from what i read i wouldn't suggest to anyone to use wild caught feeders. It's a risk i wouldn't take. They can be very dangerous for the chameleon
I am breeding my feeders and i have crickets ( 2 spieces), zophobas morio, just started a blaptica dubia colony, tenebrio molitor and i tried to...
damn i realy got attached to the chameleon :X they are magnificent animals ...
I hope that this thread helps the newbies and show them what MBD is capable of so they don't do the same mistake i did ...
I think that it's caused due to the old bulb and she didn't absorb enough calcium ...
it looked like she was getting better ... her grip got a lot stronger than it was ... also her tail returned to a normal color ... but i found her dead. The area around her ribs had dark stripes alongside the ribs ... 5 dark stripes long 1 cm this was only on the right side of her body and she...
well she haven't injured it while i was watching her thats for sure ... and the last few weeks i was at home mainly ... the only time i wasn't watching is when she was with the vet ... she just told me to wait and went somewhere with the cham ... first to take x-ray and after that she did the...
hmm now i think i have a new problem ... before she went to a vet she was moving ok even her rear legs but what im seeing is from 3 days she is not moving well her rear part of the body ... she can move the tail and grab with her back legs but today i saw her dragging her rear legs. Also i...
I was giving her 8-12 crickets every other day (depends on the size of the feeder) or equivalent in other feeder and i leave them there until she finishes eating em ... sometimes she ate im in a day sometimes in 2. I'm not letting the feeders to roam in the enclosure ... cup feeding, it's easyer...
Well she i don't know why she decided to put the 2 injections in the rear legs ... but she did that. The vet gave me CaCo3 and AD3E ... believe the first one is calcium and the second one is vitamin D3. The calcium is powder while the vitamin D3 is in syringe. She told me to use as much...
Thank you for the information guys :) you proved to me again that this is the best forum for chameleons
I hope she gets back to good heath fast i'll post here her condition
i found a clinic and got her there ... the doc made a x-ray. It's MBD ... she got 2 injections in her rear legs and the doc gave me vitamins ... CaCo3 and AD3E
well i think there are 2 reasons for her current condition ... the one is the repti glo 5.0 tube and the second one maybe i've been...
well maybe i'm a bit over reacting i know a vet who can do blood work and have experence with reptiles but when it comes to my cham ... im freaking a bit out ... and thank you :) i will look for someone good with birds and ask him for oppinon
i will take her to a vet but i will have to wait till monday :X although im not sure he wll help, as i mentioned in the earlyer posts chameleons are not popular around here and the vets don't know much about them and also see them rarely
i know that if it is MBD and gout can be confirmed with...
2 months ago she layed eggs for first time. She layed 34 eggs without any problems.
she can't lay eggs in the plant soil because i put a mesh on it to be sure that she doesn't try to and she have a laying bin in the enclosure.
now she can't lay in the plant soil
and no the top of the terrarium is made of mesh only
i've ordered a linear tube and i am waiting for it
unfortunately here i can find only repti glo ...