Of course, all animals require water to survive, and it isn't as simple as placing a bowl in the bottom and calling it a day. In fact, with most chameleons this will have little, if any benefit. Most chain pet stores display their chameleons with a water bowl, and this can be misleading to the...
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...
There are a number of ways to transport your chameleon to reduce stress. Whenever your chameleon needs to go in the car to the vet, or when you're moving, it can be nerve-wracking to make sure they are going to be okay during the stressful journey. Though chameleons have specific long term needs...
I'm always trying to find these links for people. Now anyone who is interested in knowing more about Jacksons chameleons can find them here.
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This is the caresheet from this site if you haven't seen it and you want to take care of a Jackson's Chameleon read it...
My first prototype
I was planning on using Exo-terra Nano glass cages for my baby cages but the supply chain issues we are all too familiar with made me get creative. Forum member, MeruJack, who I all but stalked on here when I was getting started used Nanos for her baby jacks and she had a...
During April, my primary gutload items have been: fresh green dandelion leaves, carrot, apple, yam (steamed), romaine, oranges and the last of my January dry gutload mix.
For May, I am still gonna be using a great deal of dandelion leaves, carrot, and I hope to have fresh young mustard greens...
I spent all last night redoing Bulbasaur's enclosure. He now has tons of colorful flowers. I am aware that some chameleons may find lots of colorful flowers bothersome, but he seems quite fine. At first he wandered around confused because his set up is very different than it was, but by the end...
Here is finally an update on Leo and Drakes' growth during the past several months. It's been a long winter here so they're both anxious to get some real sunshine this spring. At least I'm anxious for them. Leo's growth has been steady and he's leveled off pretty much at around 214 grams...
Today was more of the same from my Ambilobe. His left eye is still closed up I managed to get a few pics of it open and closed. I used Reptivite today and he ate 3 crickets and 1 superworm. I have him outside in the Florida sun and humidity and I'am misting a lot. I believe my supplementing...
Today I noticed my Ambilobe Panther Chameleon, Monster (unofficial name), has developed some sort of eye problem. His left eye was closed all day he only opened it once in front of me and I did not see any noticeable damage. With that being said, he ate two crickets, however, he did not move...
I've been on the hunt for supplies for my build. Being the son of a son of a sailor (Yea Jimmy Buffet), no wait a shop teacher, I have all the tools and wood. I get to use the tools for free, and the wood only cost's educators cost. I Haven't decided between walnut or cherry. The cherry will...
I've attached a pic of the design!!! It took me a while to figure out how to convert it to jpg. It's 100% to scale, it's a total of 6'9" tall 2'6'' Deep and 3' Wide. And The chameleon is also to scale as best as I can figure.
The two glass sections that are visible in the pic will have an...
Hey It's me again about 30 seconds after I posted the first Blog. Time to get in to the hard part. The design.
I'm putting this enclosure in the corner of a room, next to a tall dresser 2 and a half feet deep. The roof is 9 feet from the floor, but it has a 45 degree slant from the wall to...
Hey anyone reading this! I'm excited, just earlier today I became a full fledged Member! I've been wanting to do this blog for a while now detailing the undoubted long process of building my custom chameleon enclosure.
But first a little background on me. My name is Brent Steiner. I'm a...
This post isn't directed at anyone in particular... Unless you do any of the things that I mention in this post. Then it's directed at you. Right at you. Feel it. Feel it's burn on your flesh.
Now read on:
I've always been someone who frequents forums for whatever thing I happen to be...
This week has been rather awful. Mostly for personal reasons. I'm struggling to keep up in school and feeling down over it. And, of course, this week was the week I got my new male panther, and the week my female panther decided to lay. Most of my friends could not care LESS about chameleons, so...
I breath in the air, and it becomes a part of me. Travelling through my lungs, into my blood, fueling my thoughts and movements. And what I breath out passes to others, to trees who "breath" the CO2 and animals that take in the unused oxygen and such I didnt keep. A glass of water now in me, was...
Swyft is still being a brat about eating but he does eat. Just one superworm here and there. For awhile I am pretty sure he was eating gnats and flies that were in the room. (I have a natural turtle habitat and we tend to get bugs from that)
He drinks a lot, poops, and is active, and still...
If your chameleon closes it's eyes through the day, it may very well be a sign that the chameleon is sick. Healthy chameleons eyes are open and alert for the whole day - they are diurnal and only sleep when it gets dark.
Sadly, chameleons are often really sick by the time their owners notice...
on 2/17/2011 I fed my female Veiled her first and only pinky mouse. This was 2 days after she mated, I wanted to get her fertile before going through another infertile clutch lay. If some of you recall, Kiwi was recovering from gular edema due to a deficiency of Vitamin A & D from laying her...
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For all of you trying to find a good dripping system, here is an idea.
The challenge, a) don't want to poke the screen on top of my cages. b) don't want to spend much on it. c) The commercially existing ones are expensive and cheesy,
So here is what you need:
1. A soft plastic...
While crickets and roaches are very easy to gutload, and the ones most often talked about, dont stop there. Larva and other feeders should also be gutloaded as best as possible.
Silkworms are gutloaded on mulberry leaves, dandelion leaves, shaved carrot, organic sweet red pepper, grape...
I've had my chameleon for 3 weeks now. I've got him a pretty sweet little set up in my second bedroom in my apartment. He is in a large ReptiBreeze mesh/screen cage with a hibiscus plant, and some branches for him to climb on. I bought him a really branch-y one from LLL, and he LOVES it! He used...