With my animals?.? My female layed eggs in December...My male has always been real 'trim', especially compared to his sibling. At over two years old, regardless of how much he ate, he never developed a 'gut'. The females kind of had to be kept in check with their weight...The would never stop...
This guy is one of the offspring from female #3...He was labeled as 'Big/Major Red'(red/blue dot) by StudioCham when he was younger.
Here is a video of him trying to mate with the female from my avitar pic (Megana's illegitimate daughter:)).
She obviously doesnt want any...she layed infertile...
Right now I have 5 melleri adults and 4 of which were Captive Hatched. When I aquired them, 2 of them have severe burns, but were in the process of healing.
The first two that I aquired at younger ages, then raised them using 40 and 60 watt bulbs. The one(in my avitar) got a slight burn on...
I would imagine that it would depend more on their sexes than their size...
If the smaller one is a male and the larger one is female, it would be okay to introduce them while there is a good size difference...
I would imagine that if the larger one is a male and the smaller is female...It...
Yeah, the female is about two inches shorter than the 'other' cham from nose to tail.
They seem to be calming down a bit though. The first week I put them back together...they were literally on edge. They would not eat in front of me or even drink infront of me...They are cooling down a...
Oh, also, part of the reason why I separated them to begin with was because the larger/NONshy melleri that did not lay the eggs was getting 'walked' on all over. There were always claw marks along its dorsal ridge. I would catch the more shy/female basking while resting on the larger ones back...
They are probably just feeling eachother out again...
I had two WC Phelsuma standingi that were housed together for a while, then separated, and then reintroduced to eachother...They used to get along fine, but they really hated eachother when I reintroduced them. I still have the one female...
Well, the door is open on the cage and they have vines connecting it to a big ficus tree...I have three separate basking spots for them...The space isnt really an issue...I just thought it was kind of odd the way they became so defensive of eachother.
I dont think they mated...they have a...
They are in a 200+ gallon reptarium that is inverted. It is open with a big ficus tree connected by vines. They were housed together for a long time. But, after she layed eggs, I separated them so that she can gain back some weight. They were both very cool/calm compared to any chameleon...
This pic shows my female who had recently layed her first clutch of infertile eggs...Since I reintroduced her with her former cagemate about two weeks ago, she has become VERY shy...always hiding from me behind her branches...Neither her, nor the other one were shy/timid towards me when they...
Also, in the wild, the closer to the beginning of the food chain we go, the less likely an animal is to survive.
But, in captivity, we have the ability to give ROACHES a 100% chance of survival...let alone the lizards that are above them on the chain...
Reptiles have a great advantage in...
It depends on what I was buying...some people pay a lot more just for that inbred animal...
Albino boas have many more complications when producing albino offspring as compared to normal phase boas, but is that cruel? Its obviously not an inferior animal if it is being raised in captivity...
I guess no one in this forum posts in the leopard gecko forum...
The difference between natural selection, that occurs in the wild, and selective breeding, which occurs in captivity, is that with selective breeding the goal is achieved thousands of years sooner.
EVERY domestic dog was bred...
people are playing god when they cut the grass...and reproduce...
Hey if it is legal to fly to SC to marry your first cousin, it should be perfectly fine for you to do it with your chameleons...
It is genetically sound for humans to reproduce with their first cousin, as long as it isnt...
English Mastifs cost a whole lot more than a mut at the shelter, but you will still have people buying a $2,000 dog that only lives 5-8 years as opposed to a mut that would live much longer...
People tend to prefer RARE animals...Why would someone want a chameleon as opposed to a goldfish? Because it is more rare and different.
Every color morph/locality is a result of selective breeding/ genetic isolation whether in captivity or in the wild. No big deal...
Inbreeding is...
Yeah, I ve read the melleridiscovery pages... I actuallly got these two from the author...
I was just trying to gets some additional info from the posters on this forum.