Kinyongia matschiei

Last week I was lucky enough to pick up a pair of Chad Norton's (CNorton) CBB Kinyongia matschiei. I had been looking for some time for a new and exciting breeding project and luckily stumbled upon his for sale ad. I am extremely excited and lucky to be working with them! My plans are to breed and since these are siblings I will be doing my best to try to locate more to add to the project. I believe that there are at least two bloodlines in the country... I will be keeping my eye out for WC as well if/when they enter the country again. Now for the pictures. Please excuse the poor picture quality, they are only from an iPhone.

The female:


After just chomping down a dubia


The male, who did not take to living in a cage, now has run of my free range.


See if you can spot him... Gives you an idea of scale of the free range.


Action shot


Getting a shower


That longggg tail


Amazing scalation

Lizard room

Thought I would also share some pictures of my office/lizard room.

Coffee table tank I made for my Northern Australian Blue-Tongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides intermedia. He's 20 years old and I've had him for 18 years. Got him when I was 12.


Wide shot of the free-range


My white German Shepherd wondering why I'm not paying attention to him. Also, some of my other enclosures in the background.

Love it all! I hope the dog doesn't stress or hurt the chameleon but looks good I almost went with a pair from Chad when he messaged me on fb but I wanted a pair of rudis chameleons

I love the pic below the tongue shot. I always use to get that pose from my zilla.

Thezillaman21 said:

Love it all! I hope the dog doesn't stress or hurt the chameleon but looks good I almost went with a pair from Chad when he messaged me on fb but I wanted a pair of rudis chameleons

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Thanks. The dog has been around lizards since he was a tiny pup and has been taught to leave them alone. He ignores them at this point. The lizards don't seem to care much about him either. Thanks!

Thezillaman21 said:

I love the pic below the tongue shot. I always use to get that pose from my zilla.

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Thanks, very quizzical looking.

Last tuesday the female laid 11 infertile eggs. She did not attempt to dig but scattered them around the cage.



CNorton told me she laid another clutch barely a month before on December 8. I hope she slows down and doesn't wear herself out until I find an unrelated male for her to mate with. She does seem to be recovering well though although is not as ravenous as the male.