T.Johnstoni Have only been imported to the United States about 3 times in the last 50 years.
Most likely all the Pictures in this thread are from the last time they were ever imported.
They are Highly coveted and extremely hard to obtain.
The last time was from Uganda, and Uganda is very hard...
This was our female, our lucky star from Tanzania, You can tell the difference from the captive bred ?
Several ways to tell Captive bred, from Wild specimens .
This Giant girl blessed us with 58 eggs, of which we hatched 56 and raised them to up to
Incredible beasts by 6 months of age.
Can you...
Heres Big Mommas Mother.
This Big Female from Tanzania origin was my Lucky star, and gave us 58 eggs. (can you tell ? )
Pretty easy to tell the wild Mellers versus the Captive bred Mellers.
We were very fortunate to have hatched 56 out and raised to incredible beastes by 6 months of age p to...
The Picture above is "Big Momma" , Out of 40 + species we have worked with , Big Momma (f1 generation)
was the closest to having a dog as possible, and an absolute favorite chameleon
She roamed the greenhouse for almost 10 years, and we were extremely fortunate to have her produce
over 60 eggs...
Mellers chameleons, and other larger chameleons are more comfortable looking down on humans, and potential predators, one reason very large cages are needed for Mellers, these types of set ups are what help a lot when you want the Chams to exibit natural behavior, especially mating and...
This cbb Bad boy Male is about 7 ft + up and showing semi Excited colors.
Mellers colors at rest are the Greens and Yellows.
When they are mating , or excited , upset, they are Darker Yellow and almost black bars.
Thank you.
D. Tamura is one of the few people int the USA that currently have Mellers.
He has a Dream set up going, with free Ranging/ Roaming Mellers.
We are hoping for a current picture here.
OUr photos are almost 25 years old, Oldies but Goodies.
I wonder if anybody else in The US had any...