Small smear of blood found in Yemens vent.

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?

Male Yemen (veiled), age 5 months? 2 months in care

Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?

4-5 times a week.

Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?

Crickets 5-7 a day, morning. Mealworms treats. Waxworms to curb dehydration. Raspheys superload, veggies, orange slices.

Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?

Calcium without d3 daily, Calcium with d3 and Herptivite evey other sunday.

Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?

Misting 4-5 times daily and dripper twice a day. Yes periodically although lately hes been dehydrated due to new move in cage. (One room to the other.)

Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?

Usually every morning 1-2 brown and 1 white. Today, 3 brown and 1 orange tip. The 3rd brown was oddly shaped. May be due to the recent mantis? Thought nothing of it and trashed it. Have not yet got to testing for parasite, recent vet visit and we forgot the sample at home :/

History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Last week had vet visit, he had a clean bill of health. Everything went fine, checked vent, mouth, bones, muscle and eye movement also did respiratory check.

Cage Info:

Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?

Screen, 2x2x2. Temporary cage, just moved him into what will become his free range spot so he isn't stressed once we have it completed.

Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?

18'' Reptisun 5.0 UVB, 75 watt basking lamp. 8AM on, 8 PM off. Also gets sun from window, opened periodically when supervised.

Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?

Basking spot 90, ambient 75-80. At night 65-70. Zoo Med stuck on temp gauge

Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?

30 to 60 working on better consistency, recently added live plants 2 Areca palms. Zoo Med stuck on humidity gauge.

Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?

Yes, 2 Areca palm

Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?

In front of a window, air vent is averted away, fan is on low for air flow. In my room, low traffic. Top of the cage 5 feet, his free range will be closer to 7-8 feet.

Location - Where are you geographically located? Tucson, Arizona.


Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

Very recently when applying final misting for the night, noticed small blood smears on his vent. His fecals didn't have any red, nor any red on the leaves of his cage. I will post pictures tomorrow, I would tonight but for some reason I can't get the attachment tool to work. Wondering if its anything to worry about, he isn't prolapsed his vent looks normal (to me anyway).

 

[Elizadolots]

Here are two possible explanations:

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blood-cage-82731/index2.html#post778183

A few years ago when I was breeding a pair of geckos I came back and found blood splattered across the walls of the tank. I mean, splattered, like at a murder crime scene, across and up the glass wall. I was sure someone had bitten the other, or something, but lo and behold they were both just fine. I was at the vet the next morning and nothing - their vents were fine, their mouths were fine, and nothing else out of the ordinary.

Come to find out from a few experienced breeder friends that they've had that happen with virgin males before. Instead of ejaculating semen they'll squirt blood instead, for reasons poorly understood. He was more than fine, and they ended up laying fertile eggs from the whole ordeal but for whatever reason he had ejaculated blood the first time.

So, I wonder if perhaps it's something like that with him. I'd like to think it was something like that instead of him having actually caught a hemipene on a sharp twig or something, but both are likely. Hopefully it's nothing serious.

The idea being maybe that your little boy is a man now and the first time he expressed his manhood was male virgin blood.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blood-cage-floor-87091/#post815634

The reason I asked the color is because you supplement with Repahsy Cal +. I've talked numerous people that thought their Cham was bleeding, but it turned out to be the Calcium Plus. That product has little red beads, that when wet on the cage floor, look like reddish/orange blood.

If it is in fact blood, I'm sure the other members can help you. I just wanted to throw that out there just in case.

If that's the Repashy formula you use, that might well be the answer.