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WHAT? It makes threads so much easier to read and people will be more willing to answer your questions if you use real words. If you haven't done so yet, please read the basic husbandry articles under the forum's Resources tab. Lots of good info there. These are basic questions...you'll get...

True. However, if you have a free range spot that a live plant just won't tolerate a fake can provide some structure and visual cover. I use live plants in their setups for all the accepted reasons but once in a while a fake comes in handy!

Probably physically impossible that you pulled out part of the intestine, so forget that. It would have needed to pull up the stomach itself, and obviously that didn't happen. You would know if it was part of the tongue. Again, probably impossible. It IS possible that a feeder your cham caught...

The most essential thing right now before your vet appointment will be water. Focus on that, not trying to force her to eat something. If you want to give her a quick energy boost mix some unflavored Pedialyte with the water. Don't do this long term, just some energy and electrolytes for the...

Plant 1 probably won't be very attractive to him as it won't be very comfortable on his feet and provides no visual cover. IMHO it doesn't add much to a cham free range visually either. Plant 2: I've used fake Ficus like this quite often, even with veileds. To help keep him from trying to eat...

OP don't worry about your options for breeding your chameleon. She probably won't stay healthy long enough to try. At the end of all this childish postering and right-fighting, that's all that really matters. Pool little thing.

I wasn't commenting on your text. I was responding to the thread in general :)

There seems to be some debate as to how much UV exposure they require. Obviously they are understory residents so little direct sunlight penetrates down that far. The couple of articles I've read suggest at least a ReptiSun 2.0 on the usual 12 hour on/12 hour off schedule. Better to provide it...

Hopefully your research included the pygmy caresheet posted under this forum's Resources tab. Probably about the best husbandry info available for these little guys. IMHO if I was keeping my first ones I'd be conservative...and provide more space per individual rather than less. At least have...

So much depends on how well YOU know your particular chams, how well YOU understand cham behaviors, and also how quickly YOU can detect any signs of stress and failure to thrive. It would be downright irresponsible for a less experienced cham keeper to attempt this. But it never fails...people...

Once in a while an exception crops up between two species but DO NOT count on it!!! I kept a wc male T. deremensis and a wc male B. fischeri in a huge divided cage once. I would have free ranged them but needed the cage to provide the higher humidity the room never would. Started noticing the...

I doubt this is anatomically possible OP. Water isn't going to just sit there. It would either go down the esophagus and be no problem or down the trachea into the lungs. He'd be in serious distress if that were the case.

How many pygmies would live in this? IMHO it isn't large enough for more than 1 and that is pushing it. The shape of the space is a lot of the problem...much of it isn't really "available" for perching or moving around in response to temperature, humidity, misting, or hunting food. A...

Species that have a reputation for being somewhat communal still need to be housed in a large enough space. You can't cram 4 pygmy chams in a tiny aquarium. You could put the same 4 in a very large densely planted terrarium that allows each animal to retreat from the others, get enough food...

Sorry you lost him! Actually Charlie was getting up toward being an oldster. If you didn't have any information on his prior care there may have been something missing nutritionally...you might have inherited a subtle problem. There was probably something going on that just caught up with him...

There probably isn't a one-size-fits-all answer for this. There are a lot of diverse species and the sorts of habitats they inhabit vary too. Some species probably make more seasonal movements than others because the climate, habitat conditions, and prey availability force them to. Their...

The main point of a dripper is that it provides a moving water source for a longer period of time than a short hand spraying might. However, if you are very diligent with hand spraying multiple times a day, have lots of vegetation that catches and holds water droplets for a longer time (so the...

More importantly you need to figure out why he's spending so much time with his eyes shut. In most cases its not an eye problem at all...closing eyes is a symptom of something else. Solve THAT problem and the eye problem goes away too. At the top of this forum there's a post with a questionnaire...

Congratulations!!! Nothing cuter than baby jax!

Totally fine. I usually tried to teach my chams to take water from a hand held syringe. Most, but not all of them did. It wasn't that difficult and I was able to mix a med into the syringe water once in a while if necessary. I'd spray down the cage foliage as usual. Most of the time the cham...