tamarasimovic
New Member
Hey,
Since i am now out of ideas of what to do with my little boy (panther chameleon) i hope you guys can help. He is now around 7 months old.
For the past 10-14 days he has been having trouble shooting his tounge and it has been getting worse. I have now been to the vet twice but he has no more ideas on what it could be. The first time he checked his tounge for possible injuries, but found none. We checked for infections but found none. He gave him an anti pain injection just in case. Things did not get better. At first he just couldn't shoot as far, but now he has trouble eating crickets that are 2centimeters away.
It seems as if his tounge just isn't shooting out, but also isn't as sticky as it should be.
Since it is not trauma or an infection i now suspect vitamin inbalance.
Is it possible that i have been over suplementing him and that this is now the problem?
By my vets advice i use Nekton MSA and Nekton rep color. I use Nekton MSA about twice a week and Nekton rep color about once a week. I used the same amount of vitamins in my older chams and they are great. Is it possible that this is too much or too little for him?
As lighting goes, i use Exo terra 5.0 and 2.0.
I saw a post here suggesting i use vitamin B complex to try to fix the issue and i started giving him vitamin B complex dissolved in water yesterday.
He mostly eats crickets which i gutload with dandelion greens, apples, some carrots, ...
Besides the tounge issue he is acting normally, climbs all the time, is not dehydrathed and has appetite.
Please give me ideas on what it could be, since my vet says he everything seems to be okay and we have no more ideas on what to check.
Since i am now out of ideas of what to do with my little boy (panther chameleon) i hope you guys can help. He is now around 7 months old.
For the past 10-14 days he has been having trouble shooting his tounge and it has been getting worse. I have now been to the vet twice but he has no more ideas on what it could be. The first time he checked his tounge for possible injuries, but found none. We checked for infections but found none. He gave him an anti pain injection just in case. Things did not get better. At first he just couldn't shoot as far, but now he has trouble eating crickets that are 2centimeters away.
It seems as if his tounge just isn't shooting out, but also isn't as sticky as it should be.
Since it is not trauma or an infection i now suspect vitamin inbalance.
Is it possible that i have been over suplementing him and that this is now the problem?
By my vets advice i use Nekton MSA and Nekton rep color. I use Nekton MSA about twice a week and Nekton rep color about once a week. I used the same amount of vitamins in my older chams and they are great. Is it possible that this is too much or too little for him?
As lighting goes, i use Exo terra 5.0 and 2.0.
I saw a post here suggesting i use vitamin B complex to try to fix the issue and i started giving him vitamin B complex dissolved in water yesterday.
He mostly eats crickets which i gutload with dandelion greens, apples, some carrots, ...
Besides the tounge issue he is acting normally, climbs all the time, is not dehydrathed and has appetite.
Please give me ideas on what it could be, since my vet says he everything seems to be okay and we have no more ideas on what to check.