Recent content by PhoenixFeather

oh no, I'm so sorry to hear about Luie. This must be very painful for you :( You gave him everything he could have wanted though, and your love and relationship with him was inspirational. thank you for sharing him with everyone while you could; he was obviously a very special fellow

lol I named him for the owl in Sword in the Stone because he was just like that at first. Always perched up on his plant scowling down at the humans like he was so superior, and a fairly bad attitude. Thankfully he's gotten much better :)

Wow that's great! I think it's really important to get a cham used to being held and touched in every way and place you can if possible, because you never know when it will need a medical examination! Of course it is best to acclimate them to handling in the least stressful way possible, but I'm...

yeah diet can affect color to a certain extent. The catch is that you'd have to be feeding pigments that don't get broken up during digestion AND eventually end up in the someplace that's visible from the outside. For example, in humans pigments that make their way to the blood stream can change...

uh I think maybe I understand what you're saying, but this "balancing" process usually takes many hundreds of thousands of years and generally doesn't prevent loss of species/ecosystems. It just allows new species to emerge in their place a long time later through the process of growth and...

oh wow that extremely sad :'( so sorry for what so many of us humans are doing and the part we all play. There are some things we can do though, so we shouldn't lose hope! like buy organic when you can. and avoid processed foods, especially those with corn or soy products in them. Things...

ok thank you everyone, Im sorry if I snapped :o It's just that Ive worked really hard with him and had great progress, and though there's no way you could know his and my experience together, I couldnt help but feel frustrated that there are so many who seem not to trust that I can take care of...

ok I'm sorry, but you are just plain wrong when you say that "he was scared and responded the only way he knew how". He was NOT afraid. I know what that looks like. I spend at least an hour with him every day and have worked him up from being a fairly defensive/frightened guy (even hissing at...

wow I didnt know digestion stopped with waking consciousness.... that's so strange, thanks for telling me. Is there a link where I could learn more about that? I'm sorry about your friend's croc. thats really, really unfortunate. You dont have to worry about little Archimedes though, this isn't...

yeah, I hear ya. I remember once when I was little I heard a story of a woman who crushed a kitten in her sleep. I remember thinking "What kind of an idiot sleeps with a kitten!!? That is careless beyond excuse :mad:" In fact I thought of that story as I laid down on my side with him and how I...

hmmm yeah I knew I'd get some criticism, but I still really dont think it was bad. Every chameleon is different, and I know my own pet better than you do. Of course chameleons dont need blankets, but apparently he didnt mind it. In fact I dont know why you'd be so certain that he didn't enjoy...

I had the sweetest morning with my little guy today, and I wanted to share it with someone... see I heard some rustling around 8 and rolled over to see Archimedes hanging off the edge of his FR schefflera pot peering intently at the container where I store his crickets.. so I got up and got...

lol funny. That was cute :D

well I would like the supplement asap, and I happened to boil a few eggs today anyway...you were right that it was a major pain to grind them up though. It took like 20 minutes to get them about as fine as sand. and the membrane definitely didn't help, had to pull that out >.> Oh well, I do...

Hi I have a 4 month male veiled cham, and I can't find plain calcium without D3 or phosphorus for him in ANY pet stores Ive been to (at least 7 so far.) So I was thinking back to my research on leopard geckos and remembered someone said they sometimes ground up eggshells for a calcium supplement...