The issue was found in the fecal, he went in for a check up and parasites were found. I advised what I wanted to do for treatment based off what input I got here and that’s what’s being done
Awesome! Sorry your chameleon had parasites, but at least you know what's going on and how to treat it. Hope this takes care of it! I wish I had a real reptile vet near me
I had an 18x18x36 for the guy I was treating. It is far easier to do a deep cleaning not to mention spot clean. It was actually my quarantine cage and I had a Dragon Strand on order which was supposed to be delivered a few weeks later. Very happy I had not gotten the DS first or I would have had to deal with full cleaning on a 2x2x4 hybrid.
Yeah as long as this doesn’t happen more than once I’ll be ecstatic
Did you hang onto the cage on the off chance you had to quarantine again?
No, I ended up literally throwing away everything after what happened. I was so afraid of any chance of cross contamination to Beman. When Bahari did not make it through treatment, I cancelled my DS order and threw everything from his set up away.
I’m assuming I’ll get a call today that meds have been sent over I missed a call today that the vet was confirming his weight as it didn’t make it into the chart when he was at the office
Where do you live?
Milwaukee Wi
Yeah they have to have the exact weight to make sure the dosing amount is spot on. NOTE it can be far less traumatic for the cham if you can inject the meds into a feeder like a dubia and then immediately feed him that insect. So I would ask about getting a needle and a syringe for it to do this. When you have to medicate and hold them to shoot the meds in the very back of the throat (airway is in the front of the mouth so you can easily aspirate them if not done right) it can revert them to where they will not have anything to do with your hands. The hands become a threat to them and they relate them to something negative.
The one thing about the quarantine I’m concerned about is that Iroh gets restless and goes down to the floor at times, he’d do this way more often when he was in an undersized cage with inadequate cover. I’m gonna have to watch him like a hawk to make sure I catch any poop shortly after it happens.
Yeah I can understand that stress quite well. I would give him the false feeling of being in plants by hanging fake vines all around the outside of the cage. This may help him feel more settled.
Yeah I’m going to do something similar to this.
Nope those are outside on top. Now for the surface the cage sits on you need to clean that. However your drainage works that is going to be another high risk exposure area. If you wet vac then your wet vac is contaminated as well.
Happy to hear the lighting should be good I was thinking maybe spray from my spray bottle hit it or something along those lines.
So unless dubia are contaminated by another source you do not see them carrying coccidia. Now here is another risk... If you were tossing any un eaten feeders from the cage back into your bins then you have high contamination risk.
The trip is just one and a half days, June 29th.
Just make sure you can be there for a 5 days after the 2nd dose to keep an eye on him. Hydration will be important while he is going through treatment along with keeping him eating... Will he cup feed with you holding a cup?
Yes he will. Not always with dubias though sometimes I have to put them on the mesh of his cage or hand/tong feed him those as they don’t have a lot of movement.
ok so try to get him to cup feed... Shake them around in the cup while he is looking at them. Do this method only right now. see if you can get him to fully transfer to this as it will be 10 times easier for you to not only medicate him but to ensure there is not potential for contamination since you are holding the feeding method and it has nothing to do with being in the cage.
