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Carlton hit the nail on the head. The problem with line breeding is not the breeding itself, its the selection of offspring to become breeders! More on this in a moment. First lets do a clarification of terms. Inbreeding refers to the breeding of very closely related animals, for several...

I've got mostly snakes. Probably around 90 now with babies starting to hatch, and going up every day! The complete list: 1 Flat Coated Retriever 2 cats 1 veiled 1.1 Carpets And the snakes include: Anthill Pythons, Kingsnakes, Cornsnakes, Milksnakes, Gophersnakes, etc. Mostly local...

Have you thought about trying some of the canned insect products? If he is already trained to eat from tonqs he will probably take them just fine. Some people are hesitant about their nutritional value but I have always had good experiences with them. I have always supplemented with wild...

No. Quarantine is absolutely necessary. Not that most people even do that properly or completely... but that's another rant. In that circumstance you are talking about a living animal which has a significantly higher likelihood of carrying large populations of potentially pathogenic organisms...

Oh and before someone comes back at me with the "foreign microbe" stuff... Lets get something straight. A healthy chameleons immune system is amazing. It has to be. Why? Because you have taken them around the world, put them in a house with about a million foreign chemicals, introduced...

I would love to hear from a single person who has ever had a branch from outdoors harm their pet in ANY way. Now lets see how many people have ever poisoned their pet with bleach... hmm... seen that happen more than once! I have done this my whole life and the most I ever do is a quick...

The idea was to build something that he can't get off of. In reality he can if he really wants too, especially if I am lazy about pruning the plants back. But the whole room is snake and cham proof so its all good. He has explored the room and knows that the most comfortable spot is his tree...

The dogs know the deal with all the animals. The cham hated the dogs for a while but now he will eat with them around. Still keeps a pretty close eye on them. They are only allowed in when I am there and they are going to be calm.

Does this count as a cage??? This is Mr. Fancypants and his homemade chameleon canopy. 2 live pothos, several real branches, and some fake vine. Snake room was still under construction so sorry about the mess. Next one I build will have natural vines that actually support the...

That "egg crate" stuff is used for lighting if anyone is having a hard time finding it, just check your local hardware store in the florescent department. Did you give up on the waterfall idea? It can be done properly but it is a bit of a project.

What species do you plan to keep in it? What you are describing can work just fine. If you have a front, top, and back that are screen you do not need to cut out the sides. I am assuming that this shelf is made of particle board or wood? If it is particle board and the parts that face the...

I have seen very long courses of baytril in hundreds of herps including chams and I have read their product saftey information and I really don't think that baytril is the culprit here. Maybe the straw that broke the camels back, but not the true problem. I do recomend that the animal be...

Kidney damage in chameleons is an EXTREMELY common problem. Even top notch keepers/breeders find some level of kidney disease on necropsy of animals that have lived to their full life expectancy. The drugs that your cham was on, for the time he was on them, would not have caused significant...

I know this is an old thread but its a common question "how long should my herp be on X antibiotic", so I thought I would throw in my .02 Chameleons immune systems are very slow. Antibiotic treatments must be continued for a long time. I think that the number one reason that bacterial...

Ok. Several things... and for what its worth I am a veterinary student specializing in reptiles. 1) Your female is gravid. At the time of xrays she had preoviductal eggs which means that she had ovum that are still attached to the ovary but are not yet in the oviduct where they will be...

Thanks for the responses. He was lucky that most of his bone problems seem to be in his extremidies and not in his legs/jaw ect. As far as his grip... He usually perches with only three feet and he alternates which one he rests. Also when he sleeps he does not have a tight grip (unless he...

No he is my only cricket eating animal so its not a big deal to feed by hand/tongs. Here is everyone else...

So I have a 13 month old male veiled who was a MBD rescue. Previous owner kept in a glass tank, no UV lighting, ect…you all know the story. I used to manage a reptile store that dealt with a lot of fresh imports so I have some experience with sick chameleons. But I have never had one that was...

I am not baking him. He has a huge gradient to hang out in. Directly under the hotest spot can get up over 100. He has lots of favorite perches at other temps (down to about 70) and he usually uses those. Since he was dark he obviously was trying to really elevate his body temp. I was just...

Over the past few weeks I have seen my male veiled basking under his lamp, almost black, and gaping his mouth. He has only done this a few times. Most of the time he is his usually happy green/yellow. His basking spot is about 105F. It looked to me like he was too hot, but why wouldn't he...