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Bean Beetles as a feeder Pros and ConsI put them in the feeder run but nothing really contains them. They can climb anything. I haven't had a problem with them in my house and I feed...- JacksJill
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Bean Beetles as a feeder Pros and Cons@JacksJill great blog post! I really want to try these.. but question: do you just let them crawl about in the enclosure? on plants and such? Do...- Eileen
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A Tribute to Life: The Chameleon Who Never Gave UpI’m so sorry, Mia. Nachito was a special girl and will live on in your heart forever.- jannb
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A Tribute to Life: The Chameleon Who Never Gave UpAn absolutely beautiful tribute... I'm so glad I came here and read that - I'd been thinking about your girl and wondering if you had updates...- CalamityCrow
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A Tribute to Life: The Chameleon Who Never Gave UpThank you everyone for the kind words, while my heart is broken, I'm so glad to have the support of this amazing community. You all really are the...- Ghostbirb
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How to Do your Own FECAL FLOAT - VIDEO
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...- Dez
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Individual Baby Cages or Caging during the time of Covid
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...- JacksJill
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Jackson's Chameleon Articles and Studies
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. Articles 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...- JacksJill
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Intro to Bio-Activity
Introduction to Bio-Activity: As of recent times, a lot of folks have been asking questions, and for guides on Bio-active Enclosures. How to set them up, how to drain them, how they work, why they work. I figured it was good and Time, that someone sat down and made a Guide! I have been meaning...- cyberlocc
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Traveling with Chameleons
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...- ferretinmyshoes
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Water is the key to all living things. Unfortunately, dehydration is a common health risk faced by chameleons. Lack of water is not easily identified visually, but can have disastrous results. It is critical that you provide sufficient water in the "right" ways.
In nature, their water source...
This is to help out all new dubia owners on how to breed, feed and keep them happy!
TANK/BIN
Purchase a 6 to 10 gallon tank or plastic bin which can be picked up online, petco or target.
FOOD
Dubia's love cricket crack just like the crickets do. You can also feed them carrots, yams...
I thought I would post some details and info on my cricket setup. I buy 250 to 500 crickets at a time from Rainbow. So I built this handy cricket bin cause I was sick of buying crickets from petco at 11cents each.
CRICKET BIN
1.) Go to Target, Walmart, K-Mart or any store that sells Bins...
New photos of Sancho and Witchy!
Sancho is 8 1/2 months old and Witchy is a Year and two months old..
Sancho
see the rest here http://www.chameleonforums.com/sancho-outside-today-21767/
Witchy
see the rest here http://www.chameleonforums.com/witchy-my-veiled-21769/
Listing of all the food my chams have tried since I had them..
Sancho
1.) Silkworms
2.) Hornworms (doesn't like to much)
3.) Crickets
4.) House Flies
5.) Super worms (Get's addicted so keeping him off for now)
Witchy
1.) Silkworms (doesn't like to much)
2.) House Flies
3.) Crickets
4.) Dubias...
Friday: several small crickets (gutloaded and calcium dusted)
Saturday: 1 zophobas worm (calicum dusted)
Sunday: five small crickets (2 vitamin dusted, 3 calcium dusted) and 2 small mealworms (calcium dusted)
Monday: 5 or 6 small crickets (gutloaded and calcium dusted) and a butterworm...
Sunday March 1: one Cricket (vitamin dusted) and 2 small mealworms (calcium dusted)
Monday: 5 crickets (gutloaded and calcium dusted)
Tuesday: nothing
Wednesday: 2 Crickets (gutloaded and calcium dusted) and one hisser roach
Thursday: small hornworm, 1 phasmid
Friday: 1 mealworm, 2 small...
Keeping track of all dates my veiled witchy has had.
First laying - 12-30-2008, 11:31 PM - 40 Eggs
Witchy (Female) Veiled - (1-20-08)
Sancho (Male) Ambilobe Red Bar Panther - (6-20-08)
So much great info on these sites and in these chameleonforum threads!
http://www.chameleonnews.com/02JulCaettaKruger.html
http://www.chameleoncrazy.com/enclosure.php
http://www.chameleonforums.com/enclosure-wall-130279
http://www.ukchameleons.co.uk/housingintro.htm...
Offered and eaten by adult male panther chameleons this past week:
Sunday: Breakfast: 1 waxworm (calcium dusted); 1 cricket (gutloaded & calcium w/D3 dusted). Lunch: 2 crickets (gutloaded & calcium dusted); 1 zophobas (gutloaded & calcium dusted)
Monday: 3 crickets (gutloaded & calcium...
Today I was at the vet. I had three of my four Melleri checked out. The vet told me I was doing a good job and that I seemed to be doing a pretty good job handling the issues that have come up.
This got me thinking. I couldn't have gotten to this point without the support of my local keepers...
These are some pics of my ladies in the various stages of fertility. Perhaps it will help you decide if your lady is ready.
Day 1: five or six small crickets (gutloaded & calcium dusted); 1 butterworm (vitamin dusted)
Day 2: five or six small crickets(gutloaded & calcium dusted); small zophobas (gutloaded & cal w/D3 dusted)
Day 3: one or two roach nymphs (gutloaded); five or six small crickets (gutloaded &...
Sunday:
2 crickets (calcium dusted)
1 butterworm (vitamin dusted)
1 zophobas (calcium dusted)
Monday:
1 zophobas (calcium dusted)
Tuesday:
2 crickets (calcium dusted)
Wednesday:
1 Butterworm
1 zophobas
Thursday:
1 cricket (dusted with calcium)
Friday:
1 hisser
1 cricket...
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It is important to feed the prey insects well, in such a way as to ensure they provide the correction nutrients for your chameleon. This process is called gutloading the insects.
The "wet" portion of the gutload, which should be your principle gutload, can includes things like (switch it up...
A varied diet is usually the best diet! Aim not have any one feeder make up more than 20% of your chameleons diet, and certainly no more than 50%
Silkworm(Excellent, gutloadable, have an enzyme (serrapeptase) that may assist with calcium absorption, but another which may reduce Thiamine(B1)...
Monday Feb 9: 1 Zophobas morio (aka Kingworm aka superworm)
Tuesday Feb 10: 2 crickets (calcium dusted) in the morning, then a butterworm and a Turkish roach each for lunch
Wednesday: 2 small recently moulted mealworms (calcium dusted)
Thursday: 1 hornworm (light calcium) and 1 Turkish...
