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Good Afternoon Everyone, I am a veterinarian and a chameleon keeper who has been a forum member for a few years now. I have created a survey designed to identify and quantify husbandry strategies that are associated with longer lived panther chameleons. The goal will be to identify these...

Have any keepers with experience keeping older panther chameleons altered husbandry at all for their older animals? Spicoli, my male F. pardalis, is almost 6 now. I wish he would live forever, but he has slowed down quite a bit in recent months. No specific health problems to speak of, I am just...

Hello All, I have a 36" quad t5HO fixture from Odyssea - it has worked well for about three years, but yesterday two of the lights started flickering. My understanding is that this indicates a ballast is going out (the pairs are on separate switches). Has anyone ever tried to replace ballasts...

Hello all, I have decided I am going to phase out my dubias and replace them with... something else. The primary reason is that their tendency to "play dead" (or at least not move at all) in the food dish or feeder run means that they don't trigger a feeding response. My panther chameleon...

Hello All, This is a question for the NorCal forum users primarily but anyone can chime in - has anyone seen any katydids yet this year? I feel like I used to see them all the time over the summer. I'm wondering if it's too early in the season, or if our insect apocalypse is whittling down the...

Hello All, I have been collecting high-quality out-of-print herp husbandry books lately - it seems that with the dawn of the internet comprehensive husbandry guidelines written by people with listed credentials who also cite sources to support their claims have largely gone the way of the...

Hello All, So with with the weather about to get chillier, I am a few weeks away from my annual "switching of the bulbs" where I swap out my 75 watt incandescent basing bulb to a higher wattage 150 watt basking bulb (both are always hooked up to a thermostat but my local summers get quite warm...

Hello All, I am moving soon and will need to take apart my grown in bioactive setups in order to be able to move them. I knew this was coming, but it's still sort of a bummer. I figured I'd share them here, so we can all enjoy them before I have to start over. My cham is timestamped if you...

Hello Everyone, I'm continuing my YouTube series on reptile husbandry that I have internally dubbed the "I am still locked inside" series. I made a video detailing five of my favorite plants to use in reptile enclosures (and all of which I use in my bioactive chameleon setup). I am sure...

Howdy Everyone, I'm under quarantine in California and am losing my mind to boredom. I made a show-and-tell video of my panther setup at the roughly 1 year mark that I figure I'd share here for any interested parties. I've had good luck with my plant collection and have about fifty different...

When did dubia roaches first become commercially available? And when did they become as widespread as they are now? I started out keeping reptiles when I was a kid in the late 90's and early to mid 00's. Back then, the insect feeders commercially available were crickets and mealworms, with the...

Good Evening All, I've seen a few posts recently about bioactive builds and lighting. I thought I would share the enclosure I setup for my two year old panther Chameleon Spicoli back in December, with lighting and drainage specs for anyone trying to build something similar. Spicoli in a 36" x...

Good Morning, I run an ultrasonic humidifier into my chameleon's enclosure. I pipe the fog in with a vinyl tube and keep it set fairly low to increase the humidity without shrouding the animal in fog. I'm pretty good about cleaning the humidifier itself, but I noticed today that the tubing...

I am in the early stages of planning an enclosure remodel for my two year old panther chameleon, for both practical and aesthetic reasons. I have some creeping fig (Ficus pumila) left over from another project, and I think it would look good climbing up the vivarium backdrop. From my cursory...

Good Afternoon All, So the takeaway to the attached novel is that I'm looking for some community input on my chameleon's health issues. I have taken him to an experienced exotics veterinarian and I am a veterinary student myself. That said, chameleons are unique animals, and it can be tough to...

Hello, I have a question for members who have administered oral baytril to their animals: for how many days did you have to give baytril? And did your vet have you administering every 24 hours or every 48? Thanks.

Does anyone have experience with this subspecies (T. j. jacksonii) or know a good breeder to purchase from? I've seen some pretty spectacular colors on these guys, compared to the solid green of the xantholophus, though I'm not sure if those colors are representative or just the most strikingly...

Good evening all, So I am looking to upgrade my chameleon's cage in the near future. Currently I'm using a slightly modified bird-cage (2' by 2' by 3')...

I have a positive update regarding my chameleon's condition: After 12 days of treatment for an oral infection he has improved noticeably (See: https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/assistance-needed-palliative-care-for-sick-jacksons-chameleon.146572/). His mouth is almost entirely healed and...

Good Evening All, My Jackson's Chameleon is fairly sick from an abscess turned mouth-rot that developed very quickly over the holidays. I've taken him to the vet, and she gave me ceftazidime injections I need to give him every three days along with subcutaneous saline. I also need to swab his...