A few days ago I posted up an emergency thread about my 7 month old Male Panther ingesting a rock. I had smaller polished rocks in his aboricola pot when he was a baby and planned on putting bigger ones in there after he reached a certain size. Well about 4 days ago I walked in and saw him grab up a rock and start chomping on it. I went to scare him hoping he would drop it but he just swallowed it right down. It looked to about 1/4-3/8 inch in size. DO NOT EVER PUT ROCKS THIS SMALL IN AN ENCLOSURE!!! All seasoned Cham owners will already know this, but to you beginners please follow that to the letter. Rocks of that size are fine when they are babies, but Chams grow up fast so just fore go smaller ones altogether. Use bigger rocks in your plant pots, like over an inch in diameter, preferably bigger. Anyway, the second he swallowed that rock I got out my shop vac and vacuumed out each and every last rock and replaced them with large round river stones that are well over an inch. I had a few members highly advise me to take him to the vet, but in my area herp vets are few in number and the ones we do have no jack about Chameleons. I am convinced I know more about Chams than they do. I have had 2 Chams die within 24 hours of taking them to my local vets who deal in "exotics". The long story short is I left my little dude alone, watched for his stools. He pooped everyday normally since he ate the rock and has been acting fine. I already told myself if he was producing no stools at all in about 3-4 days I would have taken him somewhere. So I fed him normally and I am happy to report he passed the rock this morning. I am one happy Cham dad
