I am looking for advice on making dowel rods look more like something found in nature.
I am open to almost all options. Basically I am building latices out of dowel rods to support a vine system and live plants.
Here's what I was thinking.
Paint the dowels with a latex based paint (one...
Music of Tara Crowe
Sorry I haven't been around in forever (like a month or 2 lol) been so busy. Just got back from a seeing a good friend of mine's performance at Club Vertigo in Sciota,PA was a great time.
I managed to get one good video of her performing "You were meant for me" by Jewel...
A mister is the best choice. Foggers don't do the job in screen cages and humidifiers won't provide the water droplets needed for the chameleons to drink.
One nozzle is fine for a 2ft x 2ft x 4ft cage. The lowest model you can add upto 10 nozzles, if you don't plan on having alot more cages that's the way to go.
Extra nozzles are $15 and tubing is $0.35 a foot.
You dust them the same as crickets.
The main benifits of dubias over crickets are:
Next to no smell
No vocalizations
No Die off (like crickets have)
Grow slowly
Have long lives (12 to 24 months, grow to adults in 4 to 5 months)
No jumping
Slower
Definitely female, male have a distinct row of scales just in front of the vent and in mature adults bulges after the vent.
Great pictures , I could never get mine to sit still long enough to take pictures like that lol.
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It is hard to guess the age of a chameleon. My guess would be 1+ years old (he could easily be 2 or 3 years). If you know his local that would help at more accurately guessing his age.
If he cup feeds put a dozen or so insects into the cup and see how many he eats in an hour or 2. That should...
My older sister had piranhas a while back (20ish years or so). We learned one thing, Piranhas and hamsters don't get along well.
The hamster lived in a cage above the tank, somehow it got loose and fell off the shelf and into the piranha tank.
Not sure of his parentage, got him from a fellow forum member when he was 14 months old.
I use Rep-Cal (with and without D3 as scheduled) and Hertivite (once or twice a month).
I think my scale is busted, I looked thru my records I hadn't weighed him in a couple months (May of 2011) at that time he weighed 180 grams. I don't think hes grown much, I have a friend with a good scale so I will try to re weigh him in the next few days.
If my male weighs about 350 grams (not 100% sure on that, my scale kinda sucks..) 7 to 8 inch snout to vent. The Female weighs in at about 62 grams and about 4.5 inch snout to vent now. How much should the female weigh before it is safe to attempt to breed them?
This will be my first time...