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our blue bar ambanja

our blue bar ambanja

This is Hugo, our blue bar ambanja panther

you know, that was a really dumb thing for me to say. The water should be dechlorinated, but what I was really trying to convey was to use hot tap water. And I should have mentioned to spray it on himself, first. I just wouldn't want someone to try to use boiling water or water from the hot tap...

following up on Hugo & the hornworms We did get another batch of hornworms, and they arrived slightly larger than before. We decided to feed off smaller ones, since we had a problem going through the larger ones in advance of metamorphosis. Hugo likes them so much we've had to wait to let some...

Great information, thanks for sharing! Hugo is our first panther, so every time he does something out of the box we scramble to figure it out. While we haven't seen him do this in a little while, we've also seen him eat the dirt the pothos vine is potted in, so we've added large rocks around the...

pupae feeding Interesting, I hadn't thought of feeding off the pupae. We have cut the cocoons open before, since sometimes the emerging moths will get stuck in there and die. I don't mind that the moths don't add anything nutritionally, they are just for variety.

Chameleons are predators, and very few predators survive on just one food naturally. You'll find that chameleons go through phases just like people do. Mine have especially enjoyed trying new foods, but they can get bored and spoiled, and go on hunger strikes. I pretty much always make...

tomato hornworms We recently bought some tomato hornworms, and I thought I'd relate some my experience with them. They came in a very convenient container - food at the top, lattice along the sides, so that you can empty the frass (poop). There is a lot of frass. As others have...

we tried this a little half heartedly, maybe will get a little more aggressive with it.

vine, cork attacks we've just started to see Hugo, our 7-8 month old panther chameleon, do this. It's very unnerving. First we saw him bite a piece of cork. This morning I saw him aggressively bite an artificial vine, chomping down on it and trying to rip a piece off. I'm relieved to see that...

my two cents You can't have too much greenery or fake vine in there - make sure the fake vine is appropriately sized for her feet - it's really effective to wrap a large vine with a small one. Jackson's Chameleons are very tolerable of cooler temperatures. Depending on what part of...