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If you don't let the soil dry up, yes. The soil in my terraria is as humid as you'd find it in a forest. Dead leaves and chameleon poop are broken down by small organisms similar to those that would occur in a chameleon's natural habitat. I never use any plant nutrition and almost never have to...

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Any advice on moisture levels? What is your method for incubating all those multi's? I've had this problem before with other species, though I wasn't around when those eggs were incubating (internships around the globe). I'm getting the idea that I'm overlooking something big and I'm dying to...

All babies were fully developed (see photo), though I found that some still had a pretty big yolk sac attached to their body. I guess the eggs absorbed too much water, resulting in the fact that the babies could not apply enough pressure to break/slice through the shell. The water that I added...

BAD news... The eggs were sweating for about 2 days and on the morning of the third day I decided it was taking too long. When I opened one up, there was a dead baby inside. I opened the next one and found another dead baby. It went on like that untill the last egg, which had a live baby inside...

Always nice to see uthmoelleri!

The temperatures are pretty similar for both species, but my boehmei's don't really like water. I can't remember exactly how my multi's responded when I misted them, but at least they drank a lot more than boehmei.

Great to see those hatchlings!! Mine are still in their eggs, but two of them (the one in the top left corner and the lower one in the middle in the photo) started sweating today :D

Same here. Plants are growing like crazy :)

The identification key to the genus Brookesia says that B. therezieni have spiny tubercles on the lateroventral tail surface, while B. superciliaris doesn't have them. Do you have more photo's?

I believe the subfamilies Brookesiinae and Chamaeleoninae might be no longer valid. Klaver & Böhme divided the entire family into two subfamilies in 1986, based on the morphological structure of the hemipenis of a number of species. They only had 5 Rhampholeon/Rieppeleon species available at the...

Not yet, but I'm still confident. I took a photo of both clutches next to each other today. The clutch on the right is the first one and was laid exactly 8 months ago, the other clutch was laid about 3 months ago (these eggs only started growing last month by the way). I really wonder when they...

Thanks for voting everyone! I'm proud to have won the contest! :D

Isn't there an article with the description of this species that has photo's in it? I thought I had seen it a few years ago. Edit: this is the article I meant: Raxworthy, J. C. & Nussbaum, R. A., 2006, Six New Species of Occipital-lobed Calumma Chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) from Montane...

If it makes them more valuable, the problem is that people will prioritize making money above establishing a healthy captive population (think about translucent calyptratus etc.). Suppose everyone would start mixing up calyptratus and gracilis (if they would produce fertile offspring) and...

@ Frankcham: If you are going to sell them eventually and are trying to determine a price, how about you charge half the price for a calyptratus + half the price for a gracilis. I think that would be realistic ;) I do find it interesting to read and see that these species hybridize, but I don't...

This photo was taken during a mating of my adult deremensis pair.

I was wondering when you would show us the babies :) Awesome!! Good luck with them!!

I have used both reptisun as well as repti-glo 5.0 tubes. Both are fine, but repti-glo has a more unnatural color than reptisun. I remember them to be really blue/purpleish.

I paid about the same for mine (Nikon though, but more or less the same). Maybe second hand? You might be able to save some money if you'd buy a lens without stabilization, but then you'd probably need an extra flash.