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My 9 year old rescue cattledog Bug is at the vet, having been heavily sedated most of the day. She sleeps on my bed and her trembling and crying woke me out of a dead sleep at about 4 am. She had had her annual dental cleaning and a tiny growth removed from her face last Thursday, but also had a...

Before you pay anything for a sick cham I'd look it over carefully in person, maybe even having a vet look at it. Check for obvious things like intestinal or hemipene prolapses, swollen or crusted eyes, blocked nares, sores in its mouth, swollen or damaged claws/feet, crooked limbs (MBD), etc...

When you say "humidity is perfect" what does that mean? A picture of her would help. If she's getting adequate water when you don't happen to be watching, she's stable, and her cage humidity is good you may not see her drink all that much. If you post some pictures we could see whether anything...

I can only report my observations from the chams I've kept, but back in the days when there were no "pre-fab" terrarium foggers available I experimented with a pretty simple 2 gallon room ultrasonic with auxiliary fan. It was sheer necessity, living at 9000 ft elevation in the Rockies. I had 3...

I've never seen a male veiled with that large a belly. He's not just overweight (his limbs and casque don't appear fat). I would be taking this boy to a vet. An ultrasound or xray might tell a lot.

When I read this my impression is this: Petr Necas is entitled to his opinion as all of us are. If he is basing these recommendations (and that is what they are, not Gospel) on biological data that that he has observed in the wild, they should fairly be open to speculation and skepticism...

Oh, dear innocent newbie you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet! :wideyed: How about a huge dubia roach colony way overdue for culling that fell off the shelf while I was at work so the little beasts had 8 hours to disperse themselves? Probably thousands. Why did it fall off? My theory was the roaches...

Depends on the tap water. If the water source is treated with fluorine or chloramines that can be a potential problem for a cham. You'd want to neutralize the chloramine with a water conditioner like ReptiSafe. If the water source isn't treated with chloramine, you may not need it. Plain old...

There is more to hydration than drinking. Its fine to get him to drink from the nozzle directly. I like teaching my chams to do this because I get a better idea of how reliably they are drinking if I'm right there watching it. Misting the enclosure helps provide them with a humid...

What components of the system do you have now? Maybe start off listing what you DO have on hand already. FWIW, by the time you assemble everything from scratch you might not save all that much compared to buying something reliable like a Mist King, especially if you only need to mist one or two...

I've hardly ever seen chams offered for sale up here, but just the other day was surprised to see two juvenile veileds at a mom-pop pet shop/feed store/nursery. Of course they weren't set up very well, but they did have UV lighting and didn't look terrible...yet. Yes, a CF coil type bulb...

I can't recall ever immersing any cham in water. I only recall putting one newly arrived miserably dehydrated rescue in my shower, but part of the reason for it was to provide a moist, quiet warm place for it to chill while I frantically assembled a makeshift enclosure. I had a fake potted Ficus...

Sorry not to chime in on this thread earlier. I've been preoccupied by a lot of other stuff over the past couple of months. OP, where do you live in AK? When you mentioned that your rodent problem was due to an "AK endemic" did you mean red-backed voles (Clethrionomys sp)? AKAIK the exotic...

Stop wondering. Just say NO. Health issues aside, why would you think a cham would WANT to be painted with anything? You are projecting YOUR personal (and IMHO selfish) desires onto an animal that won't and can't appreciate them and you are doing it for your own pleasure. Not a humane thing to...

Caging for adult chams is expensive. You can build your own. Lots of caging ideas here if you search under the Enclosures and Supplies forum. There's a sticky about them.

Could be a small thermal burn. The grayish scab and the location suggests it. Does the discolored area change color along with the rest of the surrounding area? I was a bit confused about your lighting description. You have two bulbs that emit heat? Are you sure he can't get too close to one of...

She's not "angry", she's stressed out. And, there is a reason. She doesn't like being removed from her territory every single day. Don't confine the cham, confine the crickets. Put them in a container that is large enough that they don't tend to jump out as much. There are lots of ways to offer...

If the tissue supporting a spine was badly burned and is now dead, he'll lose the spine. Can't really prevent that. You CAN prevent secondary infection using Silvadene, but if you can't get that (check with local vets) Polysporin is OK. I prefer Polysporin over Neosporin but either one will...

BTW, that isn't "ripped off scales", that's ripped off SKIN. The leg has been entirely de-gloved. Whether it will be able to scab over and heal and not become a mass of stiff painful scar tissue...? Poor little thing! Must be incredibly painful.