Hi all,
I know absolutely nothing about chameleons - strictly snakes - but I have been corresponding with a woman in Urugay who keeps both snakes and chameleons. Today I received the following e-mail (note that English is not her first language):
"Now I need your advice urgently regarding of my male chamelon Calyptratus, he looks very melanchony and completely depressed.
He does not eat and he does not react neither in our hands nor with the female. We breed him very docile. they already had their first eggs laying and everything seemed to be OK.
They eat variety of meal: pinkis, cricket , larvae, snails, a plant of Kalanchoe which they like very much, fruit. They have a giant fish pool ( they are separated one of other), and they receive the sun directly through a thick net in a wall of the fish pool from the window.
They also have somre humidity. We water them several times per day. Now there are 9 days that he does not eat.
I tried to make him eat by force (crickets) in order he does not feel weak, and he eats, he swallowed very well.
he has not had problems to change the skin and it is not dehydrated, but he has the sunken eyes
he only regurgitated 2 times the big worms of the flour without digesting.
It seems that he does not have parasit, as the defecation is normal. and He has a pretty color , green and yellow.These are the sympton and data that I can provide you."
Below, there is a pic of the animal.
I would appreciate any advice - I'll alert her to this site.
Thanks much,
Neil
