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If you stick your finger or a small pencile, or something of that nature in his "mitten" will he even try to grip it?

My vet told me to give 0.2 ml twice a day orally. It never made him vomit or anything. But those were just the recommendations of my vet and my experiences. His first poop was rather ... oily. Jamie

When my current cham had an impaction they had me give him mineral oil everyday and subq fluids to help loosen up and move along the impaction. my first cham had a very severe impaction and with her they did that plus upping her cage temp and giving her long hot soaks in a water bath (not...

I know that beardies can suffer from paralysis due to eating crickets too large and getting impacted (it presses on one nerve or another) but I have never heard of it in a chameleon. I would go back to your vet and ask for a barium study. Barium shows up on xrays and can be force "fed" to the...

Well I'd suggest taking him to the vet since this can be a life threatening problem. I know first hand bc I lost my first cham to one. When hermie got an impaction we did an xray to check him out, elected not to do a barium series at that time, as it seemed a little too stressful considering he...

I would get a vet to look at your chameleon ... a bent casque can be one of the early signs of MBD. jme

The vet I use really advocates keeping a CLOSE eye on your cham's (or any small reptile's) weight. It's easy enough to do ... I just have a small gram scale that I picked up at the office supply store for less than 20 dollars. I try to get my cham onto it once a week or once every other week...

you can get vitamin D3 injections from your vet. they aren't a permanent solution but they were very helpful in getting hermie back on his road to recovery. Herm got 1 every week for a month. I saw him gain more bone density (which we documented with xrays every month) on one month of the liquid...

That's what my females' feces looked like when she was impacted. I didn't recognize the signs until it was too late. :( and despite 4 days of intensive care at the vets we still lost her. Please take your cham to the vet and get her checked out. If I had recognized it sooner we probably could...

I would get your chameleon to a vet ASAP. I lost my first veiled chameleon to an impaction -- she was doing something very similar and just passing urates. I was not very educated at the time, unfortunately, and did not recognize this as a huge problem since she acted normal for some time...

Thanks. I definately have to give him the credit. I said from the beginning that if he ever gave up we were done and I"d have him humanely euthanized. But the little guy kept going with non-stressed colors, would eat worms out of your hand and baby food out of a syringe, drank from a syringe and...

after a (longish) hiatus I just wanted to pop in with a picture of hermie (I have a folder under "jam" in the members folders). Some of you might remember hermie's long struggle with MBD that ended up with him breaking all four legs, and having 3 casts and a sling. (yes, you did read that...

your critical care formula sounds like what I used wtih my ill chameleon ... and he LOVED the stuff. I would mix it with water so that it was a paste, use a syringe and suck some up and then squirt it in his mouth, or put it on his lips/nose until he finally got annoyed enough to open his mouth...

My veiled has bit me before -- it's not so bad. But beware of what my vet refers to as "the splat factor." You get bit and automatically (without even thinking) snap back, cham doesn't let go automatically and gets flung across the room ... the name says it all. Unfortunately she's seen too many...

when my cham died the vet did a post-mortem on her to see what the cause was, so she disposed of the cham (she got sent to a mass-burial type thing).

my first chameleon was a veiled named Corey. She was all that I wanted for my birthday. I worked for an exotics vet and the first chameleon that I saw was an egg bound female that was being brought in to be euthanized bc the owners didn't want to do anything else. As dumb as it sounds I fell in...

Hermie did receive liquid calcium and vitamin D injections once a week. he was actually pretty good about it. when he saw it coming he'd open his mouth and we'd just shoot it in. He got to the point where he more or less figured out the drill I guess and realized that the quicker we got things...

Houdini Hermie, my veiled has escaped many times. Granted not with the possibility of going outside but I have sworn up and down multiple times that I have torn apart everything, looked everywhere, etc. and he's GONE only to have him show up 24-48 hours later. :o I'd suggest leaving his cage...

A side-note on the biting behavior. Hermie was quickly nicknamed "Hissy Hermie" as a baby because he did everyething in his power to strike and bite you if you came near him. When he was extremely ill with MBD and had his broken bones he actually became VERY tolerant ... almost friendly. Never...