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So Isambard is a 4 year old veiled. I feed him about 2 or 3 times a week on locusts and morio worms. This diet has served him well and he seems to never tire of it, I guess he's just not that fussy. The problem I have is with the worms themselves. When they arrive fresh in the mail I chuck a...

I've had enough of my plants always dying and Isambard's enclosure looks a little bit dingy so i've decided to get a grow light. I have no idea what i'm doing though so thought i'd ask here. Would something like this do in a normal desk lamp or do I need something else? I've heard the...

I'm really fed up with plants. I've tried Camellia, Ficus, Corn and Dragon. They were either crap or died, the ficus would drop its leaves even if I looked at it funny. The only plant that's survived and thrived is the pothos. At the moment I have a fatsia japonica in there, the pothos and a...

As i'm totally fed up of trying to keep my ficus healthy (keeps dropping leaves, almost bare now) I'm looking to get another plant, one that isn't so picky. Pothos is great, it seams to live through anything, I have a rather okish look camellia but the ficus is doing my head in. I can't seem...

So I finally managed to get a copy of Chameleons: Nature's hidden jewels from my local library, well I say local they had to order it in from Scotland. It's a fantastic book as i'm sure those of you who have read it already know. I came across the Knysna, or Bradypodion damaranum to be precise...

I have to move house soon and I will need to take Isambard out of his cage for this. I very rarely handle him, except when he walks onto my hand by choice. He's still only quite small but I will openly admit here that I am a wuss. I have never taken him out against his will, i've looked at...

Here's my little pal, Isambard: I uploaded a pic of me holding him, which is a rare occasion, to give an idea of his actual size. I've read chameleons generally reach full size at a year old but not sure how true this is. I can't help thinking Isambard is a bit small for his age and...

I have read lots of threads on this subject and have decided to put him in a shoe box with paper towels on the bottom and some holes punched in the top for air flow, is this ok? My main reason for this thread is actually getting him out of his cage. I've had Isambard for nearly a year and...

I am moving into my own place in September, no more sharing with strangers for me :D. Isamabard will of course be coming with me and will be housed in the living room. As there's no one in the house but me and as I can actually put all my stuff (which aint much) in different rooms, and...

My chameleon is only eating tow or three roaches/superworms every other day. He seems OK though, just don't want him going without. Also I still can't quite get supplementing right. It seems no matter how much or little I dust he has the white crust coming out of his nose. I now dust his...

Here's the man himself. Apart from his shedding skin how do you think he looks? healthy? he seems to be doing fine to me just wanted to get the opinions of more knowledgeable keepers :)

I can't get a pic of my chameleon but i've managed to track down a pic that gives an example of the colours he shows all the time, well, most of the time. He's slightly lighter than that but that's pretty much what he displays all the time, minus the spots on his legs and throat. On the rare...

I know this may sound an odd question but is there any cause for alarm if he's really active? for the past couple of days he's been kind of pacing his cage in a circuit. He'll come off his basking perch, go down between the plant pots, climb up the side of the cage then back round to the...

So I took Isambard out to bathe his feet in some warm water to get the last of the shed off his feet. I put him in the bowl, as soon as he felt the water he made a run for it! he's now hanging around behind my speakers, i'm able to reach him but he's having none of it. I offered my hand and he...

My veiled is 7 months old now. I've been feeding him medium sized roaches for the last two months which he seems to get down with relatively no problems. At what age do I move him on to adults? and do you think he's ready for superworms now? he still eats roaches but he must be really bored of...

This is an ongoing thing that I can't seem to sort out. Isambard sheds fine except around his feet. He last shed about two weeks ago but has recently started wandering around his cage and scraping his feet on the vines like he has an itch he can't scratch! Last time he shed I upped his...

Isambard, my veiled, is shedding again. Last time the skin didn't come off the toes properly and the dead skin turned brown. It didn't affect him at all but this time he's again having trouble getting it off his toes. I've sprayed them with warm water and he's now busy scraping his feet...

Rather than start a new thread for each issue I thought i'd make an all in one thread :D I don't think any of these issues are major but I thought i'd ask anyway 1. I'm having a bit of trouble balancing supplements. I supplement twice a week with nutrabol (multivitamin, calcium and D3) my...

I can't get a pic but my veiled has brown looking skin round his toes. I know this is due to the skin not coming off the toes properly. I doubt it's anything more because this has happened both times he's shed. He's absolutely fine, active, eating and drinking well. Is there anything I can...

I'm trying to handle my chameleon for the first time since I got him about 8 weeks ago. I don't wanna do this regularly but as you all know you need to handle them eventually for health checks, viv cleaning etc. Was wondering whether leaving a green gardening glove in his cage would help him...