taylorinchains
New Member
My apologies for this being my first post but this issue just recently happened and it has me really worried...
Your Chameleon - Ambanja, male, approximately nine to eleven months having been in my care for nearly six months.
Handling - Only when necessary, he has always seemed to prefer solitude.
Feeding - Crickets and super worms. I normally drop in about six or seven in the morning followed by one or two worms every night. The crickets are fed Fluckers orange diet cubes.
Supplements - Every other meal I dust the insect(s) with Sticky Tongue Farm's red top(outdoor), and then once every week I dust them with S.T.F's yellow top(indoor) as well as Reptivite's reptile vitamins without D3.
Watering - I mist the cage and him gently for about a minute or two(he flinches and generally doesn't like being misted) twice a day, once the morning after he has warmed up and about a half hour before I hit the lights. Otherwise I leave on a humidifier from lights on till off which I see him drinking more from than when I mist.
Fecal Description - I'm unsure if he's been tested, and it's wet, dark with white urate.
History - Nope.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - It's a screen cage, 16x16x20.
Lighting - ReptiSun 5.0 UVB Bulb with a reptile 50 Watt basking spot bulb in a dome fixture for his basking spot. Lights on at about dawn so around seven or eight, and turned off at about ten or eleven
Temperature - From the low sixties to high seventies ranging from top to bottom and it's always in the eighties in his basking spot. At night the cage normally is around the low seventies, high sixties sometimes. Thermometer.
Humidity - sixty-five to eighty-five percent. Humidifier, and by a humidity gauge near the back of his cage.
Plants - Yes, one ficus.
Placement - On top a bookcase, the nearest fan is the ceiling fan. And it's about a five to six foot difference from the top of the cage to room floor.
Location - Austin, Texas.
Current Problem - As of yesterday he stopped opening his left eye, it's slightly sunken in and sometimes the lower part of his eye will jut outwards for a split second. He eats normally, and his behavior has seemed normal too but I'm going to take him to the nearest vet today. I was just looking for some insight from you guys first, here's what his eye looks like as of now.
Where his eyes seems to be sagging is where it'll swell at... Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
Your Chameleon - Ambanja, male, approximately nine to eleven months having been in my care for nearly six months.
Handling - Only when necessary, he has always seemed to prefer solitude.
Feeding - Crickets and super worms. I normally drop in about six or seven in the morning followed by one or two worms every night. The crickets are fed Fluckers orange diet cubes.
Supplements - Every other meal I dust the insect(s) with Sticky Tongue Farm's red top(outdoor), and then once every week I dust them with S.T.F's yellow top(indoor) as well as Reptivite's reptile vitamins without D3.
Watering - I mist the cage and him gently for about a minute or two(he flinches and generally doesn't like being misted) twice a day, once the morning after he has warmed up and about a half hour before I hit the lights. Otherwise I leave on a humidifier from lights on till off which I see him drinking more from than when I mist.
Fecal Description - I'm unsure if he's been tested, and it's wet, dark with white urate.
History - Nope.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - It's a screen cage, 16x16x20.
Lighting - ReptiSun 5.0 UVB Bulb with a reptile 50 Watt basking spot bulb in a dome fixture for his basking spot. Lights on at about dawn so around seven or eight, and turned off at about ten or eleven
Temperature - From the low sixties to high seventies ranging from top to bottom and it's always in the eighties in his basking spot. At night the cage normally is around the low seventies, high sixties sometimes. Thermometer.
Humidity - sixty-five to eighty-five percent. Humidifier, and by a humidity gauge near the back of his cage.
Plants - Yes, one ficus.
Placement - On top a bookcase, the nearest fan is the ceiling fan. And it's about a five to six foot difference from the top of the cage to room floor.
Location - Austin, Texas.
Current Problem - As of yesterday he stopped opening his left eye, it's slightly sunken in and sometimes the lower part of his eye will jut outwards for a split second. He eats normally, and his behavior has seemed normal too but I'm going to take him to the nearest vet today. I was just looking for some insight from you guys first, here's what his eye looks like as of now.
Where his eyes seems to be sagging is where it'll swell at... Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
