MY CHAMELEON’S HORN IS SWOLLEN
- Thread starter kayleek
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You need to post a video to a secondary platform like youtube then share the link here.
You can use the attach files to post pics.
This would be helpful. A Veiled chameleon does not have a horn. So I am not sure what exactly your talking about. Maybe the casque?
You can use the attach files to post pics.
This would be helpful. A Veiled chameleon does not have a horn. So I am not sure what exactly your talking about. Maybe the casque?
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
Welcome to the forum. This kind of question is best posted to the Health Clinic forum (perhaps a moderator will move this thread there). For best results, copy/paste the questions (and your answers) from the How to ask for help thread in the shaded area at the top of that forum.
Haley Hendrix
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This chameleon needs a vet with reptile experience preferably chameleon experience. Looks like an infection in the casque maybe from a thermal burn. Could be an abscess. This really is not something you can leave untreated.
Please fill out the help form with detail so we can assist with husbandry changes and take pics of the entire enclosure lighting down.
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
+1.
I am not a vet, but it appears to me that that is an infection, and may require antibiotics.
kayleek, Please take your cham to a herp vet.
There are threads in the shaded green area at the top of the of the Health Clinic section that can help you find a herp vet near you.
Kaizen
Chameleon Enthusiast
Get a reptile thermometer with a probe; put the probe on or just above the main basking branch, wait a few minutes, then check the temp...should be 80-85. Then, put the probe at the closest point to the bulb that your chameleon can reach. Temp should be less than 95. Again, your Sunray is not a good bulb if you don’t own a solar meter.
Did they say it was an infection or a burn? How did they treat it? It is not normal for their casque to just swell up like that.
Haley Hendrix
Avid Member
Please fill out the help form so we can help you perfect your husbandry to make sure this dosent happen again.
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