I'm so glad you took your chameleon to the vet and got some advice, I hope he is doing much better now!

I used to have some chameleons- they are extremely picky, can be labor intensive to care for and unfortunately it took me a few of the little guys to get the hang of it. We had a Senegal cham (he lasted about 6 months, died after getting a tail wound he couldn't quite recover from) a Carpet cham (I think we had him for about 3 months, couldn't get his living conditions just right and he bit it) and then a Parson's cham (he was sick when we got him and died within a week, those bastards).

Then I got a 3 week old Panther cham and raised him from about an inch long to a robust healthy 10 or 12" (plus tail). I still think of him as one of my greatest achievements
He loved to eat anoles (small lizards, I just let it go in the cage and let him hunt it) pinky mice and lots of crickets.

do you have a good drip system to get him water?
Dust his food w the supplements?


good luck with him, post some pics