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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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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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Basic info on Misting and fogging...
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...- Decadancin
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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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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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Thursday:
1 stick insect and 1 butterworm each for breakfast, nothing else the rest of the day
Friday:
Breakfast was 3 crickets (calcium dusted)
Late Lunch was a big fat silkworm.
Summoner12 posted this marvelous DIY misting system. You don't even have to be very handy to make one.
http://www.chameleonforums.com/diy-hd-auto-mister-18660/
http://skylab.org/~chugga/cricket/
This is the best site that I have found online. It has many pictures and specific instructions.
Monday: 1 kingworm (dusted with calcium with D3)
Tuesday: 1 small M Hissing Roach
Wednesday: 1 butterworm, 1 cricket (calcium dusted)
Breakfast: Kingworm (dusted with vitamins and Calcium)
Lunch: Silkworm
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/cornflakep3/Chameleon%20Pics/Cage%20Setup/IMG_9379.jpg
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http://www.chameleonforums.com/my-enclosure-19933/#post169360
There are some good places online to search out, try Google. That's how I found out how to do it. Anyway, here are some directions.
Get some nice plump worms at the pet store. Put them in some oatmeal (raw please) with a chunk of potato. Let them eat and poop for at least two weeks.
Get...
The cultures themselves don't really go bad. It's the media that either gets used up, dries up, or gets moldy.
To start a new culture you just mix up some new media (purchased or home recipe), put an inch or two in a new container (or cleaned container), add a sprinkle of activated yeast...
Breakfast: 1 isopod, and 1 lrg cricket
Lunch: 1 lrg kingworm
Dinner: 1 med phasmid and 1 lrg cricket (with calcium)
Breakfast: 2 crickets (calcium dusted)
Lunch: Turkish Roach (with reptaid)
Dinner: Silkworm
Wednesday:
Breakfast
1 Big yummy kingworm lightly coated in a delicate calcium supplement and a Reptaid sauce (reptaid squirted into mouth while chewing)
followed by 1 small dessert size butterworm
Lunch: small mealworm, with a lovely calcium dust
Thursday:
Breakfast
2 small crickets...
Monday:
1 cricket (with calcium)
1 turkish roach
1 small mealworm
Tuesday:
1 cricket (with calcium)
1 fat silkworm
Wednesday: 1 silkworm
Thursday: nothing - I had such a bad cold I stayed in bed all day. My partner ensured everyone got water morning and afternoon, but he didnt have time to "muck about with bugs"
Friday:1 big silkworm, and 1 mealworm (calcium dusted)
Saturday: 2 big crickets...
The following was offered to and eaten by each of my adult male panther chameleons today
Breakfast: 1 fat silkworm
Dinner: 2 crickets (calcium dusted)
and 1 small, freshly shed mealworm (calcium dusted)
Breakfast: 2 Large crickets (dusted with calcium) and 1 Kingworm
Dinner: 2 crickets (dusted with calcium)
Dessert: small phasmid
Sunday Breakfast: 1 kingworm (dusted cal w/D3)
Sunday Lunch: 1 silkworm
Sunday Breakfast:
1 silkworm
1 king(super)worm (vitamin dusted)
Sunday Lunch:
1 small cricket (calcium dusted)
Monday Breakfast:
1 small cricket (calcium dusted)
1 silkworm
1 kingworm
Tuesday Breakfast:
1 mealworm
2 cricket (calcium dusted)
Tuesday Dinner:
1...
A few days ago i realized Karma my Tamatave had yellow urates, i knew that was a big no,no, I have been showering, misting, and installed a drip system, he seems to be better today, i just gotta wait for his next poop to find out :p
Elwood is a True Blue Nosy Be Panther that I acquired from GeckoXP here on Chameleon forums several Months back. He was hatched by the Ed and Liddy Kammer in the first part of 2007. He is absolutely beautifull and goes from the Deep blue, to almost a Sea Green when he gets into the natural...
Well, It's the start of a new month. I look foward to picking up a few hundred walkingsticks tomorrow, and maybe a thousand silkworms too. What's going on with our insects? First it was mealworms dying, than trouble with waxworms. Now nobody has silkworms from coast to coast. Might just be...