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It's definately not them scuttling out of sight. I've made it an effort to open the lid quickly in one swift motion so there's no chance to scurry away. So it's not the movement that is sending them hiding, their just not interested in the food :/

I've had a dubia colony for a little over a week now and I have yet to see a single cockroach eating, or even on the side of the enclosure where the food and water is once. They are just constantly in the egg crates. I'll occasionally crack open the lid and check, and like I said, I have never...

What is the best light to get that won't increase the heat? I already have 1 reptisun 5.0, should I add another? or will a low wattage fluorescent not raise the temp very much. I just checked the temperature with my current 100 watt bulb and his basking spot is a little over 100 degrees, I know...

Thats what I was thinking, if the ambient temp is high enough without needing a basking light, is it OK to just turn it off? I guess I could get a low watt bulb to have light in the cage but only increase the heat as little as possible... or maybe use an LED light...

If you want to be sure, you can easily add some fake vines to hang down and give him some more hiding places.

Maybe pull the mealworms out of the burrows with tweezers, or just remove the wall altogether if that's possible. And if the mealworms are leaving foam particles at the bottom of the enclosure, I would pay attention to that. If the worms are attracted to the wall and happen to gather and burrow...

I live in northern California and it has been getting very hot lately and it will only get higher as the summer progresses. I live in a crappy apartment with awful air conditioning and the ambient temperature in the house hovers around 85 degrees. For a juvenile chameleon, I know that the...

Definately very red! I have an ambilobe about the exact same size and he shows a steady turquoise on his body, and alot of rings and stripes, but no red!

I recommend the mistking, the $50 difference will pay off in the end, as the cheaper ones don't work as well and are more likely to break. I'm sure you can find 50 to spare somehow, think of it as an investment :)

He may very well just be a grumpy cham, but theres blogs online that show ways to try to get your cham to warm up to you. For instance, move slowly, try to associate your hand only with food for awhile, don't stare at him too much through the cage, eventually when he grows up he should stop...

It's important to keep the enclosure clean and be able to monitor his eating. If they are burrowing through they will either get out, or die and start to rot. I'm sure Ezio will be alright without his wall, but you can always buy him another. Either way, I would say you don't want mealworms...

When you reach the point in which you are ready to make the purchase, I highly recommend our fellow forum user Andee, I recently dealt with them and they were very friendly and extremely reasonable with their roaches. You can just send them a message on the forum and they will respond quickly...

If there are no breeders or reptile shows around you, alot of people around here suggest FL Chams, they have some blue bar juveniles available it looks like. http://flchams.com/chameleons/panther-chameleons-for-sale/ambilobe-panther-chameleons-for-sale/

I think its safe to say that if your unsure, don't do it. Why risk it?

It shouldn't make a difference, just test out the light and check the temps around the cage in the basking spot and lower down the habitat as well. Even though the light says its more intense, as long as it's not getting much higher than 90 degrees at the basking spot than it should be fine.

I just found a poopy in his enclosure if that helps anyone...it looks normal to my untrained eye

I tried to get some small superworms, but even then, he is so scared of me he just hides when i open the enclosure and the worms just fall straight to the ground where he will never get them...idk what to do.

I'm not sure how much it weighs, how am I supposed to weigh him:confused: and these were the "small" batch of crickets from Petco, they only had "small", "medium" and "large" so I assumed these would be fine. I haven't contacted the breeder, but she mentioned that she fed them "Pheonix Worms"...

Chameleon Info: Your Chameleon - Not sure on age, you can tell from picture. It is a male ambilobe panther, and I've had it in my care for just a little over 2 days. Handling - Only handled my chameleon on the first day as needed to put in enclosure. Feeding - I've been attempting to feed him...

People will shy you away from it, but as long as your dedicated and really put in the effort, you can definately do it. I spent a long time really researching what to do and spent a lot of time getting the enclosure set up perfectly, but now that it's all set up, it's not all that intense.