alarming colour change

[backwards7]

We are very worried about Schubert - our elderly panther chameleon.

A couple of hours ago his head suddenly turned a rather alarming mottled yellow and green colour with very pronounced spidering around the eyes. In the three years we have owned him we have never seen patterning like this. The fact that he has been like this for a while now would seem to suggest a physical problem as opposed to a stress reaction.

He was very restless but is slowing down a bit now. He has fallen in his vivarium and so I currently have him resting on my lap.

 

[twatts704]

If he has fallen and lost strength I would say get him to a vet imo

 

[Elizadolots]

How old is he?

 

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