Possible Injury?

[reptileguy112]

I had a piece of driftwood on a scale to put my chameleon on to weigh it and I it walked to the edge of the wood while I wrote down that it was 61g and the wood became unbalanced and it fell about 3 feet down. I am not sure if any of the wood got the chameleon. This happened 4 days ago and I am setting up a check up but the reptile specialist are only here once a week and I missed him 2 days ago. The chameleon looks fine, eats fine (even got a nibble of my finger the other day during handfeeding), and has white urates. She has been staying out of the basking spot lately and today I found her on the bottom of the cage on flat surface and she is showing some darker colors. She climbed right up my arm after the fall but she has been acting weird and really slow lately and she was hanging upside down on a branch the other day and seemed like she didn't mind. Do you guys she any obvious signs that I don't that say something is wrong?? Thank you for replies.

 

[ryanbaxter]

How old is the chameleon ?

 

[ryanbaxter]

Has she layed eggs ?

 

[reptileguy112]

Just took this pic, wouldn't stop trying to shoot at my fingers even though it got 5 mealworms today.

 

[reptileguy112]

I have had her for 6 months and she looked to be 3-4 months old when I got her (I asked for a boy and they gave me a girl). She has not had eggs and started this behavior after she fell. She has a 1:2 coconut husk and sand mix egg bucket and if she doesn't like that most of the ground coverage is pots with dig-able soil to lay eggs.

 

[reptileguy112]

Here is another pic.

 

[ThePantherBaron]

Female chameleons can act odd for lots of reasons. But most common we find it is when they are ready to lay eggs. Signs of this is showing darker colors and being on the bottom of the cage as well as not eatting. Of course we always advise a vet first. You could try putting her in a laying bin and see if she will lay eggs. Or massage her belly and see if you can feel tiny marbles in her. Its not easy to feel for infertile eggs, even for the expert.

 

[reptileguy112]

I really don't think this is because she is gravid because she didn't do this before and started to do it right after she fall all the time. jmho