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Yeah those are her calm colors overall, if she's stressed she'll go maroon and the patterns become more pronounced

Tail strong

For clarity i meant warm bath for her, i know lukewarm is like 98, so I tried to guess about 80 degrees the best I could, it felt like it was under my skin temp. Not trying to make chameleon soup. Sorry for any raised eyebrows.

But it may not be that, just trying to help her all I can. It pains me to not see her using that eye normally.

Noted, I mean she's legit fine right now so I think we're good but I don't plan on bathing her again I suppose I can just spray some water on the impacted areas if needed. I just had figured some steam or water might help to release the stuck flesh.

Yes that is why I made sure it was cold to me, she has no burns on her exterior, it was also a very short bath, obviously chameleons don't like to stay in water. She chilled in the water for a minute and started climbing out, so I helped her out and put her in her cage to bask and dry off.

No I agree, I'm saying if you think it's bad I'll hold off. I was just doing research and I found posts from 2015 regarding female ambilobe panther chameleons on this forum, with people who had experienced the same issue, and they had given either a short bath or a steam to help release the...

The bath was about 2 minutes, still haven't done a shower, but I suppose I can hold off on it if you think it'll kill her doing it one time.

Still having this issue off and on. The eye drops help but not fully, it looks like her eye on the outside may have some shed on it, so I gave her a warm bath hoping maybe that would help release some skin. I have a vet appointment still for next month for fecals to find out if it's parasitic in...

Ah Ah, Thank you

Tried to get a pic of me holding him but he kinda jumped off my hand to the desk 😅🤣 He's quick, they don't really like warm human flesh by nature, which is fine, I prefer to not hold it anyway lmao

That's why I bought one. I have a pink toe tarantula, their venom if bit feels like a wasp, but their first two defenses are 1. Run 2. Shoot poop They only use venom for the purpose of the kill. They are really chill, easy to feed and keep, I highly recommend it! They are trippy to hold!

I'll only argue when I see a legitimate reason to, but you guys present sound arguments I cannot deny, so why fight about it. We're all good, I appreciate the help and advice always. We're all here to improve the lives of our chams at the end of the day, it's okay to be humble and have humility.

I have a pet tarantula 😳

I honestly appreciate someone speaking up and saying something. I'm sure my little upbringing technique will still work just fine with fingers!

I'm not mad about it. Like I get it, tongs aren't horrible per se, but it's not the best practice for feeding. The tongs are helpful for dusting my bugs, but I can move the bugs from the tongs to my fingers and hold it myself. The health of my chameleons isn't really worth a small factor of...

Yeah I can think of a few things that could go wrong, and I suppose the opportunity for risk isn't really worth it. I can still be involved in the feeding process without placing my chams in harms way unnecessarily.

And yeah it's not an issue for me to hold bugs in my fingers either. It makes more sense because you have no feeling in the metal, your brain might not react faster than the chameleon can decide whether or not its tongue is back in its mouth, and I suppose in that small window of opportunity...

Are you saying that the chameleons tongue sticks to the bug and the chameleon bites its own tongue off? Makes sense, I'll stop using tongs and set the bugs down on the screen.

I never said it hasn't happened, I said that it's unlikely given how I hold the insects in the tongs, they don't have an opportunity to even hit the tongs, the insect faces the chameleon from out of the tongs, so there's no space for them to miss and hit the metal of the tongs.