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 Can i have a opinion

since my chameleon died i have been thinking if i should get a new chameleon.Me and my friend had veiled chameleons but both of them died.my died of parsites taht was not treatable and his died because of eggboud because he got it from retiledepot.it was suppose to be a male but when i went to see it for the first time and i could see it was a female it died a few days later from eggbound.what do you guys think i should do we think we want a new cham.what do you think
08/06/08  08:08pm

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 Can i have a opinion

I know you had a lot of problems with your cham. I seem to remember you posting a pic when you first got him and he had those lumps on his sides that looked like broken ribs to me (and perhaps to Jonas, too). I remember we expressed our concern then but don’t remember what they turned out to be, or if you contacted the breeder as I remember we suggested.


Then I recall you had an eye issue with him. (March post, I believe). You called it a "reptil prolaps" and said a vet had given you antibiotics for it and cleared it all up. Honestly, I have never heard of a "reptil prolaps" as it applies to an eye problem, so I still don’t know exactly what that was.

Then in May, he still had an eye problem (you found something in it, sprayed it and some odd material came out) and also you said he also had a mouth ulcer. You said you gave him more anitibotics, but it got worse. You never said what kind of antibiotics or what the cause of the mouth ulcer or eye problem was.

Then he died of parasites you said the vet advised you he’d carried since you first got him, which would have been very nearly a year, at least.
It’s rare that a CBB cham will carry parasites, so I was curious as to how the vet determined that 1) he had parasites and 2) that he actually had them at the time you purchased him. Very odd.

With the exception of the parasites, all the problems you had could be attributed to either a genetically weak cham or husbandry problems (and even parasites can be attributed to husbandry).

Your friend also had a cham that died as a result of eggbinding. Unfortunately, that can’t be blamed on Reptile Depot. Veiled chameleons are the very easiest of chams to sex practically right from hatching. If your friend did not know he/she had received a female right off the bat, then your friend did not do the proper research upon purchase or receipt. If the cham truly died eggbound, then your friend really did not research as female Veileds show obvious pattern/color changes, exhibit nesting behavior and eggs are visible when developing inside a female.

You already know chams are difficult to care for, so the ultimate decision will have to be yours. Perhaps before you get another, you need to make certain that still have the time, the $ and all the proper equipment (that includes feeders, good natural gutload, supplements, etc) for another cham. Unfortunately, chams are not as forgiving of husbandry mistakes and short-cuts as other hardier reptiles.



08/07/08  12:33am


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