My chameleon won’t open her eyes or eat

cass1dy

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Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - Veiled, female, around a year
  • Handling - Twice a day to give critical care and apply eye cream from vet
  • Feeding - she’s not eating, giving oxbow critical care
  • Supplements - an/A
  • Watering - We have a monsoon system that goes off three times a day for about 80 seconds
  • Fecal Description - little to no urates, have seen one black dried up one and recently a gooey one that looks boogerish with a detached white park
  • History - Adopted so I don’t know where she was purchased or Breeded from. Has seen vet twice already.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Screen
  • Lighting - I just replaced her bulb with a repta sun bulb. It’s brand new
  • Temperature - Her cage ranges in temperature from about 70-80*
  • Humidity - 60%
  • Plants - No live plants
  • Placement - Located in the corner of the game room. Little traffic, by a window that’s always closed and the blinds are always closed as well
  • Location - Killeen, Texas, United States

Current problem is that she’s not eating and spending all her time in the bottom of her cage. She’s not opening her eyes either. I can see them moving around under her eyelids, but she won’t open them. She hisses at me when I try to pick her up to give her her critical care. I don’t feel eggs, but I’ve had her for a while now and she’s never laid. We put eco earth mix with sand at the bottom of her cage and she doesn’t touch it. The vet gave us oxbow critical care and an eye cream to treat her. She has had one urate since then and it looked fine but she’s still not opening her eyes even with thy’all cream. She also seems small for her approx age.
 
The detached white part is her urate. Watering 3 times a day at 80 seconds is not enough. She need a basking spot of 85*. I don't understand your supplementation listed above, can you please elaborate.
 
The detached white part is her urate. Watering 3 times a day at 80 seconds is not enough. She need a basking spot of 85*. I don't understand your supplementation listed above, can you please elaborate.
My bad it’s N/A. She won’t eat so we haven’t been giving her any supplements
 

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Have you ever had a laying bin in her enclosure? She definitely is showing her gravid colors. If she is gravid she may be too weak to lay and is becoming eggbound but its worth trying to offer an adequate laying bin. From your post it sounds like you covered the bottom of her cage with eco-earth which is not going to trigger her to lay.

In the mean time, I would find a different vet... Your vets response of the cham "just giving up and preparing to die" is just lazy and a sorry excuse for his lack of knowledge.... Just my opinion so please do not take any offense.
 
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