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Mistakes: The Best TeachersJust came across this, good on you for taking on the duty of learning everything to help Rango live a good life. When I came home from work one...- Lucas00-
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Dubia Roach Ranch Setup 101Looking at starting my own Roach Ranch. Awesome write up, thank you!!
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A Tribute to Life: The Chameleon Who Never Gave UpI am brand new to the group and I love this tribute. I lost my mom on February 6 and I think us getting a chameleon is a sign. Hugs!
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Mistakes: The Best TeachersWe’re all a little weird in our own beautiful way. I’m so glad that you kept Rango and have been making the needed changes for him, rather than...- MissSkittles
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Free-range inspirationI had the setup for my Jackson’s, in the beginning they will escape, but that stops over time once they feel that tree is there best place in the...- Sonny13
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Free-range inspiration
Some inspirational thoughts for free ranging First, our living room is a large, bright (views on both sides) and pet free living room without small children walking around. Second, the free-range area is at exact the same spot as where a Reptibreeze XL (24´x24´x48´) stood. Many assume...- Sonny13
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World Chameleon Species Tour: Trioceros pfefferi
Welcome to another installment of our World Chameleon Species Tour! Today we are in the Cameroon highlands with Trioceros pfefferi. Natural History: Trioceros pfefferi is a small size chameleon around the size of a carpet chameleon. It is listed as living between 1100m to 1900m by the IUCN...- DeremensisBlue
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Egg Laying and the Laying Bin
I free range my chameleons so I really have to pay close attention to when it’s time to lay eggs. I think one of the most important things is to have a gram scale and weigh her once a week. If she's gaining and you are still feeding the same amount of food then I figure she must have eggs. You...- jannb
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The Philosophy of Gutloading PART 1.
The Philosophy of Gutloading Acknowledgements I would like to thank Anthony Herrel and Walter Tapondjou for their helpful advice on where to look for relevant papers. 1. Introduction Recently, it was suggested to me that our current gutloading practices might be wrong-headed. In particular, I...- Kaizen
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Veiled Chameleon Laying 101
Hi and congratulations on having a beautiful girl veiled chameleon. These little sweeties are near and dear to my heart, and I’ve learned from some of the very best keepers on the forum how to care for them and effectively manage their reproductive health. Now I’m passing that knowledge on to...- MissSkittles
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So it was asked if I was still using the same supplementing schedual for my quads, and I thought I should include the response here.
I still very much like the repashy CP but have found that the levels of vit d and vit A are still a little too high. ( reg repashy cal plus formula )
I have...
Prey intake diary of my adult male panther chameleons, July 2013. All prey is gutloaded except the wild caught moths, although the grasshoppers and butterworms didnt eat much.
Supplements, when used, are also noted. “50-50 mix” means I take a spoonful of Mineral-O (the vitamin free calcium...
This is daily a log of what my ~2 month old veiled consumed in July 2013. He was typically given as much as he could eat within about 5 minutes, once or twice a day. Prey is listed in the order in which it was offered and eaten.
The cockroaches are small –medium size. The superworms are...
So I have seen a lot of question lately about the nutritional value of the feeders we are using or wanting to see a comparison of certain feeders so I took some time and created this chart so that you can have all this information right in front of you. There maybe some slight errors because I...
This is a superworm.
Specifically, they are the larvae of the "darkling beetle".
How to house them
Step 1
Superworms can be kept in practically anything. I've gotten away with keeping them in tupperware.
Here is a picture list of containers you may keep superworms in.
1...
hi im kinda new to this forum i have 1 chameleon, used to have two but one died :(,and right now im in a panic about the other!!!!:eek: so, shes been really thin even though i feed her on a daily basis and shes been this weird skeleton looking color. its really scary for me. shes this bright...
I wish I could post some more pictures of Oliver, but sadly, I lost my camera's charger.:eek: Luckily we found a cheap one on amazon that we ordered! So hopefully I will be able to share some pics soon. :)
So today as usual, I went in at 2:45 (usually 2:30, but I wanted to finish eating lunch), and tried to hand feed (not so) little Oliver. He seemed REALLY interested in the worm I was holding, so I held it there a little longer than usual (about 6-7 minutes). He just kept staring at it so I...
Oliver seems much less afraid lately! I've been using some advice given here on the forums, and now he doesnt seem so afraid of me.
In the past, whenever I would open his cage door, Oliver would cower and find some place to hide. I would walk in to look at him, and he would stop what he was...
Zeppelin came into our lives one week ago. He is a healthy panther ambilobe male. I hope to post updates about him and things I learn along the way. He is my first chameleon and am proud to be his momma!
Our first day was a busy one. He spent most of his time on a bamboo branch in his cage. He...
Intestinal Parasites are common in chameleons and other reptiles. Wild caught chameleons have a reputation of having intestinal parasites..although this is true , parasites can effect Captive bred as well as Wild caught Chameleon.
A chameleon may have parasites but not show any symptoms...
Poppi is doing much better now.
No lasting issues after the egg laying. I upped her calcium for 2 weeks but she is back to her regular supplement schedule.
Her eyes are both clear and seem to be working fairly well. Thank goodness. She was keeping that one eye closed for so long I was...
This blog entry is to give an idea of how I make my insect gut load for cheap. It is made from stuff I used to throw away.
I've been a vegetarian for the past seven years. About four years ago I started juicing after watching the movie, "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead".
Anybody that has...
So, I came across a thread by Hoj one day, and it was one of the best I've seen for getting us to question what we "think" is the right way to do things. For those of you who want a good read and may want to add to the debate here is the...
A log of what my adult panther chams each ate.:)
01 Apr, Monday--4-5 termites, wild caught but kept for several weeks prior to being fed off. No supplement. Also, 1 large cricket, gutloaded and calcium dusted.
02 Apr, Tuesday--2 superworms. Gutloaded and dusted with a 50-50 mix of Repashy...
Apart from potentially being salty, its a good addition to a varied gutload regime.
Nutrients in 100 Grams
79.99 g Water
3.03 g Protein
0.5 g Fiber
150 mg Calcium, Ca
2.18 mg Iron, Fe
107 mg Magnesium, Mg
80 mg Phosphorus, P
50 mg Potassium, K
872 mg Sodium, Na
0.38 mg Zinc, Zn...
Today started off as a normal day. Waking up early, turning on his lights and give him is breakfast and his morning misting. The day went on and I checked on him here and there. Nothing out of the norm, just the regular hissing and gaping as I misted and checked his temperatures, until I opened...
I have been very sad having to deal with the loss of my chameleons. I feel like someone has ripped out my heart not just once but multiply times. At first I was in shock and denial then anger and depression. Since tax season is over I am staying busy to keep my mind off everything but it’s still...
At a year and a month, Poppi laid 34 eggs! So we have survived the egg laying, so far...
She has not been doing as well as I could hope. She has been to the vet because she is keeping one eye closed all of the time. Doc thinks maybe she got some sand in it and that it got a bit infected...
So as Daylight Savings has arrived, it is time to rethink my lighting schedule. Days are getting longer, and this time of year I tend to have the doors and windows open. This can be a challenge keeping the humidity levels where I want, so along with my lighting times, I am also experimenting...