what i'm saying is that my chameleon is an omnivore and i'd rather have her meet her needs naturally than artificially gutloading crickets. my crickets eat potatoes and oranges, thats about it. they are very healthy and very clean.
i dust with calc D3 once a month, and calc every other day...
so will real wood branches and what-not be fine then for the humidity? the hiding and whatnot. she has these leaves, fake ones, that she loves hiding behind. she never uses anything else. and i have fake ones to cover where im hoping she is digging in. i havent looked just incase she abbandons it.
so is pure playsand the preffered method for a laying bin?
what is the importance of a plant inside the cage? Can i just get strong twigs from outside? are leaves necessary? my cham really doesn't seem to enjoy eating leaves that much. i give her very moist fruit like cucumbers and she really...
i havent personally seen her even attempt it to be honest.
also, the gutload i meant for the crickets. it's too much money wasted on crickets. i give them what she wont eat, and the rest goes straight through her, to prevent filtering of calcium and vitamins through cricket ingestion...
she doesn't have mbd, and if you read the parenthesis she is not getting fed 2 crickets (LOL) sorry i said she was 7 months... she'd be dead by now.
anyway,
my temps are fine, i have a humidifier, the cage size is honestly too big for a female cham's requirenments (if thats even possible)...
well an important tip is that veileds are the easiest to take care of...
flap necks are not of the veield species, so you've dug yourself a hole there.
take your cham's care VERY seriously. temp, humidity, dusting, diet etc.
it must be taken as if it were a condition you could only survive...
6 months is too old imo... get yourself a baby its much funner.
my female veiled was around 3 months when i got her, and she BLEW UP... in size, not literally blew up that'd be wierd.
anyway i'm having an excellent time trying to distinguish her new patterns as she ages.
my 7 month old...
actually what i did was get those turkey sheets and fashioned it into the foil. it's tougher and the reflection is almost none. it just looks like a blob.
what i also did to prevent burning from the heat (foil absorbs heat tremendously) was put some of that eco-carpet over it.
this way my...
an extra note, i've heard that (this is an example dont take it literally)
that feeding a sexually mature female cham, when feeding, it is better to feed her 2 crickets every other day, instead of 1 every day, is this true? (essentially it is 1.5x every other day)
in order to prevent less...
so my chameleon has been on the floor for about... 20 mins? her feet are sort of on the cage, and on the floor. she's been walking around and what-not, which is bugging me.
could SHE be in egg-laying stage? she is according to my math about 7 months old (jan 28 was her birthdate according to...
i guess its cause i hand feed her too much, lol.
ofc i freerange her crix but everytime i get in is to feed mostly. she's great with me but like all chams she hates being handles, she's so dumb though she loves being outside, but wont get outside unless i "force her"
i need to catch her...
ah. so i was overthinking it, thats what i figured. was just hoping it wasnt her trying to fend me off, and was also hoping it was her telling me to give her a lift =/
lol
i dont plan on making them feeders really, just treats
im doing it for fun, not really for feeding. i have one cham, i want to see the worms expand you know?
when i hold out my hand she always hits me with her tongue? she doesnt seem angry, no hissing or anything, is it because i hand feed her regularly?
is it because she likes me?
is it because she hates me?
or is she just confused and im overthinking it?
so i bought like 100 mealworms and fed about 50% of them off to my cham. and i decided to let them breed for fun, and just to see how big the colony will grow.
so i have a few questions
i currently have two beetles, anyway of telling male from female?
how long, from birth, do mealworms take...