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My females always laid their eggs after aproximately four weeks. I guess the time depends on the temperature. In hot summer it seemed to be a bit earlier. Three months seem to be actually too much. If she was not receptive she would be terrified by the male and she would do her best to avoid...

I guess that the chameleon is too stressed by feeding when opening mouth by force. Maybe a suitable first step would be less stressful hand-feeding. I have quite positive experience with feeding when the mouth is open because of drinking. It can be arranged for example putting the cham into...

This is a "banana" cricket G.assimilis. I breed this species many years, they are my favourite. Unfortunately, they suffer from the same deseases as A.domestica. If you have the desease already at home, it will last approximately five days till they start dying.

There are many cockroach species which are good feeders, not only dubias. In fact when we had the "cricket plague" in our country three years ago, my dudia breed suffered from the desease too (it was not as lethal for them as for crickets, but some of them died and the corpses were terrily...

In that case, you would probably like G.assimillis (these are the most popular in our country, second is A.domestica, G.bimaculatus third). They are almost as big as bimaculatus, they do not bite, they almost do not jump, they are not so noisy, ... It sounds unbelievable to me that you use...

The black crickets are Gryllus bimaculatus from north Africa (brown ones are Grillus assimillis from the US). Black crickets are actually agressive (they can bite, or better eat a small part of the skin of a sleeping cham), some people in Europe therefore avoid using them. Since I am feeding...

For me, it is much less comfortable to clean small cages. I really hate cleaning my cages for babies equipped with living plants (80cm*40cm*60cm, the last is height).

Since they have usually no problems eating from your hand, there are no limits (I use cages of volume two cubic metres from the age 3 months).

I have experience with CBs only, but: I never had prolems with breeding (but I use the winter cooling period). I believe that the winter cooling period is necessary for their non-short lives. The incubation works well with the system 24-15-24 (Celsius, see my other posts for more details)...

Honestly, very big cages also have several disadvantages. It is almost impossible to keep inside the temperature which is considerably different than the room temperature and it is more difficult to reach proper ventilation. And of course, sometimes it is difficult to find the cham inside...

I have been told the following three new methods which may help: 1) Pick a group of melleri together, males will be black and white, females green (I think it worked for the four babies I bought last year-I am not sure about one "female" whom I lost quite early) 2) Some people use the shape of...

It can be easily found on the internet that in southern Madagascar (try for example Toliara) the average day temperature in summer is 31 degrees Celsius, night is 23. In winter it is 25/15. So there is actually a considerable jump. It is a custom among experienced keepers and breeders to...

Concerning the light, I had the same experience. It semed strange to me, because I did not think that there can be such a darkness in the forest, so I tried to use "day light" bulbs instead of cheaper "warm white". And it works.

In my case, the male was aggressive first few days of mating. I guess it might be a mehod to make the female to change the position for a more suitable one. My melleri male uses a similar technique too, attacking the female with his horn, he makes her slowly walking so that he could comfortably...

I have already seen both gravid chameleon females in regular colours and nongravid females in "gravid" colours. Maybe it is better to understand these colours as warning colours. In case your female has infertil eggs inside, she will behave the same way as if she was actually gravid.

Have you seen her drinking recently?

Kinyonga, sorry, I have written the last paragraph too vaguely. I mean that I have "solved" the feeding of my chams so that I am satisfied with it and I have many other problems to solve. Well, maybe I should apologize again because this sounds like passing to another topic. Please, read all my...

Exactly, chameleons are not people. I remember once discussing with a vet (an exelent reptile breeder by the way, he had babies of 15 species of chams) a few years ago my former "bodybuilding approach" when feeding chameleons. His reaction was that their digestion system is so simple that there...

I am feeding my roaches and crickets with a dog food every day (their diet is only wet dog food, apples and oat flakes) and I had no problems ever. My oldest animal is F.verrucosus I have for four years. Everything sounds like a nonsence to me, I guess that the lion's meat does not contain...

I do not believe that vegetarians vs. people eating meat have different protein ratio in their muscles. Therefore I also do not think that there is much difference when you feed your roaches with apples vs. dog food (well, I have observed that in the first case, the roaches eat one another more...