Huge thanks again to everyone who's posted. All the clues seem to point to him being a male carpet chameleon. I have some learning to do on these guys and if anyone has carpet chameleon specific resources I'd welcome any advice!
wow, yeah, i googled that and it's REALLY similar. Are the graceful/flapnecks and carpet chameleons very similar? Those seem to be the 2 closest matches here. You all are AWESOME!
Right!? I don't know much about females so i thought maybe she'd set it up for egg laying, but that doesn't make sense, they thought it was male... :unsure::unsure::unsure::unsure: and yeah it's an exoterra.
It was a friend's 17 yo daughter's cham so i'm sure she got him somewhere locally here in Austin, we have a couple cool exotic animal stores. The enclosure he came with is really nice,but kind of small. it's fully planted but it's glass on all sides except the top, with coco fiber substrate.
Yes, always green with the white stripe. varies from almost black specs on brownish yellow to bright green, but not like a veiled or panther coloration.
I'm pretty confused as well. the base of the tail about 1/3 of the way down is really thick. and i don't know when panthers develop their colors but s/he's pretty basic green.
I had a male veiled before, he was awesome. He sadly passed a year or 2 ago, around the age of 8.
I was recently given a chameleon by a friend's friend who was moving. They told me it was a male veiled juvenile. They also said they had him for about a year. Now that i've had him/her for a few...