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Hi all! I'm thinking of getting my first tattoo soon, and I love the idea of a chameleon design. Do any of you have chameleon or other reptile tattoos? Show them off here! I need some inspiration!

Hi everyone! My two year old male somehow got a cut on his chin awhile back, where the scales had peeled away. It seemed like it was healing until recently, when I noticed more gray patches showing up on his chin in the area of the wound. All of his other colors are bright and happy, but he has...

Hey all! So I know our chameleon loves aren't exactly the brightest of creatures, but are there any kind of toys or enrichment activities we can provide to them? My boy's favorite activity is sitting perfectly still on his favorite perch, and he usually is pretty mad if you try to move him...

I took Jabba out of his cage this afternoon, and he was in a HORRIBLE mood! He was fine when I was moving things around in his cage and getting his food ready, but once I got him on my hand and pulled him out of the cage, he started flaring and hissing like crazy! He clearly wanted me to put...

Hey guys! So I work at a pet store, and we have a juvenile male chameleon in right now. He appears to be no more than 2 months old, but he seems oddly fat. This is how he looks normally. He can puff up and get even bigger, but he doesn't seem to make himself skinnier. Is this a sign of...

Hey all! Just wondering, has anyone taken any effort to trim their cham's claws? I'm asking because I often take Jabba with me for educational herpetology events/shows, which means he's walking around on me and other people sometimes. It was no problem when he was younger, but he's grown so...

Hey all, I really hope this is just me being a paranoid first-time cham mom again, but I just noticed this little kink at the end of my boy Jabba's tail. I just noticed it yesterday, and a friend said it may have happened suddenly, since she had not seen any problems about an hour before...

Hey guys! Hopefully this will be a short thread. I'm just a paranoid first-time chameleon mom, so I don't exactly know what's normal for a growing cham yet. My guy is 8 months old and seems mostly healthy--he's active, he has insane grip strength, and he eats and poops a LOT! But I just noticed...

Hey chams and chamettes, I keep a couple live plants in Jabba's enclosure, and rotate them out weekly. However, some of them have slowly died over the course of several weeks due to rotted leaves. My roommate (also my personal Plant Doctor,) told me that leaf rot happens if the leaves are...

Hey guys! So I know chams should be able to eat fruit flies (I know they sell those wingless ones at my local pet store,) but would there be a problem with my boy eating "wild" fruit flies? It seems some random flies have started a sort of colony in the soil of one of my live plants, and have...

Hey all! So I made a huge mistake and accidentally left a container of meal worms out of the fridge for too long, and now half of them have formed weird wriggly cocoons! I don't plan on breeding them, so I was wondering if my boy can still eat them in this state. Mealworms are usually his...

I've seen a few people on here mention "showering" their chams, either during or outside of their regular misting. Is it necessary to give them a "shower" every once in awhile? I'm asking because I mist my guy regularly 2-3x/day, but he really doesn't enjoy the water--he's always trying to get...

Hey guys, My little guy Jabba is somewhere around 6 months old now. He's always been a really chill guy, and very good with being handled! He never stressed when climbing around on me, and he was even fine being handled by people he didn't know! (Even fell asleep once on my friend who he'd...

Hello friends! I've been around on the forums for almost a month now, and I'm so excited to say I finally took my beloved baby cham home from the pet store I work at! His name is Jabba, we guess he's around 6 months old, and he is full of personality! I just finished setting up his cage...

Hello again, chameleon forums! So I've finally decided to commit to taking home my favorite baby boy from the pet store I work for. :) (Thanks everyone for the advice on him!) I've got a cage with vines and a water dripper on hold for me so far, but I need some advice on misting. I won't be...

Hello, chameleon forums! I'm a brand new member to this forum, though I've been lurking around here for quite awhile. I'm a big fan of chameleons and reptiles in general, but haven't owned one before. You all seem really nice and super helpful, which is why I'm going to ask for your honest...