Hoj
Friendly Grasshopper
Hello there, Sorry to hear about your cham, but they can go on to live a happy fairly normal life.
My dear Camo R.I.P lost his toungue when he was about 4 months oold and I was devastated.
He did learn to cope quite well though.
First of I will memntion that if it is a new injury a vet visit should be in order, they would prob perscribe a bacis turn of baytril just to fight off an possible infection.
As far as feeding and wtering goes here is how i did it.
First thing, if it is a new injury than your cham may be reluctant to try nd eat and you may need to force feed for a few days.
What I did was to take a few crickets usually 2-4 and place them in a deli cup then put the cup in the fridge for about 5min, it slows the crickets way down. Then take a pair of cuticle scissors and cut off the hopper legs and any real long anteni, ( even the other legs if your cham is having trouble at first )
I would take the cricket and hold it by the butt and offer it to Camo.
There are a few different tech's to accomplish this.
1, hold the feeder out a distance untill they get a sight and interest in it, they slowly move closer and if the mouth opens pop it in. ( sometimes ( OFTEN ) they still try to shoot but all that comes out is a stump or the hythoid (sp) bone ) if they do this I gently let the toungue or stump guide the cricket in, it seemed to trigger a better chewing responce than just poppin it in.
2, holding the cricket the same way kind of move it around in a cricket fasion on the branches right in front of the cham and gently tap the end of their nose with it, if the mouth opens repeat above.
As well I found that my cham came to love friuts, esp kiwi. I would cut it into tiny slices about the same size as a cricket and feeed it off with the same tech. I beleive he was getting most of his water this way. You can alos take a small eyey dropper and drip little tiny drops onto thier nose, sometimes they will just opemn thier mouth and drink and others they will bite right onto the dripper end and take water that way.
I should mention that without their toungue they seem to have a hard time manovering the food around their mouth and will often get a feeder or pc of fruit stuck in there, mostly on the roof of the mouth.
How i removed this was to take a dry pc of a umbrella tree stem and use the little hooked end where the leaf was attached and gently remove the problem.
Sorry if any of this is confusing or vage.
Feel free to pm me with anything eles
My dear Camo R.I.P lost his toungue when he was about 4 months oold and I was devastated.
He did learn to cope quite well though.
First of I will memntion that if it is a new injury a vet visit should be in order, they would prob perscribe a bacis turn of baytril just to fight off an possible infection.
As far as feeding and wtering goes here is how i did it.
First thing, if it is a new injury than your cham may be reluctant to try nd eat and you may need to force feed for a few days.
What I did was to take a few crickets usually 2-4 and place them in a deli cup then put the cup in the fridge for about 5min, it slows the crickets way down. Then take a pair of cuticle scissors and cut off the hopper legs and any real long anteni, ( even the other legs if your cham is having trouble at first )
I would take the cricket and hold it by the butt and offer it to Camo.
There are a few different tech's to accomplish this.
1, hold the feeder out a distance untill they get a sight and interest in it, they slowly move closer and if the mouth opens pop it in. ( sometimes ( OFTEN ) they still try to shoot but all that comes out is a stump or the hythoid (sp) bone ) if they do this I gently let the toungue or stump guide the cricket in, it seemed to trigger a better chewing responce than just poppin it in.
2, holding the cricket the same way kind of move it around in a cricket fasion on the branches right in front of the cham and gently tap the end of their nose with it, if the mouth opens repeat above.
As well I found that my cham came to love friuts, esp kiwi. I would cut it into tiny slices about the same size as a cricket and feeed it off with the same tech. I beleive he was getting most of his water this way. You can alos take a small eyey dropper and drip little tiny drops onto thier nose, sometimes they will just opemn thier mouth and drink and others they will bite right onto the dripper end and take water that way.
I should mention that without their toungue they seem to have a hard time manovering the food around their mouth and will often get a feeder or pc of fruit stuck in there, mostly on the roof of the mouth.
How i removed this was to take a dry pc of a umbrella tree stem and use the little hooked end where the leaf was attached and gently remove the problem.
Sorry if any of this is confusing or vage.
Feel free to pm me with anything eles
