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Not all chameleons are hatched from eggs! Jackson Chameleons, also known as Three Horned Chameleons carry their young to live birth with 6-30 babies born in a clutch after a 5-6 month gestation period. The sub-species, Dwarf Jackson's Chameleon gives birth to only 5-10 young. All other...

Littlefoot is a female Dwarf Fishers, about 1 yr 6mo -1 yr 9 mo (former "owners" unsure) I've had her for just over 7 months. She comes out of her enclosure at her request, she claws at the opening. I attach a vine to the opening and she climbs out. I have a parachute cord "trail" for her that...

I hear so many things about UVB lights. Some say to change the bulb every six months, but the manufacturer says their bulb emits UVB rays for a full year. Then there's the question about strength. What is best for a chameleon, 5.0 UVB or 10.0 UVB, and why? I am about to hit that 6 month mark...

My female has not been eating for three days. I ran through the regular checklist of reasons why and could not figure out why she would not be eating. She laid eggs in late September. She did shed her crown (head only)over the last week or so and I thought maybe she was going to shed the rest of...

So this is the first question in what will become a statistical chain of questions. As the next question is added, it will directly tie into the entire chain, which will become important to future chameleon keepers. Please only answer the question being asked. Don't anticipate what comes next...

I was curious about whether crickets would chew on the edges of a common calcium source, a chicken eggshell. I cracked some eggs for breakfast, and after eating the eggs, I washed the shells under warm water to remove all of the egg remnants, leaving nothing but clean dry eggshells. I dropped...

I let my Dwarf Fischers go free range every now and then. Recently I noticed she was biting the calcium buildup from the edge of a flower pot. I freaked out a little and pulled her away and put her back in her enclosure. I was worried she would get either too much or too big of a piece. Then I...

I just spent the last two days building an outdoor enclosure for my little Dwarf Fischers, It's 1/2 inch hardware cloth which I stitched together to make a perfectly smooth seam. It's about 28" tall and round with a 15 1/2 diameter. Anyway, she seemed very much upset by me taking her outside and...

I sprout seeds on a daily basis so I always have fresh sprouts. While I was setting up a jar for a new batch (It takes 3 days from seeds to sprouts.) I had a brain storm. I have a Zoo Med 79 ounce The Little Dripper. I was having to only use it every 6 days or so, otherwise it was overfeeding my...

So now I'm not sure of my girl's age. At first the previous owner said she was 3 months old when she got her 7 months ago, so I figured 10 months old. In an email to me this week, she said my girl was 6-7 months old when she got her, so now maybe she's 13-14 months old. Anyway, she had laid eggs...

I dusted 5 crickets for my girl this morning, and she ate all 5 within a minute. Obviously the dust doesn't bother her. Now I need to give her a dose of Repta-Boost, and it seems like it might be a real hassle. I can't imagine how I'm going to get her to take medicine from a syringe. So, how...

There is a beautiful plant being sold at Walmart and other stores called a ZZ Plant or just a Z Plant. It is really good looking and the claims are that anybody could grow one without killing it, but it could kill your little buddy. All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested. The...

I get 100 crickets at a time because the shop I use has a punch card system making it necessary to get 100 at a time. I have a cricket keeper that is supposed to support 120-135 crickets at a time, but there seem to be a lot of dead crickets in the enclosure after a night or two. On the average...

Fluker's sells a product called High Calcium Cricket Diet, which says it provides a vitamin/mineral gut load for my pet. It says that it adds a nutrient rich gut content to the cricket's protein. Would this be sufficient for a chameleon? It seems it would be a lot easier than changing gut load...

I got a Dwarf Fischer's from someone a couple days ago. She is 9 months old and her body is about 4 inches long. The person I got her from said to feed her 5 medium crickets every other day. The cham seems ravenous and seems to like hunting. I put one cricket on a cluster of leaves right below...