Blue Meller Chameleons?

[Keiness]

Hey folks, I have a WC female unknown age (Commodore) and a farm bred unknown gender Meller(Rush) that's nearly 2 years old. Well, from a baby Rush always has a bit of a teal color, like he held his baby colors much longer and it seems to be intensifying and I doubt its going to go green now. He has very little yellow, the yellow bars are white, and the green is blue.

Is this common at all?

Day we got him.

A few months later.

Around a year old, last summer.

This summer,coming onto 2 years old.

Comparison.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

That 4th pic looks like he/she is very blue! I haven't really heard of a blue mellers chameleons but do you have more pictures? I think it maybe because of the lights? no?

 

[kinyonga]

S/he's very beautiful and healthy looking!

 

[jamncristian]

wow

I hope those genes will pass on....... if you know what i mean

 

[Keiness]

Kinyonga:Thank you, Rush has always been a good eater and drinker. Our WC female goes on random water and hunger strikes in comparison.

Jamncristian: Me too!!! I'm hoping so much Rush turns out to be a male for my older female. Though I have no idea how to tell, if not I'm going to be on a quest to find a male though its hard to get them in Canada.


CleaTheChameleon: Well he did brighten up with the natural light. Like how a regular Meller gets a nice lime green (you can see in the last picture our female to compare the green to blue coloration).

Here are two pics that have not been edited from the same day.

 

[chameleonneeds]

I think I have heard that you get some mellers from a certain location in africa where they can be quite blue or turquoise, I think it might be north mozambique.

Thats a very nice mellers by the way!

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

Wow he really may be kinda blue. He looks lovely

 

[ajacobson]

He's very pretty! Hopefully you can get a clutch of pretty blue babies from him and a girl.

 

[chams1]

There are a few difference "color phases" of melleri, depending on locale. This happens to be one of them and some of of this phase are a little more "blue" than others.

 

[Keiness]

Here's to hoping "he" is actually a boy. If anyone can point me in a direction to understand their body language when introduced let me know. There's various kinds of lobe flapping, though they are quickly separated if one shows stress.

That's fascinating about the locales. I haven't heard anything on it before, I wonder if there is one area that most come from. Thank you!

 

[chams1]

Here's to hoping "he" is actually a boy. If anyone can point me in a direction to understand their body language when introduced let me know. There's various kinds of lobe flapping, though they are quickly separated if one shows stress.

Go to www.melleridiscovery.com. You will find a lot of great information on there. Lobe flapping can mean a number of things from excitement to mating, to dislike and it is hard to distinguish many times between them. You just have to watch them for a long time and figure it out.

 

[Keiness]

Thanks, that site has been my bible for the past couple years. I was hoping to try and figure out gender clues from their actions, but i guess i'll have to keep guessing. No easy way to tell

 

[ChameleonRave]

Gorgeous!

 

[summoner12]

Very cool! My big guy Henry has some blue to him... but not blue like yours! Very pretty!

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

Hey got any new pics of this guy?

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

It has not been documented adequately about what color phases of Mellers there are for certain locals however there are color phases for this species similar although not on the same level/degree as a Panther or Parsons chameleon. The color variations that I'm aware of are Bluish Green, Green Yellow, and a Black and White adult color phase.

 

[Keiness]

Another picture for you guys:

I'm going to try and get the two of them outside again next week, to get a comparison of the color.

The two are now together, after about a year of small meetings so it wasn't all of a sudden. After the female started to not eat and drank little, I moved her to my boyfriend's care who she seemed to have always prefer. After being introduced, she is now eating and drinking more then ever and doing fantastic. I thought perhaps her seeing how well Rush (blue) ate and drank would stimulate her, and it did along with a keeper she liked better (oh well!). Perhaps not the most recommended course of action, but it worked for us. The first couple days Rush would flap the lobes a lot, commodore would watch and flap back now and then. Rush did stick his tongue out against her lower head, but she didn't respond. Occasional we will catch them nose to nose, but have not observed any aggression or hint to the gender of Rush or any other significant behaviors since. No stress coloration either. I sure wish it was either to tell genders apart!

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

WOW! They are still looking gorgeous!

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

It has not been documented adequately about what color phases of Mellers there are for certain locals however there are color phases for this species similar although not on the same level/degree as a Panther or Parsons chameleon. The color variations that I'm aware of are Bluish Green, Green Yellow, and a Black and White adult color phase.

They maybe unique phenotypes with in a population and not unique to just certain locals. As stated before the color phases of Mellers has not be well documented.

 

[ruru]

wow!!! beautiful!! good look with babies they would be so gorgeous!