smells awful

[amart]

My chameleons are both eating regularly (crickets mostly and some superworms), with the right vitamins and calcium. They drink water all throughout the day. They're poop however smells like the inside of a rotton egg, to say the least. It's horrible. Its always brown with a bit of white at the end (which i hear is normal). Some days it's runnier than other days, but if i dont get the poop out of there right away, it'll stink up the whole room. Anyone have an suggestions as to why this is? or what i should do??

 

[camimom]

sounds like parasites.

normally cham poo doesnt smell.
when it does, it normally means parasites.


so fecal time!

 

[camimom]

and love the avatar pic, i just posted that in another thread a few days ago. hah.

 

[Action Jackson]

Mine too. My Chameleons seem to be very healthy. They have varied diet and lots of water but thier poo smells bad. I notice it mostly with my Parsons, not so much with the others. I would like to hear other people's input on the subject.

My chameleons are both eating regularly (crickets mostly and some superworms), with the right vitamins and calcium. They drink water all throughout the day. They're poop however smells like the inside of a rotton egg, to say the least. It's horrible. Its always brown with a bit of white at the end (which i hear is normal). Some days it's runnier than other days, but if i dont get the poop out of there right away, it'll stink up the whole room. Anyone have an suggestions as to why this is? or what i should do??

 

[amart]

haha its so freaking cute! And yeah i figured. Im taking stool samples in to the vet today actually. They are WC, so i figured having parasites would have something to do with the smell...i had to put 3 poop samples in 2 plastic bags and then wrapped it in foil, before i brought it in my car..it smells THAT bad! :X Thanks so much!

 

[camimom]

jeebus. yea id say its def parasites. and with them being wc.... im 94.3% positive!

lets us know how it goes!

 

[Solid Snake]

My jacksons poo doesnt smell at all really.
It has an odor if you directly whiff it(yes I inspect my chams poo from time to time) but no odor in the room whatsoever.
My panthers can be fairly smelly.
Still cant smell the odor in the room though. Ganted the windows are almost always open in there.
I thought maybe I had gotten used to it, but everyone Ive asked thats been in that room doesnt smell anything foul.

 

[chameleoman]

mine only smell up the room if there is poop on the bottom of the cage and i mist it it will stink up the whole room!!!! but ONLY when i mist it

 

[DekuScrub]

sounds like you guys need to start smoking.

and hmm ive never had issues with stinky poop.

probably the parasites as mentioned above only other thing i can think of is what you might be using in your gutload

 

[Solid Snake]

sounds like you guys need to start smoking.

and hmm ive never had issues with stinky poop.

probably the parasites as mentioned above only other thing i can think of is what you might be using in your gutload

I smoke constantly...