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Anyone know offhand which subspecies he is? Xanth?

@jajeanpierre yes, I've been following your thread about the WC trade & your mellers, and I saw the necropsy photos. I'm sorry for your loss. I'll remember that about the crickets. I do leave a bit of food on the floor for them, also. I never feed big crickets anyway, they're all sub-1in. Good...

Congrats! Great shots!

They were small gut loaded crickets. I had read at one point that if crickets were left in there when the chameleon was asleep or unresponsive that they might take a bite out of him, and that stuck with me. It was also, like you said, a panic response to see if he was OK. He seems fine today...

Thanks @Virgil1972 that's good to hear. He was sleeping when I got home, in an odd spot near the bottom, not his usual perch up top, but from what I can tell he ate at least six crickets after he fell.

@brownie64 I think he hit his side a bit on the grape wood, but it happened so fast I couldn't tell. He seemed to be moving fine afterward, and he was dark, but I couldn't see any immediate injuries. His eyes were open and moving fine, and he wasn't favoring a leg or a side.

Clovis fell about 30 inches, and glanced off of a piece of grape wood toward the bottom. My fault, I was adding a new vine for him and I shook his branch by accident. I feel so bad. He froze on the bottom and turned super dark. I tried to get my fingers under him after a bit, because there were...

Thank you both!

Awesome pictures. Great setup!

Thank you all for your help with my various husbandry questions. Here is Clovis--we're through week one and he seems to be a pretty happy lizard.

@Andee I will do that. I'll make sure it's nice and quiet for him. I also plan to vary his diet as much as I can, which I'd imagine is especially important for a wild caught. Thank you!

I'm not an expert, but it sounds like she's too hot.

@jajeanpierre I tried the ReptiRain, but it broke on first use (when I plugged it in, the nozzles were closed, and I immediately shut it off, but the brief pressure was enough to break something inside the unit and it started leaking from the bottom). In the meantime, I have been misting heavily...

@Andee that's a shame about your girl, you're in a tough spot with having to stress her out in order to care for her. It sounds like she's in great hands though. Hopefully she warms up to you soon! Thanks @brownie64 ! l was very surprised when he took the worms. He really shied away when I...

Not to commandeer the thread, but I've been following along and picking up some good info...do I have to worry about my Jackson crawling around on the ceiling? 75W heat bulb sitting on top of the screen. He seems to shy away and turn around when he gets to the heat bulb and stay under the UVB...

Good luck to her and you! Keep us updated.

Really? He's slimmer and smaller than two females at the local pet store, who I'm told are themselves 5-6mos. The avatar pic may be deceiving--he was just out of the box after the drive home and puffed up some. Here are a few more pictures, one with a quarter for point of reference (he was...

Update--the two crickets are gone, he's out and about, and his yellows are showing nicely, even with me gawking at him.

@jajeanpierre he has eaten a few crickets with me in the room--with me standing there filming him, no less--always free range. He backs away from the cup. It's just the last day or two that he hasn't hunted, and has seemed more preoccupied with climbing around upside down, going right by a nice...

@KLowery88 my understanding is he comes from a relatively local breeder, and that he never endured anything worse than a long car ride. He is young, though, and has had to learn his way around a few new enclosures. Now he doesn't seem to want to eat. He's still having bowel movements, though...