I don’t know about pain management but you can help him feel contented. Ensure he is hydrated and warm. He can’t move around to thermoregulate and drink without discomfort so prepare a comfortable hospital bin with the right level of warmth so he isn’t cold.
Also have on hand a syringe for...
My Betty is blind in one eye but really vibrant.
She actually regained the ability to open and use her eye a bit after I got her, and sees shadows. She has to be able to use her eyelid to squint to regulate light. She began to use her eye more when I upped the humidity a bit and gave a monthly...
Hey I’m not offended at all I’m going to do bio someday too. I think that my tendency is to want limited variables and add new things slowly when I’m trying to master something... like a juggler adding pins.
That’s just how I arrived at the fact that someone asking where poop went may be in a...
Sometimes the poop lands on leaves, sometimes they go down to the ground, sometimes they poop on you... but the poop is really really easy to clean up. Not smeary and doesn’t smell as bad as other animals.
So I wouldn’t over think it- keep it simple so you can focus on the more important needs...
If you have guests and can’t get the crickets back in the bin I have a trick. I put on an ambient rainforest soundtrack and claim to have really good surround sound.
Best of luck with your new colony Joxie.
Thanks for posting this. I really appreciate it. I got my special needs chammies free having never owned a reptile and most days I’m feeling in over my head too. I’m obsessed with trying to gradually fix everything, but it’s hard. It is extremely expensive and even scary. It takes all my...
Ok it’s good that you are working on it! Not there yet. Don’t quit, keep the momentum going we want more progress pictures.
Next try removing the substrate and adding a plant like an umbrella plant, and some horizontal branches or dowels.
Check the list of safe plants?
Is he eating?
I don’t know much, but an experienced chameleon owner advised me that when he used to own chameleons and rent, the annual pesticides that were sprayed by the property manager would cause severe upper respiratory infection in his chams. So I just wanted to put it out there that whatever you all...