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lazy veiled

stanleytl04 Apr 05, 2006 09:38 AM

My Veiled is a really light green color, and very listless. I have been feeding him water with a mixture of calcium and vitamin A out of an eye dropper. I found him lying on the bottom of his enclosure last night. He is never down there, also he allowed me to pick him up and he is usually veyr onry. He seems to be a little more alert now. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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veiledbrian Apr 05, 2006 10:54 AM

The same suggestion everyone else is probably going to give you: Take him to a vet.
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lele Apr 05, 2006 11:11 AM

no one can diagnose the problem any more than you can from that description and as Brian said, a vet is your answer. Giving him Ca and Vit A w/o knowing what the problem is could do more damage. I'd get him to a vet ASAP.

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kinyonga Apr 05, 2006 11:09 AM

Why vitamin A?? Vitamin A can be overdosed quite easily. Vitamins D and A build up in the body whereas most other vitamins if not needed just pass through.

From the behavior you are describing, I think this chameleon needs to see a vet ASAP.

If you provide us with details of your husbandry (temperature, feeding, supplementing, lighting, etc.) we could see if anything needs to be changed to help your chameleon (in addition to the vet visit).

Here are some articles that may give you some incite into the vitamin/calcium/health of chameleons...
http://www.chameleonjournals.com/vet/
http://adcham.com/
http://www.chameleonnews.com/index.html

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