Pssh - The point is that your lack of experience with raising babies, let alone montane babies, makes you fail to recognize the intricacies associated with their care. As a result, your good intentioned recommendation is no longer a benefit but a hinderance to everyone, particularly those that don't already know that they should take what you say about these topics as a grain of salt. You may think its insulting but its true, you shouldn't be giving advice on things you are clueless about.
Baby Jackson's chameleons are no more prone to impaction then pygmy chameleons which we recommend for fully planted enclosures all the time and do great in them. Chameleons do come across soil in the wild and amazingly enough they haven't gone extinct. Well cared for chameleons should not ingest a significant amount of soil and the small amount they may ingest during feeding should pass fine.
Regarding the height of the enclosure, the two inches lost by the soil is an inconsequential height difference. The benefit of the soil is far outweighed by the loss of 2" of height.
just curious chris...dou you ever have more than 3 nice words to say to anyone or are you always so crucial to people....
'Tis a rare event that some believe could trigger the end of the world, but a couple fortunate people have witnessed such a moment. I think the word you were looking for was "critical", though
In all seriousness, I simply have no tolerance for people who make things up and give bad advice on topics they don't know a thing about. Its a plague on this forum! It endangers people's animals and the last thing I ever plan to do is encourage it.
The errors in some of what you brought up, Courtney, have already been outlined so I'll save us both time and simply let you know that adding a charcoal layer and establishing a springtail colony will help eliminate fungus issues in the soil. The last thing you want to do with baby montanes, however, is add additional heat form an under tank heater and pacman frogs don't make for good cage mates.
your the Dr. House of the forum...
I like that, I may have to talk to Brad about letting me use that as my user title, kind of like Kent's "Advocatus diaboli" and Tyler's "Right Wing Extremist".
Chris
Of course then you would have to cycle the tank again and put the seahorses in another tank in the meantime. Sounds a lot more stressful to the animals to me.
