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Dj, I just held it in one hand and pushed on the lower jaw with a finger. Once I got something into the mouth the cham started chewing. Kinyonga, No uvb and insects dusted w repashy calcium plus. Neither of those are relevant as the cham is a fresh import.

I have a wc and just acquired pygmy with tongue issues. It fires the tongue but the tongue droops so it never hits. I was able to shove a few bean beetles into its mouth which it ate but I doubt that is good long run. Could this cham just be dehydrated? Looks outwardly ok.

I saw a fresh shipment at lll which included sone large females...perhaps gravid. Unless their is a lot of size variation mine are still quite young. I've noticed different personalities in mine...one female is more sedentary and careful than the other...unless food is involved she is always...

I have no idea how big baby pygmy chameleons are. To clarify-newly hatched pygmys can eat bean beetles? They must start out bigger than I thought then. The trick with bean beetles is to always move adults over to fresh beans. Yes you can get multiple booms out of a batch of beans but...

Sorry to dredge up an old thread. Chris if you wouldn't mind a personal question-how do you manage to balance this collection with your vigorous work and academic life that involves lots of travel? You must have your own place for them and contacts who are able and willing to care for such a...

I think that tail thickness is more important than the length. The pictures we have of the male show the tail off to the side a bit I think so it is actually longer...and again note that it is fairly thick. Here is a female, for example...

are neonates able to take bean beetles?

So which one turned out to be the male?

Has anyone observed these guys to close their eyes and then inflate them to 2x the size and swirl fluid around in them after being sprayed with water? I'm wondering if perhaps water getting in its eyes irritated it? I observed the tiniest strand of mucus or something hanging over the eye...

Interesting: Does Nick think the top one is the male?

That is a pretty large enclosure-so I think you will have luck dividing it. You could arrange the enclosure to make sort of a no mans land in the middle that would encourage each male to claim a side of the enclosure. A slab of corkbark or a stump as a divider for example.

A breeder's perspective would be nice on these! I would myself order several females and a single male. At least the for sure males no problem picking them out. That way you will hopefully end up with a decent sex ratio-since I think these tend to run male heavy anyway...at least this is what...

What sort of behavior is observed in this species in breeding? I'm pretty sure I have 1.2 R. brevicaudatus. I have observed the following. A couple times the male would change to like yellow and chase one of the females-sometimes managing to crawl ontop of female. Said female has been...

These guys seem to be rather frustrating to sex...note in the other thread someone has come to the exact opposite conclusions. The first animal definitely has a longer tail, but the crest is not as pronounced. Second animal has a pronounced crest, but what looks like a short tail-but it may...

Just curious if anyone else has had any success with this? I started doing it sort of by accident with my female brev-she would hang out on a branch right at the front of her tank and before long I had her zapping bean beetles off my hand/out of a small feeding cup. I even experimented with...