Hello just wonder if any lucky people have kept/bred Furcifer labordi??Mr anderson??
Would love to find out a bit more info on them and some images would be excellent!!

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I take it no one has any of these gems then thats a shame.

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Of the people I know who were able to get them back in the day, I always heard they were very secretive and difficult to establish. They were also very rarely imported up to the suspension in 1994. I wanted to try them back then but didn't have the cage space the one time I saw them for sale in person. There's some cool male/female labordi footage in The Living Edens: Madagascar special. It's a very well produced film if you haven't seen it. There's a bunch of copies on Ebay now too.

Only just seen this,Thankyou for your reply!! i thought as much i have heard they are very hard to obtain,i was offered some at the last hamm reptile fair but i did not bother wish i did now they were WC animals,but my interest in them is growing,i will try to get some at the next show

link

http://www.bluechameleon.org/Mad%20-...20vertical.jpg

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Wow! They had wild caught labordi for sale?? I've heard that the suspended Malagasy species are much more readily available in Europe, but do they just openly sell smuggled animals at the shows? What else have you seen available?

I have a list..this is from last time tho


Calumma
parsonii £600
parsonii cristifer £950globifer £350.-
oshaughnessyi £900.-
nasuta £180.-

Furcifer
lebordi £550.-
balteatus £900.-
bifidus £900.-
minor £190.-
willisii £220.-
campani £150.-
brivicornis £550.-
antinema £550

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Do you know if these animals are legally imported from Madagascar or not. I'm not sure if it's the same in the states.

That is unbelievable! I had no idea it was like that.... So, any idea how they get there? Does Germany just not enforce international wildlife laws? It is a CITES member country, after all. Is it that export permits list them as Chamaeleo labordi, rather than Furcifer labordi which is restricted and the agents checking imports don't know they're the same? Even if they were not imported through the proper channels, there is no way people would sell those species in public here, like at a show, because of US Fish and Wildlife.

I would think the prices would serve as a good indicator as to whether or not they were legally imported. Well, this has me all fired up so I'm gonna start a new thread....

I have been to Hamm the last 8 years,never missed a show. I have NEVER EVER seen one of the listed chams,and I am there early before opening doors,when only breeders are there.Now and then you can get a parsonii,globifer ,maybee a minor or a cristifer ,but thats about it from the list. If you would try to sell one of them you would walk out in handcuffs..There is no way you will see these on the tables,maybee under them...
Im going to take my camera next show in december..

Pardon the intrusion to this forum, I am not a chameleon breeder/keeper per se. But I would be remiss if I did not comment on this thread, which I found by happenstance.

First, I'm very disappointed in the desire of some individuals to support the collection of an IUCN Redlisted species. F. labordi are not legal to export out of Madagascar, regardless of the country of destination, without the proper export and import permits. I can't describe how many hoops I had to jump through just to get CITES permits to export blood samples of this species, so I suspect that nearly 100% of them you find in the pet trade are illegal.

Second, this is a very poor candidate species for captivity. They are an annual species, living for only about 4-5 months during the wet season. It is no surprise that historically when they were legal to export, they were extremely difficult to keep alive for more than a few months. Most people chalked this up to poor husbandry practices, but we now know it's simply a part of their life history.

My completely bias advice is to avoid spending a large sum of money on a chameleon that will not live very long for you in captivity, and at the same time, you would not be supporting the demise of this fragile species. Given its unique life history, you can imagine that large population disturbances (like collectors taking them) before reproduction can result in catastrophic population declines.

I know they are beautiful animals, and I understand the desire to see them and actually have one to admire on a daily basis, but this species simply is not an ideal one for you. Sorry I am not the bearer of better news.