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A loooong day of work... a little ice cream... chat's got people logged in, but no one is home. C'mon, cham chat!!

Maggots of flies can survive digestion unharmed and fully functional, as long as the protective skin of the maggot is not compromised. Digestive juices have to get into the maggot through a wound, in other words, to kill & digest them. This is why bird keepers puncture maggots before feeding...

I don't dare lolcham that. It's too pure.

Hmmm, guess I was hoping for more details. Neither cohabbing keeper gives the dimensions of the cohabitation cage when asked, and no mention of how long they've been at it... nor how many hours they spend by day watching the chameleons. PardalisGirl is approaching this correctly, and making...

To effectively feed them farmed houseflies, I moved them back to the 260-g Reptarium on Sunday. Over the past couple days, since the move, they have been re-establishing ranks again with the little gular displays. A change of territory must mean that they have to start all over again with...

Yeah, they do. Only the upper third of my big walk-in enclosure gets used by the melleri.

Thanks, Phil!:) I had googled, but may have missed a good one.

From the MD Outdoor Cage Dressing tutorial: Regular garden hoses are not safe for drinking water, as they are made of recycled materials (recycled PVC with lead stabilizer). As the hose sits in the sun, lead leaches into the water. People may get cancer from this source, and a melleri watered...

Sandy, the eye issue looks like what happens in hypovitaminosis-A early stages. I think some of the sight could be saved or return. Ask your vet on that... Phil, FWIW, I did a quick pass reading on RFUK about cham cohabitation. The forum is not dedicated to chams, so it's a mix of keepers of...

melleri cancer I think it is very unusual... I have only heard of my foundation female and one other female in the N East that had cancer. My female seemed totally normal, and was in her new home two months when she went slightly off. Her owner had her checked, and the vet's X-ray (memory...

See this thread, it may be a brain chemical imbalance? https://www.chameleonforums.com/self-mutilation-3335/

PP'd today. Sorry you had to sell your chams...:(

I was examining my CB female the other day, and noticed that her lobes have changed yet again, and she's only 3 years old. Now, she has distinctly, sharply folded-over lobes, not round "rolltops" anymore. If she's like a male here, the folded sections' inner surfaces will eventually fuse...

Change is deeply upsetting to them. Cranky is to be expected after a cage change. Also, it takes about three months for the entire acclimation process of melleri. As soon as the average WC starts to feel physically better, it will show normal defensive behavior (what you are seeing), then a...

Not the femur or leg, that's the pelvis. Not exactly good. A whole bunch of thoughts about it: First, you did the right thing by taking pix. It helps narrow down causes. Pix are a great tool for keeping chams because our brains are wired to generalize the visual input we take in. The eye of...

I had planned to go, but have a female who at least "thinks" she's gravid now, so the plan has changed... See a chameleon toy/object and think of me!

I'm sorry to hear your melleri has had some problems lately, I hope it heals well! A couple thoughts on the "cyst": Is the skin around or on top of the swelling discolored or changed in pigment, or unusual in texture besides the accompanying stretching of the skin between scales? Does...

Dang it, Eric, stop reading my mind!:D I was wondering if it gained the name "upper" because so many cases of pneumonia develop after the animal's head is infected- starting with mouth ulcers, sinus infections, eye irritation progressing to infection, etc. You may hear a vet refer to a...

Among many other things he's pioneered, Bradypodion thamnobates. Did anyone else see this? It's from last week. http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1563612,1563612

Mr. Goetzei is a sexy beast! Just one Flapneck? Surely, you need another set of lobes around there.