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Yeah, I am addicted to his podcasts! The last one was in November, and I'll soon finish the archive. Hope he starts making more soon, haha!

You've owned dogs or cats, right? Then there was probably some degree of inbreeding back in their lineages. In fact, a lot of inbreeding happens without people being involved: so, stray cat colonies, where lots of animals congregate in a small area at a population density that is unknown in the...

Fascinating. You talk about White Shepards--is deafness an issue with them the way it is for Dalmations? (a cousing with a bio degree explained to me once that the gene whose mutation is responsible for albinism is close to another gene connected to hereditary deafness and the two mutations are...

I would definitely talk to a vet over the phone. If you have the time, it also might be worth it to just call around to some of these other vets that aren't directly advertising reptile experience. Especially the ones close to you--you might luck out and find that the vet has experience, after...

Wall-mounted? Cool!

What a fantsastic animal--from fire engine red to yellow. It's just magical. Can I ask what the YBBB means for him?

The little Calumma are amazing! Were they CB by you?

I saw this on FB, too, and from what I recall the huy is hoping to train the cham to use a hamster water dripper to reduce water dripping in the cage (the hamster dripper needs to be licked to drip water). He said the cham now does this "ok", which I took to mean he doesn't have to hold the cham...

Yes, the "hedgehogs are a species of lentil" guy!

The podcast tells of a reptile store owner importing 30 animals and letting them air out or something on the trees in his backyard for a couple of hours after unpacking...and that was that. But I do find it a little suspicious that no other animals escaped from stores or pet owners. Even so...

I'm just going off of Bill Strand's interview with Petr Necas in episode 83 of the Chameleon Breeder podcast. I will say that is pretty common for feral populations tend to have issues related to genetic bottlenecking, regardless of how large the population may get, so hypocardial myopathy is...

Yeah, butisn't the Hawaiian population all inbred since they descend from a small founder population of reptile store escapees?

Sooo exciting! I've loved seeing your videos of the kiyongias and the nasutums--those might be my favorites! I'm keeping my fingers crossed you nail the breeding for these because I would love to have some someday.

Thanks! I'll text you tomorrow.

Are there any folks in Oregon/western Washington/NorCal who either breed or count themselves as more experienced keepers who'd be down to have visitors? As part of my research into chameleons, I'm trying to see chams and their home environments in person as much as possible. Unfortunately...

Bootiful!

How many times a day are you syringe feeding him? Such devotion! Also, what does bsfl mean?

Thanks! I'm also looking into carpet chameleons and other species. Good to know others' experiences!

The lady with the uroplatus geckos and chams living together isn't someone I know--she's a co-author of a recommended book on uroplatus. The book doesn't talk about chams at all, so no specification as to which chams she keeps with her geckos, but the enclosure they all live in is the size of a...

Yes, this woman keeps her reptiles in a gigantic indoor garden. I don't know what she does with the chameleons, but she is an experienced uroplatus breeder and researcher--she co-authored the "bible" of the genus, afterall--so she must know her stuff, but I guess her space is large enough that...