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Another picture of Hermie about 6 months post his MBD diagnosis and breaking all 4 of his legs.

This is a picture of Hermie about 6 months post his original MBD diagnosis and breaking all 4 of his legs

You would have to be careful with those heating pads ... I have used them to transport my chameleon's in emergencies (when hermie was sick and needed a vet NOW and the closes emergency vet that does reptiles was over an hour away and it was cold/winter) ... but if you leave them right up against...

Hermie's aggressive ... and that poor thing was handled three times a day when he was sick for months. He wasn't aggressive at all when he was sick though, so honestly I am GLAD that he's aggressive ... it means that he's feeling well again. Chameleons are more "look at" pets if you ask me --...

I am serious here when I would like some honest input on this decision. Hermie is doing great ... and becoming more and more self sufficient... just put the silk worms in and he does "his job" which I am very happy to say. I LOVE watching him ... he's a joy to watch, and I am very happy for him...

My veiled always gets really cranky when he's shedding and will even cut WAY down on his eating -- even completely sometimes for a day or two.

If you still have her, you could have a good vet to a necropsy or autopsy on her... that's what I had done when my first cham corey died. They can be as simple as the vet cutting them open to look around and check for abnormalities to as extensive as having tissue cultures sent off to larger...

I have a feelings that it was because I grew him too fast ... by trying to be a good "chameleon mom" I fed him as much as he would eat ... usually 20 crickets a day. I had never heard of that problem until you mentioned it a little while ago. If I go with a youngster again i will definately have...

Yes, hermie did have VERY severe MBD. All four legs broke and he had almost NO bone density anywhere but his spine. He has since healed his broken bones and gained bone density. The problem is that we could NOT figure out why he got MBD -- his crickets are properly gut loaded, they were dusted...

From my experiences and from what I've read each time they shed their coloration "increases". Hermie is now 7-8 mo old and he is still gaining coloration after each shedding; he gets more spotting, more colors/shades etc. I think that they increase their coloration "abilitites" up through...

I had something similar happen the other week with hermie... he was still in his aquarium and in order to get the UVB bulb to shine properly (it's the compacted bulb type) we clamp it to one end of the aquarium and leave the screen open just a LITTLE bit. Well after feeding him apparently I left...

I would hesitate about using pedialyte in a drip system only bc I'm afraid that it might get your cage all sticky! When Hermie was sick I *think* my vet said that the minimum amount of fluids that he needed per day was about 1 cc... and he weighed about 60 grams. Sub Q fluids given by a vet do...

My veiled's been on it for over two months. You just have to be careful that you don't OVER calcify them -- it can start to calcify their organs too if given in too large of doses, according to my vet. We just have him on a low dose once a day.

I'm very sorry for your loss ...:( I lost my first chameleon too. For the one that's still alive (there is one correct?) you really DO need to have a good temperature gradient. What most people do is set up a "basking" spot where the temperature reads 95+ degrees (mine varies as high as 102)...

have you noticed them pooping lately? One common problem wtih too low temperatures is getting an impaction. When my old chameleon corey had an impaction she also became dehydrated and light brown colored.

I think that it sounds like you have more than just dehydration going on, and that a vet certainly is in order. What sort of temperature gradient do you have for their cage? Are they being kept together? Is there a UVB light? can you tell us more about their set up? One thing that you can...

I think that my vet charges 35 for the examination and then under 10 for the fluids. Sometimes the vet doesn't even charge me for fluids bc hermie used so little ... but I'm a really regular client (and have worked for her during the summers). Emergency vets will cost more.

My vet recommends that for people who use tanks they do a weekly disinfecting of the tank, and hten a monthly cleaning with dilute bleach ... but this means that you need to be VERY careful about getting all of the bleech out of the tank before you put your cham back. THis is a big advantage...

I was just trying to figure that out yesterday, and it's been almost exactly 3 months since our first emergency visit at night. I would say that in hind sight maybe a week or two before that he was acting oddly, but we just didn't put the pieces together. He's still on a low dose of liquid...

to his "big boy" cage today. :D I never thought that this day would come but he is FINALLY back into his fully screened reptarium. I have a digital probe in it and the basking spot is varying between 102 and 99.5 (cold end = 70-75), he has his UVB light, bunches of fake fines and leaves, his...