Care of kinyongia oxyrhina
- Thread starter melrito
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This is all I could find...they are not an easy species to work with....
http://web.archive.org/web/20060824...ham.com/html/taxonomy/species/boxyrhinum.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060824...ham.com/html/taxonomy/species/boxyrhinum.html
Cainschams
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I have a couple articles if you PM me your email. My male was one of my easiest chameleons!! He wouldnt over eat, drank good etc. He did well in a 16x16x30 well planted screen cage.
When my chams are housed inside my room is between 70 and 78 ambient with 82 to 85 basking site. Humidity never below 60% and usually 70% with a night time spike. Night time temps dropping below 60. I cut my room off from all other heating in the cooler/cold months and use a space heater to control temps so at night the room can get nice and cool! When they are being housed outside temps range from 70 to 86 daytime with varying humidities. We have very close temps
Night time temps can get down to 45 before I bring them inside but they must be able to warm up well the next day. Of course they have plenty of shade, well planted cages and plenty of water when it is real hot. Mine are actually out now during this hot spell and I have seen no heat stress. They get plenty of drink ops and misted with cool water throughout the day.
I thought my male was pretty easy and he is still alive with showjet95 now. I do not have any experience with females. Dude ate any fast moving insect like crix, flies, hoppers, spiders, moths etc. I dont feed worm type feeders anymore due to most of my troop doesnt eat or never ate them.
I hope you have good luck with them and get some nice specimen!!
When my chams are housed inside my room is between 70 and 78 ambient with 82 to 85 basking site. Humidity never below 60% and usually 70% with a night time spike. Night time temps dropping below 60. I cut my room off from all other heating in the cooler/cold months and use a space heater to control temps so at night the room can get nice and cool! When they are being housed outside temps range from 70 to 86 daytime with varying humidities. We have very close temps
Night time temps can get down to 45 before I bring them inside but they must be able to warm up well the next day. Of course they have plenty of shade, well planted cages and plenty of water when it is real hot. Mine are actually out now during this hot spell and I have seen no heat stress. They get plenty of drink ops and misted with cool water throughout the day.I thought my male was pretty easy and he is still alive with showjet95 now. I do not have any experience with females. Dude ate any fast moving insect like crix, flies, hoppers, spiders, moths etc. I dont feed worm type feeders anymore due to most of my troop doesnt eat or never ate them.
I hope you have good luck with them and get some nice specimen!!
Cainschams
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The one pictured on kingsnake is a damn nice looking male along with the uthmoelleri male. Hopefully those are the specimens for sale. If so I am jealous!!! I also hope you get a female and she is in good shape
showjet95
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I have Jareds old male Oxyrhina and hes a tough little guy. Hes very aggressive towards me and will bite, hiss and if I get too close he will leap and fall to the ground and go into convulsions lol (could be an instinctual move to bury into the leaf litter in the wild). He LOVES hydei fruit flies and will eat crickets too but I would suggest blue bottle flies or fruit flies.
I would love to get that pair and let my male have a go at that female but I just purchased the Uthmoelleri pair from nick and dont have an extra $600 for the Oxys unfortunately. So Now Im gonna have 2 male Uthies to one female. Wish it was the other way around but oh well.
I would love to get that pair and let my male have a go at that female but I just purchased the Uthmoelleri pair from nick and dont have an extra $600 for the Oxys unfortunately. So Now Im gonna have 2 male Uthies to one female. Wish it was the other way around but oh well.
melrito
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Cainschams
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Yeah, the oxys are super shy!!! Much more shy than the uthies but they are really a neat chameleon.!
Cainschams
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I found that he is a really light sleeper but I never did notice him patroling at night or even just chilling out awake at night. It wouldnt take long for him to give me the stink eye when I was messing around the room at night though LOL!!
I would love to work with this species and uthmoelleri again but they are just too much $ and do not come in often. Even when they do come in there are so few
Cains said..."I would love to work with this species and uthmoelleri again but they are just too much $ and do not come in often. Even when they do come in there are so few"...its been a problem with so few of any species coming in (besides panthers and veileds) at any time and then never coming in again for years. It makes it difficult to learn much about any species and hard to learn how to hatch/raise them too.
Seeco
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Ya well for the distributors it is best to scatter their quota to different countries -- a pair here a pair there -- that way it is nearly impossible for a breeder here to get a good colony going and compete with them in the market. It also increases the value and price of the one pair they DO send.
Even with that one pair all you need to do is hatch out 4 babies and you are officially the biggest breeder of the species. I think you should go for it. The animals are here in the states now so someone might as well take a shot at breeding them!
Even with that one pair all you need to do is hatch out 4 babies and you are officially the biggest breeder of the species. I think you should go for it. The animals are here in the states now so someone might as well take a shot at breeding them!
showjet95
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and thats what Im trying my hardest to do with my favorite species, K. Uthmoelleri, if I can get just one of these 2 males to mate with the female and to at least get a couple babies from it I will be more then happy!
Melrito, if you get your oxys to breed and wanna sell her to me, Id pay a pretty penny for her! Or I could sell you my lone male that Im sure is pretty damn horny by now being all alone for so long;-)
Melrito, if you get your oxys to breed and wanna sell her to me, Id pay a pretty penny for her!
Or I could sell you my lone male that Im sure is pretty damn horny by now being all alone for so long;-)
Cainschams
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They look nice!!!! Its great to see a female since there are so few pics of them. I hope you have great success!! Im first on the list for offspring
cosmic charlie
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They look nice!!!! Its great to see a female since there are so few pics of them. I hope you have great success!! Im first on the list for offspring
i'm second!!!
