Crested/Fringed Chameleon
- Thread starter ColeCham
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Brad Ramsey
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I am assuming you are referring to Trioceros cristatus?
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ColeCham
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Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
I have them.
What do you want to know?
Here is the e-zine article:
http://www.chameleonnews.com/?page=article&id=51
I wouldn't put much stock in what adcham has to say about the species.
-Brad
What do you want to know?
Here is the e-zine article:
http://www.chameleonnews.com/?page=article&id=51
I wouldn't put much stock in what adcham has to say about the species.
-Brad
ColeCham
New Member
Anything at all, I fine the species looks amazing. Are they hard to take care of? How much does the price range? What would I need to house a male?
Brad Ramsey
Retired Moderator
They should be considered an advanced species, but as with all chameleons, and particularly the montanes, captive bred specimens are much hardier.
I keep mine in fully planted enclosures that are wood on 3 sides with a screen door and top.
Minimum of 2 decent mistings a day.
Temperature should not go above 75 degrees and they rarely bask (although it has been reported and I have seen mine occasionally basking) if you provide a basking light it should be a very low wattage.
An exo-terra would work well as an enclosure too. 18x18x24 would be the size I would recommend.
All the plants should be live.
I supplement very lightly and not very often, calcium w/out D3 and once every couple of months a small dose of preformed vitamin A.
I feed 2 or three appropriately sized insects every other day for an adult animal.
5.0 Repti-sun tube and a plant light provide the lighting.
This species spends a decent amount of time on the ground, the enclosure should have an organic soil substrate with a bottom layer of hydroton and charcoal for drainage and to keep any water that makes it through the soil fresh.
isopods and springtails can be used to help keep the substrate clean as well.
-Brad
I keep mine in fully planted enclosures that are wood on 3 sides with a screen door and top.
Minimum of 2 decent mistings a day.
Temperature should not go above 75 degrees and they rarely bask (although it has been reported and I have seen mine occasionally basking) if you provide a basking light it should be a very low wattage.
An exo-terra would work well as an enclosure too. 18x18x24 would be the size I would recommend.
All the plants should be live.
I supplement very lightly and not very often, calcium w/out D3 and once every couple of months a small dose of preformed vitamin A.
I feed 2 or three appropriately sized insects every other day for an adult animal.
5.0 Repti-sun tube and a plant light provide the lighting.
This species spends a decent amount of time on the ground, the enclosure should have an organic soil substrate with a bottom layer of hydroton and charcoal for drainage and to keep any water that makes it through the soil fresh.
isopods and springtails can be used to help keep the substrate clean as well.
-Brad
Dez
Chamalot Chameleons
We use to have moss substrate at the bottom of the cage but took it out because it was hard to keep clean...never thought of charcoal.
I find our male sitting in the plant pot a lot.. sometimes he burys his entire head in the dirt. I assume he is looking for grubs or wax worms. I have caught him doing this a few times and then later see he has climbed back into the tree.
Ours never bask..that I have seen.. and seem to become more active in the evening.
Lizardboy76
New Member
Hey Brad do you have any for sale
Cainschams
New Member
Honestly, I think that any cham can be a good species to care for as long as you have the right details to keep them and of course......luckily get good specimen. Ask away! It seems you like the species other than panthers and veileds which many people do not for certain reasons. The point is, know what you want to keep and know that you can keep it in the conditions it needs to be kept in. THEN!!!!hope for a good specimen. You wont find many CB specimen other than veileds and panthers.
