rgladu
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My cham, Zard, is ill. I have had him for 14 months now. He is a Panther cross and I have kept him in a large screened enclosure with Reptisun 5 lighting and a basking light. he stopped using his tongue several months ago and I have had to hand feed him. He will still take in water from a shower or from a spritzed plant, but mostly I have to hand feed and water him. Of course, he is starting to get weak. I took him to our reptile vet in Houston, and she recommended "carinivore care" - like a pablum, which I have been giving him. Up to the last few days he took it and he took in worms. However, He threw it up yesterday. He no longer will accept crickets. Despite my best efforts to hydrate him, his eyes remain sunken all day now and usually don't open. She also gave me flagyl and panacure to give him, but no help. His stool was free of parasites. He did have a necrotic mass at his anus, which I assume is a necrotic hemipenis, and I wonder if this is where the main problem is. I haven't seen him poop in several day, although he continues to make white urate crystal and excrete that. He is still strong enough to hold on to perches, but I think he is slowly getting weaker. The most interesting thing is that usually he is a green cham but he has turned orange for the first time and has not returned to the green color. This is my first cham, and I am a human physician, but am not sure what to do next for him. I'm not sure he'll recover from this tailspin. I imagine all of the hand feeding has probably stressed him. ANy advice?
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