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    Cham behavior

    My store-raised cham was never friendly. But he got very sick at one point, and after being handled so much and then being taken outside for real sunlight and climbing around my small Japanese maples in the summer, he still complains but it's more a formality. I still have to go in on his blind...
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    help!!:(

    There's also another video of a veiled eating a whole lizard. So much for "don't feed them anything wider than their heads"! Makes my big guy look kind of wimpy when he freaked out because a big goliath worm was holding onto his inside cheek and wouldn't swallow down--
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    Weird Cham Habits!

    Well, my 2-year-old veiled male, Squig, has issues with everything. He was raised in a little independent petshop, with his enclosure on a stand above everyone, so when they spritzed him with water, it was from below. To this day, he has to kvetch about water being sprayed anywhere near him...
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    Calling all houseplant experts

    If they're scale insects, you can remove them after touching them with a Q-tip wet with rubbing alcohol. They're easy to lift off then, even if you just want to do it as a test before returning the plant. Actually, though from the vertical lines bordering the spots on the 2nd closeup, it...
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    Good plants for veiled?

    After I got a pair of new veiled juveniles last October, I decided to try a pothos in the enclosure. (My first veiled is an older guy who thought live plant leaves were where you aimed your poop.) The little female ate every leaf off the thing in a week. Yet they have free time among the big...
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    Newbie Lighting Advice!

    If I may jump into this thread - I'm all for using regular incandescent bulbs for basking - but a shopping search today for 40 and 60 watt bulbs only brought a ton of those "modified spectrum"/"energy saving" incandescent bulbs. Do they provide the same amount of heat as the traditional...
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