White Discharge Coming Out of Chameleon Nose?

Amberjewel

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Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - She is a 4-5 month old (might be older or younger, I don't have an exact age) veiled chameleon. We've had her for about a week.
  • Handling - We hand-feed her almost every day and we are getting her used to our hands and us but no actual handling yet.
  • Feeding - Crickets and superworms. She gets 8-10 small crickets (the ones from petsmart) every day and 2-3 superworms a week. I feed the worms lettuce from our garden and kale and the crickets get Flukers Orange cubes, potatoes, apples, oats, lettuce, carrots, kale, and brocoli.
  • Supplements - Flukers Repti Calcium and we coat the crickets in it. Usually she gets 3-4 crickets covered in it.
  • Watering - She has a dripper and a fountain, and we mist the cage mulitple times a day
  • Fecal Description - dark brown-black with some yellowish white stuff
  • History - She came from petsmart but thats it

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Screen, 2 feet wide, 2 feet long, and 4 feet high
  • Lighting - We have a zoomed basking light and a UVB bulb
  • Temperature - Basking area is 85-90 and the rest of the cage is 72-75.
  • Humidity - 60-70%, we mist and use a waterfall
  • Plants - All fake
  • Placement - By our back door, next to a small vent. The top is about 6 or so feet of the floor.
  • Location - Mid-east coast. So scortching in the summer and buried in snow in the winter basically.

Current Problem - TI've been noticing white discahrge in her nose every day or so. Sometimes it's only in one nostril or sometimes its in both. It usually falls out not long after I notice it.
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Its salt! That's how veiled chams get rid of it, through their nostrils! Nothing to worry about, its normal!
 
That's nasal salts and nothing to be worried about. I do recommend checkingout the care sheets as there's some issues with your husbandry. Are you only supplementing with the multivitamin? She needs calcium too. And being by a drafty door and vent can cause issues especially once winter rolls around.
 
Sorry I read that wrong. Are you only using the calcium and is it calcium with D3 or without? Are you using a multi vitamin? And I know waterfalls look cool but they are basically bacteria breeding grounds and can make your chameleon sick
 
Oh ok thank you! And the door isn't drafty. It's actually quite warm there and the vent doesn't blow on her.
And the calcium has D3 and vitamins a in it.
As for the waterfall I wash it frequently because of that problem. Every few days I take it out, rinse it thoroughly with hot water, and I replace the water itself often as well.
 
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