JaclynCali
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Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Panther, male, 8 months old, and he's been in my care since he was 3 months.
Handling - Usually every other day to take him outside to sunbathe.
Feeding - He eats crickets, hornworms, silkies, dubias, and gets giant meal worms twice a wk as a treat. He usually eats 5-6 med crickets along with 2-3 hornworms a day. He hasn't wanted dubias for a wk or so but I usually switch off from crickets to dubias. He eats every morning about an hr after he's been awake and misted. I gut-load with bug burger, fruits, and veggies (papaya, apples, carrots, spinach, collard greens, dandelion greens, and kale.
Supplements - I dust with Repashy's cal/ vit plus supplement every feeding.
Watering - I have a dripper going 12 hrs a day. He gets misted all throughout the day (usually every other hr for 2 mins straight). I see him drink every day off the leaf his dripper drips on.
Fecal Description - His stool looks normal and his urates are white but do have a tiny bit of yellow in it. He hasn't been tested for parasites.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage, 24x24x48
Lighting - 50w exto terra daylight basking bulb and I recently just switched the UVB bulb from zoomed's 5.0 to the Arcadia T5. Lights on from 7am-6pm.
Temperature - His basking spot stays between 85-88 degrees. The ambient temp stays around 75 and drops to 70 at night. I have 2 digital thermometers in his cage, one sits to the right of his basking and the other is at the bottom of his cage.
Humidity - Usually stays around 75 and drops down to 50 all throughout the day.
Plants - There is a Pothos, Croton, Umbrella, and Ficus in his cage.
Placement - My chams have their own room, away from the vent/high traffic, and the cage is about 3ft off the floor.
Location - Arizona (an hr out of Vegas)
Current Problem - So I posted about Remi's eye problem over a month ago (https://www.chameleonforums.com/eye-problem-please-help-117461/) and he is still not showing any signs of improvement. He's still rubbing his eye on the branches in his cage and today while I was holding him, he started rubbing both eyes against my hand. The vet I took him to here in town didn't know very much about chameleons and put him on baytril for 10 days and that did nothing. I've been continuing to give him 2 small doses of liquid vit A twice a week but his eye continues to bother him and still has a slight droop to it. I took him to a herp vet in Vegas a week and half ago and she said it could be anything from vit a, to his uvb light bothering him, or maybe he has something in it. She put dye in his eye to see if maybe he had an ulcer but nothing showed up so she sent me home with terramycin and told me to try that for a week and see if it helps. Other than that she said my husbandry was great and that Remi looked beautiful and very healthy..
It's been over a week now and still nothing changed except for now he is trying to go to sleep around 3 instead of 6, when his lights go off. He's also not basking as much as he usually does but his appetite is still great. Today I had to wake him up and put him under his light because he was black and sleeping at 1:30pm I feel SO helpless and frustrated. I hope I can figure this out soon!
Your Chameleon - Panther, male, 8 months old, and he's been in my care since he was 3 months.
Handling - Usually every other day to take him outside to sunbathe.
Feeding - He eats crickets, hornworms, silkies, dubias, and gets giant meal worms twice a wk as a treat. He usually eats 5-6 med crickets along with 2-3 hornworms a day. He hasn't wanted dubias for a wk or so but I usually switch off from crickets to dubias. He eats every morning about an hr after he's been awake and misted. I gut-load with bug burger, fruits, and veggies (papaya, apples, carrots, spinach, collard greens, dandelion greens, and kale.
Supplements - I dust with Repashy's cal/ vit plus supplement every feeding.
Watering - I have a dripper going 12 hrs a day. He gets misted all throughout the day (usually every other hr for 2 mins straight). I see him drink every day off the leaf his dripper drips on.
Fecal Description - His stool looks normal and his urates are white but do have a tiny bit of yellow in it. He hasn't been tested for parasites.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen cage, 24x24x48
Lighting - 50w exto terra daylight basking bulb and I recently just switched the UVB bulb from zoomed's 5.0 to the Arcadia T5. Lights on from 7am-6pm.
Temperature - His basking spot stays between 85-88 degrees. The ambient temp stays around 75 and drops to 70 at night. I have 2 digital thermometers in his cage, one sits to the right of his basking and the other is at the bottom of his cage.
Humidity - Usually stays around 75 and drops down to 50 all throughout the day.
Plants - There is a Pothos, Croton, Umbrella, and Ficus in his cage.
Placement - My chams have their own room, away from the vent/high traffic, and the cage is about 3ft off the floor.
Location - Arizona (an hr out of Vegas)
Current Problem - So I posted about Remi's eye problem over a month ago (https://www.chameleonforums.com/eye-problem-please-help-117461/) and he is still not showing any signs of improvement. He's still rubbing his eye on the branches in his cage and today while I was holding him, he started rubbing both eyes against my hand. The vet I took him to here in town didn't know very much about chameleons and put him on baytril for 10 days and that did nothing. I've been continuing to give him 2 small doses of liquid vit A twice a week but his eye continues to bother him and still has a slight droop to it. I took him to a herp vet in Vegas a week and half ago and she said it could be anything from vit a, to his uvb light bothering him, or maybe he has something in it. She put dye in his eye to see if maybe he had an ulcer but nothing showed up so she sent me home with terramycin and told me to try that for a week and see if it helps. Other than that she said my husbandry was great and that Remi looked beautiful and very healthy..
It's been over a week now and still nothing changed except for now he is trying to go to sleep around 3 instead of 6, when his lights go off. He's also not basking as much as he usually does but his appetite is still great. Today I had to wake him up and put him under his light because he was black and sleeping at 1:30pm I feel SO helpless and frustrated. I hope I can figure this out soon!