SandraChameleon's Blog

I lost a good chameleon today. :( It was only five years ago that my partner picked him out of a group of babies, saying "if you have to keep another one, make it this one" and named him Trucker, because he just didnt stop "trucking" around the cage, "driving" right over top the other two in...

Knew I'd probably need additional fruit flies (my own cultures not keeping up with demand). So I ordered them. Should have arrived Wednesday. Shipment came Thursday instead, and the container held only half a dozen flies, a totally inadeuqate amount of medium (didnt even cover the bottom of the...

Threads pop up from time to time about providing lights that help with maitaining healthy growing plants in chameleon enclosures. These are my thoughts on the subject. Sunlight is the least expensive way to illuminate plants, so some people double-up on plants and rotate their plants between...

A simple log of what prey was given to the NosyBe Ambilobe cross hatchlings during the month of August, 2010 (their second month of life). Babies are fed multiple times a day(breakfast, maybe second breakfast, lunch, second lunch, and maybe super). Listing it all out makes for quite a big...

A log of what was eaten by the adult males this month. Supplements, if used, are indicated by: C=calcium (RepCal or sticky tongues mineral O brand); CD3=calcium with D3 (RepCal); V=Vitamins (RepCal Herptivite). wc = wild caught August 1: 2 butterworms (1 with V) August 2: 4 crickets (C)...

I watched someone "dusting" their cricket with Calcium + D3. I say dusting in quotes because it was actually more like painting or heavily coating the crickets. I dont dust my home much, but even at my house the dust layer has never been that opaque and thick. Well, almost never. That top...

This is a log of what prey was given to the NosyBe hatchlings (Babies are fed multiple times a day) during the month of August, 2010 (their third month of life). Prey is gutloaded. First half of the month, they got two types of fruit flies, but later in the month was only using the large fruit...

I track what each of the males eat daily, take an average and log it here in these monthly blog entries. A semi-colon (rather than comma) is used to indicate when there were two separate feeding times (morning then afternoon). Supplements, if used, are indicated by: C=calcium (RepCal or sticky...

Week 1: fruit flies* (no supplementation) Its worth noting that i didnt witness any eating until around day 4 post hatching. Week 2 (week 1 for the ones that hatched later): fruit flies* calcium dusted for one of the feeds every other day (they are fed 3-5 times daily) Week 3: fruit flies*...

A log of what the adult male chameleons ate (averaged) during the month of June. All feeders gutloaded except moths and butterworms. Supplementation indicated by C=calcium; CD3=Calcium with D3; V=Vitamins 1 - 2 crickets C & 1 mealworm C 2 - nothing 3 - hornworm 4 - 3 crickets C 5 - Hisser 6 -...

The clutch of Ambilobe x Nosy Be babies is starting to hatch now too. This is a little ahead of schedule (and the pure nosy be clutch hatched a little behind schedule just a few weeks ago). boy oh boy am I ever going to be a busy person over the next while. Better get more fruit flies brewing...

I was so lucky to happen to have a week off work when this clutch of Nosy Be babies started to hatch on May 23rd. The last one hatch yesterday. Are they not the Cutest!?!?!

This is another installment in the monthly diary of what the 4 adult male chameleons ate (averaged). Females got essentially the same, only sometimes less quantity. On those days where two different bugs are listed, usually one was the morning meal and the other type was an afternoon meal. All...

All bugs are gutloaded. I use RepCal brand supplements, and dusting is done very lightly. C= Calcium C+D3=Calcium+D3 V=Vitamins FEMALES April 30 - 1 butterworm, 1 cricket (C) 29 - 1 turkish roach, 1 wc moth 28 - 1 silkworm 27 - nothing 26 - 1 silkworm, 1 superworm (C) 25 - 1 silkworm...

I'm starting to become depressed with this forum. Well, no. Not with the forum, but rather with the all too frequent threads about seriously ill or near death chameleons, with owners who clearly havent a clue or just dont care, apparently lacking any values, ethics, morals or intelligence. Too...

per 1 Leek (124g) bulb and lower leaf-portion Calcium: 59mg Phosphorus: 35mg rated as having moderately high Oxalate content Water 83g Protein 1.5g Total lipid (fat) 0.3g Carbohydrate, by difference 14.15g Fiber, total dietary 1.8g Sugars, total 3.9g Calcium, Ca 59mg Iron, Fe 2.1mg...

Got a bonus shipment of butterworms, making for a skewed diet this month. But it'll balance out over the next few months, since I wont be buying more for awhile. Everything is gutloaded except butterworms. March 1 - 1 large walking stick and 1 superworms 2 - 1 Superworm, 1 adult male dubia...

Failure to fully extend the tongue, or troubles retracting the tongue, poor aim, etc.- these types of tongue issues can be the result of injury and/or nutritional inbalances. - trauma from getting the tongue wrapped around or entangled or caught on something in the enclosure or a puncture...

If you read it in a book, if 100 people say its the way to do it, it still might not be the only way, or even the best way. For some, screen cages are great; in other situations they would be the worst type of enclosure. For some, a repitsun tube is preferred; but others have success with...

Today's "high point" was receiving a shipment of butterworms that were the biggest ones I'd ever seen. As big as full grown silkworms, and a few even bigger! Today's low: waiting on hold to discuss a tax question with Revenue Canada, and realizing that the hold music was in fact an "elevator"...