DerkaJeeHad
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So my Veiled has started going days without eating. He has gone days without moving, while sleeping during the day. I used to feed him small sized dubia roaches, large crickets, and superworms(occasionally). Since he hasnt been eating that good he hasnt been able to take in the amount of supplements that he needs. I do Calcium without D3 just about every feeding, D3 Calcium about once a month, and vitamins here and there. When my veiled does walk around he has his left eye closed shut, his right eye is open. It is not closed shut, he just keeps it shut. For whatever reason is beyond me. He has not been looking too good, and being the empathetic person I am I know somethings wrong with him. I just dont know what. I am seriously concerned, I will be taking him to an exotic vet soon. I will provide pictures of his enclosure.
And heres the more serious problem I am worried about: I pulled some long hard thing out of my chameleons rectum. It looked like poop or dry poop but it was hard, and it wasnt like left over stool from him going to the bathroom but he literally had something hard en-lodged into his rectum and it was sticking out. Me being me, I got my needle nosed plyers and attempted to pull it out SLOWLY. I didnt want to hurt my lil guy. And FYI, my cham has always been aggressive and this is the first time ever that he has let me touch him without him freaking out. He just sat there and accepted what I was doing because Im sure he knew I was trying to help the poor guy... but I eventually pulled this hard thing out of my chameleons rectum(pictures below). He seemed to feel better after that but Im sure thats not the problem because something else caused that hard "thing" to get lodged in his butt. Fed him some superworms until he stopped accepting them, he only ate superworms cause thats the only thing he was interested in at the time. Misted him down with some warm dechlorinated water, and put him back in his cage.
I currently have a UVB bulb, two heat bulbs (one daytime bulb and one night time bulb), and an automatic misting system which mists his cage every 2 hours for 14 seconds. Lights stay on for 12 hours exact, 7am-7pm. The bulbs are atleast 75watts, I do not know exactly due to me throwing away the boxes to the bulbs. Also, his water IS dechlorinated/detoxified.
His cage setup
http://imgur.com/MTJXz42
Sleeping during the day
http://imgur.com/eZWnIUM
Left eye is closed (rarely opens), right eye is open but not in picture
http://imgur.com/DQRJqGW
And the "thing" that came out of his butt
http://imgur.com/mlAYXdi
And heres the more serious problem I am worried about: I pulled some long hard thing out of my chameleons rectum. It looked like poop or dry poop but it was hard, and it wasnt like left over stool from him going to the bathroom but he literally had something hard en-lodged into his rectum and it was sticking out. Me being me, I got my needle nosed plyers and attempted to pull it out SLOWLY. I didnt want to hurt my lil guy. And FYI, my cham has always been aggressive and this is the first time ever that he has let me touch him without him freaking out. He just sat there and accepted what I was doing because Im sure he knew I was trying to help the poor guy... but I eventually pulled this hard thing out of my chameleons rectum(pictures below). He seemed to feel better after that but Im sure thats not the problem because something else caused that hard "thing" to get lodged in his butt. Fed him some superworms until he stopped accepting them, he only ate superworms cause thats the only thing he was interested in at the time. Misted him down with some warm dechlorinated water, and put him back in his cage.
I currently have a UVB bulb, two heat bulbs (one daytime bulb and one night time bulb), and an automatic misting system which mists his cage every 2 hours for 14 seconds. Lights stay on for 12 hours exact, 7am-7pm. The bulbs are atleast 75watts, I do not know exactly due to me throwing away the boxes to the bulbs. Also, his water IS dechlorinated/detoxified.
Please enlighten me!
Heres his current condition:
His cage setup
http://imgur.com/MTJXz42
Sleeping during the day
http://imgur.com/eZWnIUM
Left eye is closed (rarely opens), right eye is open but not in picture
http://imgur.com/DQRJqGW
And the "thing" that came out of his butt
http://imgur.com/mlAYXdi
