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Simply thought I should try with a chameleon what we've done with other pet skulls at university as students. It all began while learning for the anatomy exams... some years later a friend gave me his dead chameleon. And I had some free time in the evenings of a practical training in a foreign...

That's true, although they have a real big nutritious value - it's only they contain too much fat and protein to be a good regular chameleon food. Mealworms should be rare treats and can easily fed by hand separately. I would not recommend to feed that much worms you need a bowl or anything...

Ok, so he had fractures and that's probably why he got the medication. Do you know whether the fractures were caused by poor mineralization or made by humans grabbing the chameleon, a hard fall down somewhere etc.? Were x-rays done to differentiate both? A (fresh) fracture doesn't heal properly...

No, lost scales (every spike is one scale) don't grow back. They even don't get lost accidentally. Is there a possibility he could have burned his back? Or could he have hurt himself otherwise inside the cage? I would recommend to find the reason for the "lost" scales. If there's an skin...

Did your chameleon get infusions additionally to Enrofloxacin and Meloxicam, too? Both medication can have bad effects on kidneys and chameleons are sensitive to renal issues, that's why they always should be well hydrated during treatment. Was there any blood work done? Any further...

It's totally normal to see the ribs, the hip and the tips of the vertebrae of a chameleon, even in a completely overfed one. He will never be "filled out". There's no fat tissue under their skin above, so they can't store any fat as mammals do on belly and hips. Chameleons have special abdominal...

Well, I'm lucky to have healthy living chameleons between a half and six years old at home, too. ;). Maybe this tread can assure you... those and other reptiles lived in my flat long before I began to prepare anything as a hobby. :) No, surely not me. I don't sell any of them for money. No...

Skull of a Rieppeleon brevicaudatus male. Skeleton will follow.

Good evening everyone, hope there's still something new to find out in such a long lasting thread for you ;). Today I'm going to upload a picture of a male Kinyongia boehmei. He's definitely on my favourite chameleon skeletons' list. The skulls besides are from different Furcifer pardalis males...

This can't be answered without knowing anything about your chameleon, his infection, the antibiotics given and involved bacteria. Antibiotics have different ways to fight bacteria and need different effective levels to work, therefore some need more and some less time to fight an infection. And...

No, they're not if eaten! Ficus sp. contain furcocumarines and flavonoid compounds. I know cases with chameleons eating Ficus and getting in trouble due to that (vomiting, diarrhea and one even got paralysis after regularly eating huge amounts of Ficus tree leaves). Nobody knows whether a...

Little update today. This is a Furcifer pardalis male, approximately only three month old. Unfortunately he lost some ribs and the breast bone during preparation, cause the bones and cartilages are really soft yet in such a young chameleon. Note the big "hole" in the frontal bone over his eyes...

Could be a partially reabsorbed egg. Sometimes chameleons try to absorb eggs cause environment seems not to be appropiate for a pregnancy, e.g. during transport of a wild caught to its new home country (which is really stressful). Those residues leave the body through cloaca - and if there is...

The "reptile pox" called infections we got over here are "misunderstood" ones, cause they're mostly made of Papillomaviridae, not Poxviridae. "Reptile pox" aren't that seldom, but they're in fact no "pox" infection. That's what I wanted to note. In my opinion the chance to find poxviridae in...

As far as I know, there's no real knowledge yet about blood groups in chameleons. But that doesn't matter for one single (and especially the first in a patient) transfusion. As in every other species, your vet will do a crossmatching test before transfusion to assure donor's and receptor's blood...

And that's still really a lot for an adult. I wouldn't try to "trick" a chameleon to eat more at all. If an adult and healthy chameleon stops eating although you offer him attractive feeders, he has been overfed before. A 10 month old Furcifer pardalis can be fed like an adult one. More days...

Did you take a look at the ARAV listing for Indiana? Noone of them's really nearby your town, but a longer drive to a specialized vet can be life-saving sometimes, so it's definitely something to think about.

First about feeding, which seems to be a major problem: 9 adult sized insects a day (about 50-60 a week!) is a lot too much for an adult male. Even 20 a week would be too much. Overfeeding can cause fat liver, renal diseases, gout etc., so please cut down feeding immediately to a healthy amount...

Trying antibiotics without knowing who to fight in such a severe case can worsen and lengthen the process a lot (yes, it can "harm" this way, of cause!). Using not working antibiotics or antifungals can even lead to new resistances in involved bacteria or fungus. That's nothing I'd recommend at...

Teeth in chameleon consist of bone, which can be somewhat yellowish or fawn, but regularly not brown. There might be slight discolourations, too, but that's really something to check up immediately due to big and long lasting problems with mouth rot in chameleons. Please take her to a reptile...