A question to answer your question: What do you think, how often have chameleons in the wild the chance to eat a nest of young mice ? Yes, never. So why feed them ? Locuts are healthier than them and they are natural food source
Well, I wont fight about taste, but a protean glass terrarium looks way better than those cheap looking exo terra tanks, half plastic half glass, with front doors which didnt close enough to put any small insect in ;)
Another example is a cage like this
which looks like a Ferrari compared to...
I have this number from a document from the CITES comittee. The big range follows from extrapolation of smaller areas where the animals were counted more or less exactly.
To get come back to my point: Even if it are "only" 4 Million adults, a quota of 200-500 animals wont have a noticeable...
Yes, thats a very good point ! I bet many or nearly all dream of visting the natural habitats of their animals. So in combination this can probably help many persons in those country.Everything is better than especially Madagascar is doing at the moment
Small quotas for nearly all species if they are WC (20-1000 specimen) and legal ways to export real CB juveniles from all species. And I bet smuggling will be destroyed !
This thread shows just that there are many hypocritical people around with NO knowledge in this business. Closing the import doesnt save animals. It will change the trappers work from a legal to an illegal basis, cause many will work then in the future for smugglers. How naive can someone be to...
To ship from Canada, is definitly very expensive ! Bechsgaard needs proper papers, perfect shipping boxes plus the shipping itself. I hope you didnt compare it with the price I gave you
In November will be a meeting between the authorities and the wildlife exporteurs. For them this action can destroy their work, so I think they will do everything to help the authorities in the investigations
I dont know your financial situation, but do you know Terry Thatchers cages ? Those are definitly the best ones, but they have a HUUUGGGEEE price tag ;)
For the chameleon it doesnt matter, but for humans wingless are in most cases better ;)
A culture is normally a small plastic container with substrate/food for the larvaes and the flies, which can produce several generation if the culture works perfect
One important thing to mention: As long as the chameleon has the option to warm up under a spot, the chances are very low that the temps can get too low. In autumn on clear days when the sun is shining intensely on the day it's getting really cold during the night, sometimes under 0°C. At least...
at least the compact ones are very problematic:
http://www.uvguide.co.uk/phototherapyphosphor.htm
https://www.chameleonforums.com/repti-sun-10-0-bad-13376/