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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...

Ha that's chameleons for you. Mine is 4 years old and I've handled him about 10 or 15 times in that period. I just don't bother to even try, it's not that he gets particularly angry, he has his moments, it's just that he clearly would rather be left alone and that's the case with about 98% of...

Excellent, thanks :)

Well i've heard of it but only on here :D We have B&Q and Homebase.

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...

Could someone tell me whether or not this would be ok please? Thanks.

They're also called umbrella trees too aren't they?

Where do you get them from? Seriously, i'm at my wits end with trying to find plants for Isambard. I really don't know what i'm doing wrong, they either arrive too short or too weak for him to climb on. I actually have more trouble with the plants than Isambard himself!

Would something like this be ok in a standard desk lamp on top of the enclosure?

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...

Chameleons need to be supplemented with calcium and vitamins. By the sounds of it you need to do quite a lot of reading to get yourself up to speed on caring for chameleons. You need to buy some calcium and dust the crickets lightly everytime you feed your chameleon. Vitamin supplements is...

Wow they look beautiful :) I'd be interested in reading your article when you write it.

LOL I thought that might be the case, a man can dream though eh? :) Good read on that link.

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...

My chameleon goes by the name of Isambard, I think it's a good solid name. Never call him Izzy though, it annoys both him and myself :mad::p

Yeah I admit it did sound a bit wishy washy! What I meant was that I was simply just getting used to touching him because i've had him for nearly a year and i've barely ever touched him. I'm really not trying to bond with him in the traditional sense, although he 9/10 doesn't mind me being up...

Yeah I know that, i'm really not trying to interact with him. If you read the rest of the thread you will see that i'm moving house very soon and i'm trying to handle him now so I can get him out without stressing him too much on the day of the move. I'm also trying to do it now so I won't be...

OK, so over the past couple of days i've been somewhat bonding with Isambard :D. I've now gotten over the whole shaky thing I had and have begun gently stroking him under his chin, he changes to a light colour so he obviously likes it :). A couple of times he's even strolled onto my hand with...

The food thing used to work when he was a nipper but he's got wise to it now :D. Mind you he hasn't had any wax worms in a while so maybe that'll tempt him. I was the same when he walked onto my hand, I was shaking like a leaf! But now it's fine so i'm sure it will be the same when I take him...