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I have a juvenile male panther chameleon who has recently become dehydrated. I have increased his drip, I am misting him extra, and I have showered him a few times, and added a humidifier to the room, but he is not improving. I think the shower stresses him out too much and he won't drink in it. He used to drink right from the dripper every morning when I turned it on full, but now he will not.

I have decided to start shooting water into his throat with a syringe. I did this this morning, and he seemed to immediately become more alert.

My question:
How much water can he have at one time, and how often?

I got this chameleon in great condition, and a female who was dehydrated and underweight due to excessive egg laying. The woman I got them from was told that females are supposed to look like that, and was unaware that her chameleon was unhealthy. She took her to the vet before giving her to us. One of the things the vet prescribed was Carnivore Care, a powdered substance to be mixed with .6 cc of water, given 2x daily. The female is now doing very well, slowly gaining weight and eating and drinking regularly. She is not showing signs of dehydration. (She likes the shower)

Anyway, I have a bunch of leftover Carnivore Care, so Mr. Chameleon will be getting his nutrition, and this will account for two .6 cc doses of water daily. I am assuming that .6 cc is an acceptable amount of water to give him at one time since the vet prescribed it, but I need to know how often he can have this.

I apologize for the painfully long story, but I want answers, not people asking me more about the situation.

Thanks!
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Ball Pythons:
1.2 Normal
1.2 Pastel
0.1 Black Pastel
2.0 Het Orange Ghost
0.1 Orange Ghost
1.1 Mojave
1.2 Spider
1.1 Albino
0.1 Het Albino
1.0 Piebald
0.1 Double het, Albino Pied
0.2 50% Het Orange ghost
Other:
0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Tiger Retic
1.1 Burmese Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
3.3 Corn Snakes
0.0.1 American Alligator
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Argus Monitor
1.0 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Brown Basilisk
1.1 Ambanja Panther Chameleons
2.5 Crested Gecko
0.1 Sulcata Tortoise
1.1.1 Sugar Gliders
1.1 Puppies

if you want answers then you need to supply more info , sounds like more than just dehydration to me, i would say a fecal is in order

The temperature in the room is between 80-84 degrees during the day, and drops to the mid 70s at night. For the last 5 days the humidity has been around 65-75 percent. Before that is was generally right around 65 percent, until we had a dry spell and it dropped drastically. He is still eating a little. At this point he seems more interested in wax worms that crickets. He is also spending a lot of time with his eyes closed. He is not sleeping a ton, he just has his eyes closed. That made me think stress, but he shows no other signs of stress and he had been thriving in his current conditions for over a month before in signs of him falling ill occurred. My only thought is that there was a day a couple weeks ago when it was incredibly hot and dry and the window in their room ended up open and was left open all night. So, he spent about 8 hours sitting 4 feet away from an open window. The temps weren't low that night. It was just dry. After that night seems to be when the dehydration started setting in.

Today I am starting him on some pedialyte.

He is about 6 months old. If you nave any thoughts other than dehydration, I would love to hear them.
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Ball Pythons:
1.2 Normal
1.2 Pastel
0.1 Black Pastel
2.0 Het Orange Ghost
0.1 Orange Ghost
1.1 Mojave
1.2 Spider
1.1 Albino
0.1 Het Albino
1.0 Piebald
0.1 Double het, Albino Pied
0.2 50% Het Orange ghost
Other:
0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Tiger Retic
1.1 Burmese Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
3.3 Corn Snakes
0.0.1 American Alligator
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Argus Monitor
1.0 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Brown Basilisk
1.1 Ambanja Panther Chameleons
2.5 Crested Gecko
0.1 Sulcata Tortoise
1.1.1 Sugar Gliders
1.1 Puppies

He didn't look any better this morning after a full day of hydration. I gave him some Pedialite this morning, and took him to the vet this afternoon. Her only thought as to why he would go downhill so fast was parasites. We got him some de-wormer and baytril. He died shortly after we got home.

The female is still doing great and ate close to 20 crickets today. We are going to de-worm her just in case.

I hate chameleons for how fast they can perish. You never know whether or not it is worth spending the money for the vet since it's probably too late already.
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Ball Pythons:
1.2 Normal
1.2 Pastel
0.1 Black Pastel
2.0 Het Orange Ghost
0.1 Orange Ghost
1.1 Mojave
1.2 Spider
1.1 Albino
0.1 Het Albino
1.0 Piebald
0.1 Double het, Albino Pied
0.2 50% Het Orange ghost
Other:
0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Tiger Retic
1.1 Burmese Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
3.3 Corn Snakes
0.0.1 American Alligator
1.0 Savannah Monitor
0.0.1 Argus Monitor
1.0 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Brown Basilisk
1.1 Ambanja Panther Chameleons
2.5 Crested Gecko
0.1 Sulcata Tortoise
1.1.1 Sugar Gliders
1.1 Puppies