Actually he started hand feeding on day one, what happened was he had actually got lost in the mail for to days and for a 16 week old that is a long time, so im sure he was quite hungry, so the first time i fed him from the box was by hand feeding, however he would not even get near me, he would...
it took 1 month of feeding by hand everyday the first few crickets or horn worms. lots of patience i would put the horn worm on my wrist everyday and for the most part he would just stay back and shoot the worm off of me, today he ran up and stepped onto me, i was definitely on cloud nine.
I know this isn't the lizard lounge, but I am just so excited to share with my Chameleon comrads that my little kamer had graduating from hand feeding to holding my finger!! I was yelling across the house "get the camera," "get the camera!" Here's my shots.
I am not saying intentionally stress out your chameleon, BUT a common question i have seen on the forum is "are these colors (usually dark) stress colors or what do they mean?" So lets provide colors of chameleons that are showing different colors and what they mean in the description! This...
Is the top of the cage screen? If so the slimline good is fine but most people will recommend reptisun 10.0 bulb if you have a screen top or Arcadia t5's
the caulking was really done badly, not to offend you, just make sure you apply liberally and use your finger to press the caulk down into the corners and then wipe your finger off and repeat until you have ran your finger along the entire edges
you can just get a small hand vaccumm and move the egg cartons and the alive ones will run and hide and then you can vaccuum up the dead ones and poop, you will keep them alive much longer.
cricket when they die give off a small amount of gas that are poisonous to other crickets... Chain effect so what you are doing be keeping it clean is a good thing. keep it up :D
you did not mention a basking light at all, he should have lights on for 12 hrs and lights off for 12 hrs every day, get them on a timer, also get a light dome with a dimmer, petsmart sells them pretty cheap for under 20 dollars, and put a 60 watt bulb in it and place it over the highest area in...
depends if that is all you are going to buy at the reptile show, you can go to the show with the cheapest online prices of everything you need and go to the show with print outs and they will match those prices nine out of ten times, then you pay five to get in and that resembles the cost of...
Hey just so you know they do mist the chameleons at least twice a day at petsmart, I am not defending the rest of their lack of care but i said the same thing about the water bowl to them and their response was very political which was we do mist and understand that chameleons need a moving...
No but my daughter has and she says it is like a squeeze not painful at all, they can grow fast but if you measure temp by a window that has a draft and are getting reasons in the mid 50's than you can slow their growth to almost nothing
worst hobby ever for a budget.. but good news is, get a fresh poop and just bring the poop only to a reptile vet and the fecal alone should only be like 30$ or less!
My backround, 27 year old, manly man, Marines... I just shed a tear, that is awful, I hate losing pets, I love them as much as i love my children, so difficult, condolences aren't enough, just breathe, dont beat your self up to much, that bird could have snuck up on you no matter what..