Amanda1801
New Member
Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge, or could point me in the direction of any publications detailing chameleon anatomy?
I've had my veiled chameleon for about 18 months, he's now around 2 years old.
He came to me with advanced MBD with severe pathalogical fractures and some kind of systemic infection. After a lot of treatment, he was fine. His xrays showed huge improvement in his bone density and he was exhibiting normal behaviours.
This October, he started showing signs of being unwell. The first thing that I noticed, was that he stopped producing faeces. He quickly then started to sleep during the day. We treated him symptomatically to begin with, and while he was passing faeces with the aid of a laxative, he then stopped eating/drinking/passing faeces and urates. He's been eating maybe once a week for the last 3 weeks, and drinking occasionally.
He's had further xrays done as something could be felt in his abdomen, although this appeared to be normal faeces.
However, these most recent xrays have shown something odd in his cranio-ventral chest region, that has not previously shown on any other xrays. All the vets and myself (I'm a veterinary anatomist) are stumped as to what it is, and his case has been referred to a reptile specialist. The specialist came back to us very confused, and requested more xrays from different views. These were taken with the chameleon having to be sedated, and have been sent back to the specialist.
He's showing improvements after having got some electrolyte solution into him. He's started eating again today too, but he's still very much not right.
I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge, or could point me in the direction of any publications detailing chameleon anatomy?
I've had my veiled chameleon for about 18 months, he's now around 2 years old.
He came to me with advanced MBD with severe pathalogical fractures and some kind of systemic infection. After a lot of treatment, he was fine. His xrays showed huge improvement in his bone density and he was exhibiting normal behaviours.
This October, he started showing signs of being unwell. The first thing that I noticed, was that he stopped producing faeces. He quickly then started to sleep during the day. We treated him symptomatically to begin with, and while he was passing faeces with the aid of a laxative, he then stopped eating/drinking/passing faeces and urates. He's been eating maybe once a week for the last 3 weeks, and drinking occasionally.
He's had further xrays done as something could be felt in his abdomen, although this appeared to be normal faeces.
However, these most recent xrays have shown something odd in his cranio-ventral chest region, that has not previously shown on any other xrays. All the vets and myself (I'm a veterinary anatomist) are stumped as to what it is, and his case has been referred to a reptile specialist. The specialist came back to us very confused, and requested more xrays from different views. These were taken with the chameleon having to be sedated, and have been sent back to the specialist.
He's showing improvements after having got some electrolyte solution into him. He's started eating again today too, but he's still very much not right.
