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As a follow up note, Bertie’s appetite is back to normal. He’s been eating 2 or 3 adult size cockroaches a day (dubias and lobsters) and had a successful shed. His weight is a little low at 114 g, but is up from it’s low one week ago of 110 g. I don’t think I mentioned that 21\/2 weeks ago he had a vitamin b shot which helped to increase his appetite almost immediately following. Needless to say, I am very relieved he’s on the mend.<\/p>\n
05-23-2005<\/p>\n
Bertie is doing much better. I’ll try to spend more time explaining it later, but in short the Baytril and the Cimetidine have healed him. I’m going to step up my disinfecting routine to prevent future bacteriological infections, and hope for the best.<\/p>\n
Here is his second blood panel results<\/a>.<\/p>\n 05-02-2005<\/p>\n I am worried about my pet chameleon, Bertie. He hasn’t been his usually chipper self. <\/p>\n Bertie seems to be in an overall weakened state. He has the following symptoms:<\/p>\n Over the last week and a half, I’ve seen him eat only once. That was today, and it was a very small cockroach. He also sits on his stomach more now than he used to. See the picture below, taken today, after his vet trip.<\/p>\n {gallery [operation_bertie]}<\/p>\n He was lying on his stomach for a little while. He generally seems weak, which I’ll go into more detail below.<\/p>\n Besides his general weakness, and lack of hunger, I’ve also only seen him poop twice in the last week and a half. Once was Saturday during his weekly shower and once was today, at the vet. <\/p>\n Saturday’s stool had dark orange crystalline between the urates and the feces. I’ve noticed this before now, but it went away for a few months. I began giving him Pedialyte, thinking hydration may be the issue.<\/p>\n I took the feces to a vet on Saturday. They tested for parasites and found none.<\/p>\n I took him to the vet today (Monday). She took some blood. She also noticed that he had a weak grip. I’ll get the results of the blood work tomorrow. Until then, I’m supposed to see if he can eat any bugs on his own. If not, I need to feed him some meat based baby food using a syringe. I don’t want to do that.<\/p>\n I’ve provided some husbandry information below, in case it is an environmental thing. <\/p>\n If you have any suggestions, please comment on this below. <\/p>\n Thanks so much!<\/p>\n Species: Furcifer Pardalis {gallery [setup]}<\/p>\n Above you can see some general shots of the cage. Notice how there is no substrate.<\/p>\n {gallery [more_more_setup]}<\/p>\n Some more of my setup pictures. You can see how I disinfect the cage without hurting Bertram. Also one of my rat’s nest (there are more). And one of my hydrometer\/thermometers.<\/p>\n {gallery [hydor]}<\/p>\n Above you can see the heater that gets the mister water to the low 90’s F.<\/p>\n {gallery [feeder_containers]}<\/p>\n Here are a couple feeder containers. Notice how the roach containers has some slimy stuff on the sides. That’s vaseline. It keeps them from getting out and my landlord happy.<\/p>\n {gallery [more_feeders]}<\/p>\n Here’s where the bugs take up residence. A real “cricket inn”. Also you’ll se a picture of a silkworm that pupated into a moth. Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n {gallery [roaches]}<\/p>\n Some roaches in their home. One is giving birth to more roaches. Oh boy!<\/p>\n So there you have it. The only things that are suspect to this setup to me are the lights, which are 11 mo old. Otherwise, I think ol’ Bertie has it pretty good. If you have any suggestions of things I can do to improve his chances, please let me know.<\/p>\nSections<\/h3>\n
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\nLocale: Ambilobe \/ Sambava Morph
\nOrigin: Captive Bred, Pam’s Chams
\nAge: 11 months<\/p>\nHusbandry<\/a><\/h3>\n
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