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My male Ambilobe has taken to climbing the sides of his screen cage, and slides down, some times falling. It worries me that he is going to hit the bottom to hard (standard white pvc) or hurt his feet. I dont think there is anything I can do but put more branches in. I plan on getting more vines...

I have a female ambilobe that layed a clutch on the 19th of last month, and was down to 36.5g after laying and was 55g before I introduced the male. She is 48g now. I have been feeding her all the roaches she wants and horn worms. She looks much better, but has folded skin and in thin, but not...

I got some hornworms in today, and am feeding them by letting them crawls around on a stick (dead/sanitized). If I left a few in the enclosure and they happened to get on and eat some ficus tree would it hurt my chams? I am pretty sure its something I should not do, but figured I would run it by...

Ever catch yourself having a conversation with your lizards? I am talking full on conversation with something that cant reply here. I just looked at my male and said "your fat, you really need to cut back on the roaches man. Ya ya ya I know I'm the one the gives them to you, I should not have...

I was into monitors, boids, and hots for a long time but had to take a break due to being laid off. I always had my eye on panthers but never acted on it. Right now I have 1.1 Ambilobe, and am love with them. I am not sure what it is, but they really excite me. I finally got my misting system...

I just re organized my room, and I looked over and my gravid female has dark and orange and digging dirt. I have a question and an interesting note. 1) how long until she is done laying? Also, my male has had his breeding colors on most of the day which had only happened when he saw the female...

I got a new 24x24x48 cage the other day and its great. I have two problems though. The door hinges were riveted in wrong so the door is a pain to open and close. I can fix this by bending part of the frame, which I feel is too weak and I am going to build some supports for anyway. My second...

I was misting the branches of my male Ambilobes free range area so he could drink and he walked up to the spray bottle and started licking the nozzle. I squeezed it a little to let a drop out and he opened his mouth. It was not a defensive "gape" but a "common man I want some water" so I sprayed...

There are lots of post on the internet, and on this forum about the best foods to feed feeder roaches. I feed mine vegies like green/red leaf lettuce, green peppers, sometimes a little spinag, apples, bannana's, and cat/dog food (which is in there at all time. I keep turks and dubia's. How about...

I have a 12 month old (in 4 days) female Ambilobe that is 9 1/2" and 52 grams. She looks fat and is very lazy. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm hoping her weight is normal and that she is not carrying infertile eggs. I give her as many turkish roaches as she will eat every day, and she usually leaves...

Hey guys, I am not good at sexing chams yet. I have 4 month old "female" ambilombe. I am not sure because of her stripes and color. She is sometimes the peach/brown color, but more often has some sort of pattern. Sometime I see light reds and even more often and stronger yellow. Her sister...

I have two female Ambilobes born just a couple days apart. They are about 4 months old now and one of them is twice the size of the other one. They are being housed exactly the same (cage, plant, temps, decor, ect), and being offered the same amount of food. Obviously the larger one eats bigger...

I think that I find my roaches just as rewarding and interesting to keep as the things I feed them too. I only have Lateralis and Discoids right now, but thinking about jumping on the Dubia bandwagon and see how they match up to the Discoids. I consider them pets now. It was not the same with...

I got a new colony of discoids to replace my lobsters (not fond of them...). I see a ton of info on dubia, but nobody seems to be hyping up the discoids as much. I have read that discoids are a little faster and some say breed slower than dubias. They/ seem to be so similar. Why do so many...