Anybody do thier own chams Fecal Examinations?

[SilverDragoness]

For shame a veterinarian driving a nice car. No one else gets to do that. I drive a 1993 volvo and from my personal friends none of them drives anything too nice.

 

[clarkrw3]

Once you have more chameleons you will find it isn't practical or economical to haul all your animals to the vet for fecals. All the stress from the drive, the strange vet techs and Dr.'s holding your animals is a lot of stress on a chameleon. Due to the amount of animals I have, the vet will just come to my facility and prescribe the meds as needed. She will take a look at my fecals to confirm and give meds as needed. However, I have a nice stock pile of meds now. So basically, I just re-up if they expire.

Still I believe it is very beneficial for you to learn from the books the vets use. Just invest in a microscope and get several books on reptile parasites. You will quickly learn what to look for. Float kits and slideds are cheap. I believe it is an invaluable lesson to learn, when keeping many reptiles.

Which Scope did you end up getting? I am in the market and was thinking about the one posted in this thread but they are also suppose to have a new 4.5" LCD one out this month.

Also If anyone has the Celestron 44340 LCD mentioned in this thread I would LOVE to know how you like it!

I would love to have a camera attached to take pictures with but most that have a usb camera don't work too well with mac's