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The most important thing I've learned over the years is to choose species suited to my local climate. It is much easier and cheaper. So that pretty much limits me to montanes. Now if I lived in a warmer climate, I'd rule out montanes, and go with species like Panthers, Veileds and Oustalets...

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To which I must add that the few of us there were up here breeding quads didn't cooperate as much as compete with each other. We didn't view it as a "collective" or "cooperative". We were trying to outdo each other in a friendly way. I think it worked well. I remember one time barely beating...

I'm assuming that he has heard stories of a large quantity being produced in the Pacific Northwest in the 90's and since Doug was the most well known of us PNW breeders by way of his degree and published articles he got the credit for all of it. There were a few of us up here in Oregon and...

Primarily we both looked for the same thing. Gravid females, lol.

LOL. Fake plants in a warmer, drier state, not specifically Texas. I'm in one of the wettest states in the USA and I won't use fake plants. Real plants keep the humidity up way better than misting because they regulate it slowly rather than an on/off cycling like you get with misting. Fake...

Most likely mites.

15-20 females, half dozen males. Pretty easy to hit those numbers. Not all of them were adult, I used to cycle through them so I didn't burn out the females. Doug and I got into them at the same time because we got them from the same importer here in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to that...

I'm assuming you are referring to Doug Dix who recently lost his son. I produced more quads than him. No reason to contact him. Although he wrote several great articles about what we knew about them at that time, he hasn't kept chameleons in about 20 years. I keep in touch with him about...

They look much better than the last shipment. Better get those red spots looked at though. :eek: And plastic plants in Texas is a really bad idea BTW.

Too bad you did that. Those have a peltier cooler. Even if you didn't want to cool with it, you can just reverse it and use it to heat. One side of the peltier chip gets hot, the other side cools. That would have been the easiest conversion ever. All you would have had to do is reverse it...

I love the prehistoric look of pissed off chameleons! :D

No problem. No worries about your experience on them being 20 years ago. Most of the stuff from 20 years ago or more still works. The only thing I do differently now is better lighting only because LED and T5HO didn't exist back then.

They have a condenser inside them. That means they suck moisture from the air that deposits on the condenser. Thus "condensation". That's why they drip in hot humid air. So the more humidity you add, the more the condenser will try to remove. The exception to this is the old style swap...

The closet method won't work in your climate unless you keep your house like a fridge in the summer. You need an incubator that can cool. If you get them into the 70's F you are going to lose them.

There were a few of us. I was producing 300+ per year for quite a few years. Even then, they didn't get established in the USA. Just goes to show that if only a few people have success with them and those people move on to something else, the supply goes away. I thought they were here to...

If you only plan to heat, just a couple light bulbs. You need two in case one burns out. MelissaB has the high tech approach, great idea!

Me too. That was my normal night temp. :p

FWIW, I kept mine mid to upper 60's F day, upper 50's F night in summer, Lower 60's F day and into the 40's F night in winter. Basking bulbs dimmed way down in summer, but brighter in winter so they can heat up in the mornings.

Guess who? :D