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I have an electric space heater on a timer in my Cham room. It turns off at night so the room can cool down into the mid 60's, and comes on for 8 hours during the day. It has a cheap thermostat on it so it will turn off when it heats the room to 75. Works great for my melleri. There's also...

Oh sorry, me either I thought at a glance the question was about incubation media. I also use washed play sand as a laying media.

Hatch Rite is awesome. It looks like its mainly pearlite, dont know what else is in it. Ive had great success with it, and I know The Chameleon Farm uses it as well. Obviously more expensive than sand or vermiculite or soil mixes, but it works well.

Males tend to show more aggression towards others as well, and once you've seen it, the female's hip bones are much more pronounced and wider. My male will get as close as he can to my male veiled's cage and just stare at him. I tried to introduce my male veiled to my melleri's free range on...

Watch the Chameleons of Madagascar video on youtube. Its almost an hour long, but it shows a similiar small species of leaf chameleon as well as many others in Madagascar and Africa.

The worms are almost always present in wild caught melleri and other chameleons, and they live with them with relatively few problems. It's when they get stressed from shipping and changing owners that the parasites can multiply explosively. I doubt your melleri is going to die in the...

Also, I wouldn't introduce another melleri or any Cham to it until you've had yours for at least 3-4 months, and it passes a vet check, eats, and drinks properly on a regular schedule. You need to keep track of how much it eats daily, how long it's misted/watered, what it's weight is monthly...

Most Mellers have worms of some sort when they come in from the wild. It is very common to see them pass worms in their wastes when they come in. Most are given a single small dose of Panacure at the importers holding facility, but thus usually doesn't get most of the worms. Your vet needs to...

The worm may have been a round worm, I would get it to a vet for a fecal and respiratory check up immediately. Don't wait until it gets bad, most chameleons don't show problems until it's too late.

Here's mine gravid. Yours just looks angry/unreceptive.

Sorry, here's the second pic

Here's my free range for my melleri. Installed a shower drain in the center of the table, and lined it with a shower liner, then sloped concrete to the drain, exactly the same way you build a concrete shower to tile. I ran a 3/4" PVC pipe up through the center to hide the mister water line, and...

No worries, I don't feed potatoes. I follow Kristina's gut load recipe on the Melleri Discovery page. I feed a green leafy veg. with carrots or sweet potato, and a fruit of some sort, usually apples, oranges, or strawberries. I also include a dry mix of equal parts dry non fat milk, oats, grape...

I currently feed my crickets and dubia both a dry mix and fresh fruit, vegetables, and tubers/root vegetables. This is my constant food in their containers, so I'm assuming they're constantly gut loaded. Is this true? I have great results with my chams this way, but was curious if it's better...

The Petsmart here in town sells whole alfalfa in bags.