Sorry, I agree with you and I didn't want to come across as bashing the store, just the conditions of the current imported chams they have. Thanks for raising the issue. And yes, the price listed a pair of the boettgeri so I was searching and searching and I finally found the second one embedded...
I agree that TCR is a good store (No one named them in this thread until you did). I value that they are around and have been a patron for decades. I disagree with bringing in imported chams that are not regularly bred in captivity, and giving them substandard care. Special orders of imports...
I went by that shop today and saw both species. I wasn’t happy that they were housing multiples in the same small enclosures and there was one boettgeri dead and decomposing in the cage. Not cool. Here is a pic of the remaining live boettgeri.
Frank provided these awesome CBB Carpet Chams (Furcifer lateralis) that just arrived today (Minneapolis). Here is the 2-month-old female hitting some x-small loaded crickets in slo-mo:
I would listen to the Chameleon Breeder podcast by Bill Strand on the topic of UVB and MBD - it covers a huge amount of information on placement and types of lighting as well as how to provide branches and access to the various lighting levels. http://www.chameleonbreeder.com/
Here is my daughter's (really mine :) Ambanja bred by the Kammer's. My daughter named him BonBon (Malagasy for candy). He is about 6 months old now. [/ATTACH] This second shot is the most recent; he is also sitting under the lamp so he appears a bit more bright blue than his real color of more...
I use corrugated plastic - it is lightweight and structurally decent. It is sold at big box hardware stores near the section with acrylic sheets and other plastics. It comes in white and black. Here is a photo in use with my Dragon Strand screen cages:
Here is my simple drainage mod to my DragonStrand drip trays. Took about 20 minutes to install. 1/4" tubing, 1/4" sprinkler fittings from Lowes, and a collection bucket.
She (with a lot of support on my end) is responsible for her new Ambanja Cham she received as she turned 9. So the cake was a fitting theme for the day.