Cham color change after butter worms?

[Action Jackson]

I just hope my little Mal is ok! What did u do?

What can you do? My Parson's ate one or two and then developed a discoloration on her mouth. After a while those scales looked like were damaged. It took months for her to recover from that episode. I personally wouldn't take a chameleon to the vet for that, what's a vet gonna do? I hope your chameleons get better. Sounds like they have a severe reaction.

 

[pigglett79]

Wait I got the butters from a woman in my area who has a worm farm and grows her own butters so probably not radiation, but I'll call tomorrow to make sure if they were home grown. I sure hope not radiation

Butter worms are hit with radiation as they are exported from Chile so that they cannot be bred outside of Chile. The radiation is to make them sterile. They are considered an agricultural pest.

 

[Cait0420]

What can you do? My Parson's ate one or two and then developed a discoloration on her mouth. After a while those scales looked like were damaged. It took months for her to recover from that episode. I personally wouldn't take a chameleon to the vet for that, what's a vet gonna do? I hope your chameleons get better. Sounds like they have a severe reaction.

Yea you're probably right, there's nothing that they can do for an allergic reaction, I'm just worried

 

[Cait0420]

Butter worms are hit with radiation as they are exported from Chile so that they cannot be bred outside of Chile. The radiation is to make them sterile. They are considered an agricultural pest.

Oh I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the info, god I hope they don't have radiation poisoning!