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Hi Eve - and any one who might remember me - it's been a looooooooooonnnnnnnngggggg time!!!! I'm still around, just don't do forums much anymore, Eve I'll have to update you on Cyrus and Darwin sometime, but for now I need some blotchie/general tail loss advice.

For those who don't know (most don't) side-blotched lizards are about the size of house geckos and easily as fast. My Stan has a beautiful blue tail, especially when he is a'courtin his girl Ana and I often have to separate them (poor girl has ti bury herself in the sand to get away! Well, for the first time we had an accident and Stan's tail broke. I used silvadine and made a little Band-Aid out of toilet paper and kept him in a plain enclosure (they live in sand) and all seemed well then yesterday I just used betadine and I guess b/c it was dry it was more brittle and when I got home today it was broken off I am so bummed. I do not know if blotchies regenerate their tails or not.

SO, my question is this - should I leave it alone and just let the air do it's thing, or use silvadine for a few days or use betadine? I don't know if keeping it moist with the ointment is best. I cannot reach ANY vet so I turn to you. I figure Eve, and/or others have surely had this experience with their lizards. I will of course keep him out of any sand until he is completely healed and will go to the three blotchie experts to find out about tail regeneration. Lou, if you are reading this fell free to email me!

thanks!
lele

here are some pics of his beautiful tail before

and here it is broken. he's at an angle in both shots so you can't tell just how long it is but he lost about 1/3

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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

Hi lele, geesh... funny I was just thinking about you last week while checking the chameleon forum. Glad to see ya Sorry to hear your handsome blotchy dropped his pretty blue tail that is so common for them in the wild as they have so many big guys and snakes after them for a meal.

Anyway they do regenerate their tails , just not as nice or as long as the original. Funny how some do and some don't. I have a desert iggy who dropped his about 5 years ago, and his grew back even longer than original, just has no nice color or pattern to it. Don't really matter as he is pretty anyway.

I also have a female granite spiny, gorgeous, who lost hers (I was bummed) and never has grown back.

Nice to hear the couple is doing well though other than the tail.

What have you been up to, and yes fill me in on the other kids, lol.
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PHEve / Eve

I usually use neosporin or a triple antibiotic ointment on the end until it heals. You can also dab it with the benedine/povodine to clean, then apply ointment. A few days to a week and it should be good.
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PHEve / Eve

Hi Eve - thanks. I'll dab some betadine (povo) on his tail tonight while he's groggy with sleep and then some ointment, too.

Cyrus has a mass in his head. We found it in Feb. He had been having problems but I was attributing it to other things (falling due to toenail loss when he was a screen climbing baby, thrashing after drinking due to aspirating, but I couldn't figure out why he kept aspirating other than it seemed he gulped his water). Then one day I out him on the ground to see how he was walking and sure enough he kept turning right or circles but not straight for very long and never left. We went to the vet that afternoon, x-ray and saw something not right. Tried antibiotics in case there was infection - no response, tried steroids in case inflammation - no change. So short of exploratory surgery or MRI we don;t know what it is. I have made is cage "handicap accessible" but seems I am always changing it. Sometimes he sleeps on the bottom (it's padded with 12" of bubble wrap then covered in paper towels) or in his vet box on his side. You should see the pics I have of him!! He's had hospital beds, little blankest to prop him up at night so he doesn't fall from his perch. All in all he is doing great! So he may be with me another 5 years, 5 months, 5 weeks. He is still an absolute sweetie. I do end up with doozies!!

Darwin (beardie)- my love, my problem child. Still a problem eater, may have the adenovirus (you may recall he is a translucent which are prone) but I have decided not to get him tested since there is nothing I can do. I am moving into a new place soon and he will be in a high traffic area so I am hoping that will help him out some, too

So do you still have Cadberry?

Thanks for the tail info -
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

I'm really sorry to hear of Cyrus's problem, seems it's always something hunh. Poor thing, he is a handsome boy no matter what his problems and has an awesome loving MOM,
Yeah, you have had to deal with some SPECIAL kids that's for sure. Miss Luna, how can we forget thaqt sweetheart.

I know, I have my share of disabled cuties too. I do indeed still have Cadberry, Tyler told me awhile back that my Cadberry was considered an old man at 4 and made me sad saying they do not last that long. Thanks Tyler, lol.
I did lose his mate Coconut, she became eggbound shortly after they mated and did not make it. after seeing what she went through I decided to just NOT get another female. Maybe someday.

Anyway keep me updated with Cyrus and Darwin, sorry to hear that news as well. But maybe he will do okay, lets hope so.

Everything else good? Your moving? Thought you just moved a short time ago?

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PHEve / Eve

wrong dimentions, sorry bout that everybody, will take awhile to load up.
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PHEve / Eve

nah - big pics are good! He still is a beauty! Hard to believe the ol' Cad is 4! Tyler's always been great for saying things to make ya feel real good! - stinker! I sure do remember Coconut, just this morning her name popped into my head and I remembered that adorable pic with the acorn hat!(?) Very sorry to hear about her I made the same decision after Luna. With all her trouble I decided not to get another female. So far so good with my little blotchie Ana banana (though we had a weird winter with her chasing and biting Stan - long story, never a dull moment, huh??) She's getting chunky again and I had brought the Hova Bator (Cyrus won a photo contest on another - um, ah, can i say it f-r-m, and I bought one with the winnings ) to my storage center and had to remember to pick it up yesterday. SO I may have little blotchies in a couple months or so - interested???

I love my boys and will care for them no matter what. Whether Darwin has adeno or not he's never been a good eater, high energy sort of beardie. I'm hoping the move might stimulate him some. He is pretty funny though now. he turned 3 in Feb and it was like flipping a switch. In the morning he will puff his beard a bit, maybe do a head bob or two. Then go back to his usual hum drum ways.

Well, gotta go see if I can get Cy to eat hornworm or something...
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

I know we're not on the cham forum, but...my 13 year old neighbor gave me this cool metal chameleon and when I could still let Cy roam his Jungle Gym I snapped these.

I'll get you

now the tables are turned!

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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

I don't think the good people here mind a chameleon pic or 3 , hehehhehee, I love the metal guy, cool gift, neat shots lele. Cyrus does not seem to mind the big metal dude, hehehhee.

Take care buddy, don't be such a stranger, let em know how the blotchies do .
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PHEve / Eve