Recent content by Carlton

It could always be so much worse OP! I had a well-established dubia roach colony that lived in a big truck tote on a shelf in my water heater/boiler closet. Periodically, when the colony really got too large and needed a clean-out, I'd cull it by sending boxes of surplus roaches over to the big...

Discord roaches? Hmm, and here I always thought these bugs were peaceable little things 😇 IME juvenile roaches loose in a cham cage can often squeeze through the small gaps around the doors of a screen cage. Your cham isn't seeing or hunting them at night, so there are hours in each 24 hour...

Chams can definitely pick up parasites from their insect prey. You're never going to get rid of every single one. BUT, a healthy insectivore can tolerate some parasites....they need to because they're ubiquitous in the environment. An otherwise healthy host can handle a low parasite burden, but...

Must be a vampire drag queen with all those white "fangs" along the lipline. Seem to recall there is an actual term for toothy grin markings like that. The purpose may be to fool another animal into believing the threatened animal has an arsenal of imposing teeth. Is it scia dentata?

I thought it was, but not everyone agreed. When I landed a new job in bush town AK and needed to sell the house relatively quickly, that jungle room nearly made my realtor bolt for the hills. She took one look, turned quite an odd color herself, and whispered "none of this will be here when we...

I found a pop-up, zipper-close mesh hamper was a simple way to house small cage birds temporarily when I couldn't bring a frame cage along. It would lay flat until needed. A long time biologist friend of mine has set up backyard mist nets and banded songbirds for decades. He untangles the birds...

Wonderful thread! So sorry I don't have a pic to share (this was before digital) but I do have a story. Let your imagination run wild! My biggest Melleri Mufindi ended up featured on Animal Planet's Emergency Vets show years ago. The film crew used to hang around the vets' office waiting for...

There should be lots of descriptions posted how people have transported their chams to vets if you do a forum search. A cham shut into a dark box will stop moving around fairly soon and sit still clutching a stable perch. I usually just wedged a sturdy branch at an angle inside a cardboard box...

And if you really can't find a local practice that sees exotics an interested experienced small animal vet still has the capability to test for parasites and have access to the right meds. They can consult with an exotics vet regarding treatment. IIRC there are vets forum members know who will...

Nothing really wrong with a decorator fake. He won't be living in it, it won't require light or water so you can put it wherever you want in the house, its ability to retain water droplets or withstand higher humidity won't really matter so what its planted in doesn't matter, and chances are he...

Actually, I DID zap mine with a temp gun at various times. At the start of basking, mid way through, when the cham started to gape before moving, when their skin was dark, when it was light, how quickly and how much their body temp changed while away from the basking area, while asleep, etc. I...

I would. Whether it's fecal matter or not, not sure I'd want any loose feeders feasting on my cham's poop at night. Sounds like a great way to complete an intestinal parasite's life cycle to me. Chances are both your feeders AND your cham are carrying a few, possibly multiple species. If this is...

ROFLMAO! That belly tops human plumber's butt! Photoshop in a little leather belt. Pretty please?

Teachers IME rarely if ever take advice from their students. They're the ones with authority, not the students. You could offer the teacher links to this website's husbandry information, especially focused on how much $ and daily time a cham would require. Don't forget rearing and maintaining...

And a female that looks gravid to boot. Quite a belly on her.