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Before I take on a new exotic I check the local (local as in a distance I'm willing to drive to reach) vets to see if any of them can treat it. Its not a matter of IF you'll need a vet its WHEN. FWIW, I agree with others; that's a gravid female who happens to possess 3 horns.

OP it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY that this cham died because of supplements...either an overdose OR a deficiency. Please, if you really want to find out what happened you need to look further into it. If you still have the cham and he hasn't been frozen, you could ask a vet to do a necropsy to rule out...

Latex paint isn't a problem if the surface is dry/cured enough to withstand rubbing. It shouldn't wrinkle, peel or come off on your fingers.

OP How long did you have this cham? NONE of the husbandry problems being discussed would have killed a healthy cham within a day or two! There would have been a more gradual decline. If your cham did crash that quickly something else was seriously wrong. A necropsy might tell you more and the...

Gave up on drippers fairly quickly for this and other reasons. I lived in very dry climates and had to drench the cage foliage multiple times a day anyway. What was the point? Fussing with them just wasn't worth it. Actually, when I first started keeping chams terrarium drippers weren't...

A better option to these are collapsible laundry hampers. Same idea (flexible fine mesh with a tensioned wire frame) but you can get them in larger sizes for a lot less money and they don't require being suspended from anything. You can sometimes find links for nice large ones from...

Edited to add: Good luck getting a cham to pay much attention to some dead hunk of "protein" you try to get it to eat anyway.

I suspect the population will stabilize down to a lower level as everything reaches equilibrium.

It takes a while for corrections to husbandry to "show", but that should have made a difference by now. The effects of lack of proper lighting and the correct vitamin/mineral balance didn't happen overnight either so it will take time to see a change once you do. If he want to drink and eat...

OK, fine. If this really is about what is safe/good for them, then that is the food their body system has evolved to eat in the wild as they developed as species. And that's terrestrial bugs. While it has been speculated that some giant species of chameleons such as Parson's and melleri might...

Somehow I doubt the trouble is that he CAN'T open his mouth enough, but that there's some other problem going on that prevents him from either shooting the tongue itself, or coordinating eyes/tongue well enough in order to shoot. Many times a cham that can't successfully coordinate the...

Small bird cages (search garage sales/thrift stores) work fine for temporary enclosures assuming there's one larger door the cham and/or your hand can reach through. Easy to add perches. Also for a trip to a vet with a towel draped over the top, but a cardboard box with a perch wedged inside...

I'd never trust a cham on an outdoor free range unless my eyes were glued to it the entire time!!!

Its a combination of things. The force of the shot's impact pushes the prey into the soft and fleshy tip allowing it to partially envelop more of the bug's surface. The other part of the effect is due to the moist tacky coating. One reason why a dehydrated cham can't catch prey as successfully...

What's a "carpet aunt"? Either a really tiny relative with a bitter taste or an insect. Ants are usually high in formic acid. I'd be surprised if your cham tries one again.

I realize I'm not in the same circumstances most of you are, but for the past few towns I've lived in there were only one or two pet stores to choose from for ANY pet supplies. No big box chains. Some percentage of pet owners bought mass produced cheaper crap food/supplies from the...

Agree. Even if she could retract her tongue normally she can still get chunks of moss stuck to it, swallow it, and it can end up blocking her GI tract.

Did you buy this cham from Petco? If so, I would immediately forget everything that store told you about chams. I'm surprised the lady's own chameleon is still alive. They are obviously clueless and probably set you up to fail this poor female. Literally directly above your OP on the forum...

Be careful. No one will appreciate your exotic roaches escaping an outside cage if you don't live at a latitude with a cool enough climate to prevent them from breeding!

Goes to show you that some people (or pets...) will try anything ONCE!