Please Help!

[jimmybones55]

I am an experience Chameleon keeper and have breed veiled chameleons, these chameleons are kept in 4'x2'x2' screen enclosures with many safe live plants, reptisun UVB 5.0 lights and basking lights(basking area 85-89 degrees). With 2-3 mistings daily.
My male 4 month old chameleon developed this Odd white spot, I had to go away for the weekend and when i came back. I found him dead on the floor of his cage . he had no visable problems this spot had turned black and he had a yellowish patch on the bottom of his abdomen near his rear legs.

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Now my female (his sister) who was exposed to him, has a black patch that looks similar to a bruise. Could this be a fungal infection? I really don't want to lose both these chameleons. I have raised them from the egg.
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[zlew]

best advice is go to the vet, and you should NEVER leave your chameleon for more than a day. Since they can have speedy health problems, you always want to have someone checkup on them.

 

[Carlton]

best advice is go to the vet, and you should NEVER leave your chameleon for more than a day. Since they can have speedy health problems, you always want to have someone checkup on them.

I agree...a vet can test for infections or possibly do some sort of scan to see if the discoloration is actually a sign that something's going on internally. Did you necropsy the male? Without knowing why he died its going to be very difficult to determine if the female has something contagious, its a simple coincidence, a sign of a larger husbandry problem, or what.

BTW, you CAN leave a cham alone for a day or so as long as it has water and correct temps and humidity set up ahead of time. They don't need to eat every single day unless they are fast growing babies.

 

[jimmybones55]

Thank you for the advice. I did not necropsy the male. I really should have. I did check him for any obvious causes of death, he did not choke on anything, and was not impacted or dehydrated. Already taken the female to the vet for biopsy. I have no one to check up on my chams for the day and a half I was away(I moved several hours away recently). However I have completely automated lighting and misting system and left plenty of gutloaded cricket in a container within the cage.

 

[zlew]

Oh, just a day and a half. I thought we were talking a whole weekend.

 

[camimom]

Oh, just a day and a half. I thought we were talking a whole weekend.

Ive left my chams for a whole weekend and they've been fine.

sometimes sh*t happens.

my chams are on an auto mister and an auto timer, so since they are all adults, they get fed the day before, and I feed them the day I come home.

its totally ok, unless of course its babies,