good for you your cham eats fruit beetle larvae, mine ignores them completely because they don't move and wiggle around as much as mealworms and silkworms! :(
i paid 6 euros for like 7 of those and my cham didn't even try to eat them ! thanks god i also have a red eared slider (or terrapin as u...
thanks! it's basically made out of an old bookcase. i took out the shelves and put plastic mesh around the bookcase's metal frame . i cut the front part of the plastic mesh to make the cage door and sewed "velcro" on the door edges to make it easy to open and close it.
it's very simple but it...
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I noticed that my cham's eyes are slightly swollen, he doesn't close his eyes during the day and he behaves normally (hunting drinking etc..)
He is shedding right now and I'm misting him a lot more than usual, could it be that all the water I'm spraying is irritating his eyes?
I also...
i know this thread is old as.... but i'd really like to know how to recognize an obese cham, so it would be useful if somebody could post some pictures of very fat chams (especially veileds). i only found pics of females with eggs...but it's not the same! (or is it? I dunno!:p)
started searching reptile forums about proper turtle husbandry in summer 2010 and found out that there was (quite a lot of) people actually keeping and breeding chameleons. 3 months after that I went to a reptile show near where I lived and came back home with a tiny 4 in. baby veiled which has...
you are right olimpia, especially in the early documentaries in the 70's they used a lot of "tricks" to make it more spectacular. even Jaques Cousteau used to do that a lot :rolleyes:
however, fight between males can be pretty hardcore in some species and in chameleons even if they don't hurt...