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For me, I got excited about breeding insects. It took many years of just thinking about them as "lizard food" but then the past couple of years (probably because I had fewer lizards) something clicked for me and now I think the insects themselves are really cool. Too many species to think...

Just an FYI- you can improve the calcium/phosphorous ratio of your mealworms also. Don't know if you are familiar with Ferguson's info but in his labratory he raised several generations of panther chameleons on an un-dusted cricket and mealworm diet only. Mealworms were included because his...

Could be anything but the lethargy and pale color with black beard make me wonder if she ate something toxic.

I feed them to my adult chameleons. I am feeding the "crawl off" stage worms- these are big at this stage (and dark coloured)- they are not tiny and white at this point. Many people feed their adult chickens this stage worm. For idea of size the worms can get...

I think it is unlikely. These two species co-exist in the same habitat in the wild. If it could happen between these two, I think it probably already would in the wild on occasion.

I usually order a few about this time of year and use them as a summer starter and ranch new ones all summer for the cost of the starter. So I get many thousands for a very cheap investment each year. The larvae have a pheromone that attracts wild adult females to the culture to lay eggs and...

They shouldn't harm the lizards if that is what you are asking. Probably a form of dust mite or other. To help prevent, you can treat your shelving with mite spray (I use rid from walmart and apply a light coat 2x per year). And then additionally, keep your cultures from touching each other...

:D Lobster roaches seem to be my chameleons' favorite. Green bananas get more interest than the dubia. And I don't know- they are smaller, but adults are not really what I'd consider tiny. Especially if you consider the majority of the diet of wild chameleons (as per published scientific...

dubia are overrated anyway. I breed 5 species of roach (dubia, lobster, green banana, hissers and giant blaberus hybrids). I rotate feedings with those and a few other insect species. The chameleons are the least excited about the dubia. Dubia are just popular because they can't climb smooth...

I don't know that anyone has ever put a solid answer on it. Reasonable speculation over the years has placed the blame on genetics, diet, humidity or excessive heat.

Well, for many years I used shallower but longer cages on shelves up off the ground, reasoning that the chameleons can tell that a 4' high cage on the ground isn't as arboreal as a 2' or 3' high cage on a shelf 4' off the ground (making the top of it 6' off the ground rather than 4). It's pretty...

it means she has or has had MBD This happens when she either can't get enough calcium or d3 or both. The ribs weaken, break, and then heal again, but where they cracked you get the bumps. This used to be kind of a common problem back in the 1990s when products other than rep-cal with d3 were...

It doesn't appear right off to be sick to me- the pics are a little hard for me to see, but from what I can see he looks like his body weight is OK and does not appear dehydrated. His bones look OK as well. Hanging out a lot with the eyes closed is not a particularly good sign. But if his...

I think it is kind of silly that public opinion plays much if any role. I would insist that I'm not trying to be too political, but this entire situation is as far as I can tell, political. Just a quick reminder that we live in a country that was unique and different in the world because it...

Wow! This is an old thread resurrected- (5 years old). I was pretty new to the forums but not to chameleons and was kind of surprised by some ideas here that were new to me at that time. While it is a fact that lizards will store thermal energy kind of like a brick and build it up higher...

He looks wrong to me also, and something about the way he is sitting looks off too.

At first glance USFWS new restrictions on large snakes don't appear to effect many of us. Most of us (myself included- although I do have a pair of boas that I keep around for educational presentations that came super-close to being restricted this time around along with retics and anacondas) do...

lunging sideways with the mouth open or forward with mouth closed on impact? The forward lunge could just be his normal opening act of asserting his dominance before the breeding begins- if so, you are removing him too soon. The side-lunge with mouth open is just aggression. The forward lunge...

If he's bright green- maybe he's a female who was trying to lay eggs...

Oh- I understand better now. With jacksons- probably not. If it is 40 or above at night, my jacksons are outdoors, and really, they can go down right near freezing. So if he's indoors at temps significantly higher than that- he's probably going to be very comfortable. I imagine the places...