a credit card and putting food in his mouth so i let about 4 crawl around at a time. im kinda baffled with it, if it were a cricket bite, i would assume it would be smaller, its about a quarter inch in diameter.... wierd. well, ill try removing the crickets until hes feeling better and has more of an appetite, maybe youre right, because they do stay in there for a couple days at a time

 

[camshaft]

Try putting some food in there for the crickets. They'd much rather munch on something yummy than a cham.