Recent content by Dominomyles

His urates are whitening up again, and I actually saw him lick some water today off a leaf so I am happy so far. I got a temp reader, and of corse forgot the humidity gauge. I have been keeping an eye and it has fluctuated between 89-92 in his basking spot. Is that alright? It's a temp gun thing...

Yes, he shed a couple days ago.

Thanks for the info about the lighting, that makes a lot of sense and I should have known that! Now I'm putting that together in my head. As for the handling, I am not grabbing him, but he is not walking into my hand willingly. I put my hands underneath him and kind of give him to other...

Why should I have a spot with no UVB? And how would I do that? My understanding is that they should always have a UVA/UVB source. If I had a reptisun and heat bulb, the reptisun would also always be on him. Hope that statement made sense. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean. With the...

Hey all I'm gonna fill out this how to ask for help form in hopes one of you can help me out. I got my male panther chameleon on June 3, so tomorrow it will be 2 weeks exactly since I picked him up. I am not a total newbie to caring for chameleons, and just can't figure out what the problem is...

May be a really stupid question but here it goes, the first time ever even looking at plants was to do my chams enclosure so I literally know nothing about plants or their lighting. Is that 6500k light not going to add heat to the enclosure?? I really like the umbrella trees as well, and the...

I have an XL reptibreeze and have a ti plant and a hibiscus tree in there. Needless to say, I killed the hibiscus. I use a 100w powersun and manually most several times a day (heavily) What are y'all's favorite plants that are hardy enough to hold a cham (panther) and are easy to keep alive? My...

I just came across a really old thread of a pretty nasty bite. I was hoping some others could chime in on pictures or stories of their bites? I'm a newbie to the site and have been bitten by many babies, but didn't realize their adult bites could do enough damage to cause 5 stitches! Ouch. And...

How do you shake with cup without making the cham nervous? I was trying that but I felt everytime he got interested in the roaches and locked in on them he would look at me and then run away. Call me a weenie, but I am not touching the roaches or letting them lose in the cage. I've fed a lot of...

I'm more so meaning the cup in my hand so he associates my hand with good things. But those are great ideas for when I leave food in the enclosure that I will definitely do, I love that bottle idea!

Any little tricks to get my new cham to eat dubia roaches or crickets out of a cup? He'll snatch a super worm from my hand in like 5 seconds but won't eat roaches or crickets from a cup.

I, for now, am gut loading with some orange stuff from petsmart. NOT my first choice at all! but over the weekend I'll start to make some. At the store I used to work at we used this awesome premade gelly type green feeder that smelled really good, which as an added bonus helped the smell of...

Thank you! I know that's what I should do. I just got a little iffy cause at first he was really social, and it was only after I grabbed him to prevent him from going on my head that he got like that so I didn't know if I should force him to see I was ok or just wait. I'll wait and I'm gonna go...

I'm also looking for people's input on that. I tried the stick thing and I think that freaked him out more than I freak him out.

I have a place for crickets and super worms! Just not silkworms, roaches, etc. I think petsmart or petco has waxworms but I don't go there unless I absolutely need to.