Hi everyone,
Do you still remember the WC cham that was collected outside the garden almost 4 weeks ago? He/She is doing just fine. He/she has gained about 1cm length and much weight too. Will be a month with us on Thuresday.
I hav to say, this forum really helped me a lot, so much on keeping this cutie little one. I really appreciate all the articles, discussions, suggestions and pics on the forums, eventho they are not for me, but I learnt so much.
Pls dont judge me that I am keeping the WC cham. I am just another cham lover fancinated about them. I may not know as much as you pros do, but I can learn and I am willing to.
Today, we took the first trip to an exotic vet since this morning I suddenly found a few tiny little dark brown spots on his right eye and right lower jaw. The spots are very few and light, cant really tell. My bf said its part of the changing color. But I didnt think so. I hav read so much here about the signs of illness and how chams hide them and all that, I spent some time here but couldnt get any conclusion. So, I decided to take him/her to see an exotic vet. There are only 2 reptile vets in the whole city--not many people keep reptiles. One is closer, about 50ks away, another is 60-70ks away, the latter said to be the best reptile vet. I called to confirm that the vet had seen many chams before and is very experienced with chams. So, We went.
The traffic was bad, we were 7 mins late for our 5:20pm app. So, we had to wait for the 6pm openning. My bf said if there is nothing wrong with the cham but he drove me all the way there and back, I hav to do everything that day without any complains.
Skinny just got a little fungus infection on the skin. Still in the very early stage. The vet gave me some liquid medicine to dilute with water to put onto the cham 2ic a week for 6 weeks. We also chatted about how to keep cham and all that. He actually supported me keeping the cham. He said the cham is still a very young baby, about two months. I am not sure, if so, then we got skinny only when it is one month? Some of my friends who had chams b4 said it is 4 months, some others say it is under 6 months. Anyway, it is a baby. The pooping part is still baby like--urate and facets together. The vet said a lot of chams die in winter coz it is too cold in the wild. and if I can mimic the natural environment but better, then why leave the cham in the wild? I know some of you might agaist this idea. But I want to try, not with skinny's life, but with my heart.
At any stage I feel I can not cope, I hav talked to a very experienced reptile breeder, she is willing to take over skinny and breed with this one.
Oh, 4got to tell, since skinny is too young, we cant tell the sex yet. But some of you were right, the vet also said if it grows older, if it is male, there should be a spur at the rear leg somewhere. I will see.
Thanx people
Kristi
Do you still remember the WC cham that was collected outside the garden almost 4 weeks ago? He/She is doing just fine. He/she has gained about 1cm length and much weight too. Will be a month with us on Thuresday.
I hav to say, this forum really helped me a lot, so much on keeping this cutie little one. I really appreciate all the articles, discussions, suggestions and pics on the forums, eventho they are not for me, but I learnt so much.
Pls dont judge me that I am keeping the WC cham. I am just another cham lover fancinated about them. I may not know as much as you pros do, but I can learn and I am willing to.
Today, we took the first trip to an exotic vet since this morning I suddenly found a few tiny little dark brown spots on his right eye and right lower jaw. The spots are very few and light, cant really tell. My bf said its part of the changing color. But I didnt think so. I hav read so much here about the signs of illness and how chams hide them and all that, I spent some time here but couldnt get any conclusion. So, I decided to take him/her to see an exotic vet. There are only 2 reptile vets in the whole city--not many people keep reptiles. One is closer, about 50ks away, another is 60-70ks away, the latter said to be the best reptile vet. I called to confirm that the vet had seen many chams before and is very experienced with chams. So, We went.
The traffic was bad, we were 7 mins late for our 5:20pm app. So, we had to wait for the 6pm openning. My bf said if there is nothing wrong with the cham but he drove me all the way there and back, I hav to do everything that day without any complains.
Skinny just got a little fungus infection on the skin. Still in the very early stage. The vet gave me some liquid medicine to dilute with water to put onto the cham 2ic a week for 6 weeks. We also chatted about how to keep cham and all that. He actually supported me keeping the cham. He said the cham is still a very young baby, about two months. I am not sure, if so, then we got skinny only when it is one month? Some of my friends who had chams b4 said it is 4 months, some others say it is under 6 months. Anyway, it is a baby. The pooping part is still baby like--urate and facets together. The vet said a lot of chams die in winter coz it is too cold in the wild. and if I can mimic the natural environment but better, then why leave the cham in the wild? I know some of you might agaist this idea. But I want to try, not with skinny's life, but with my heart.
At any stage I feel I can not cope, I hav talked to a very experienced reptile breeder, she is willing to take over skinny and breed with this one.
Oh, 4got to tell, since skinny is too young, we cant tell the sex yet. But some of you were right, the vet also said if it grows older, if it is male, there should be a spur at the rear leg somewhere. I will see.
Thanx people
Kristi