Ever seen this?

[jones5233]

Well I go back fixing to mist my cham's cage and when i look around i don't see him. then i look in the water bowl and he is just sitting there looking out lol. It is not a deep bowl like 2" H or so. I use it for my dripper. So my question is has anyone ever saw a cham do this?

 

[eisentrauti]

There's a Calumma or Furcifer species which even dive to get some watersnails !

 

[jones5233]

well he is not one of those. he is a senegal which would be in the same group as panthers and veileds

 

[ChamNovice]

well he is not one of those. he is a senegal which would be in the same group as panthers and veileds

panther is a furcifer paradalis. I know they are not a snail diving cham though.

 

[Dunnigan]

well he is not one of those. he is a senegal which would be in the same group as panthers and veileds

different species.

I have seen people put screen over the bowl and hold it on with a rubber band. When i got my guy the breeder told me chameleons were capable of drowning in the smallest amount of water, this was when my guy was small.

 

[jones5233]

well i know they are different but the care is the same with the 3. So that is a normal situation then?

 

[eisentrauti]

Hi,

the care isn't the same. If your are interested in the topic, on adcham are some describtions of the Calumma and Furcifer species and at one of the are the diving chameleons. I think it was a Calumma hilleniusi

 

[jones5233]

Hi,

the care isn't the same. If your are interested in the topic, on adcham are some describtions of the Calumma and Furcifer species and at one of the are the diving chameleons. I think it was a Calumma hilleniusi

I am not talking about your "diving" Chameleons. I am talking bout panthers, veileds, senegals, jacksons, etc. MOST of the care is the same between them. end of that

Sorry if i sound offensive. its just i am not wanting to talk about the species of chameleons. thats not what this thread is about.

 

[Kent67]

I found one of my Ch. (T.) jacksonii jacksonii females almost completely submerged in water once. I had left the mister on for several hours outside and the water was not draining from the bottom of the cage, leaving a couple inches of water on the cage bottom. She was clinging to the base of one of the cage's climbing branches with only her nose and top of her back above the water. I thought she had drowned but she gaped and swung at my hand when I tried to pick her up. I haven't offered her a "swimming pool" since.

 

[brighteyez]

Well I go back fixing to mist my cham's cage and when i look around i don't see him. then i look in the water bowl and he is just sitting there looking out lol. It is not a deep bowl like 2" H or so. I use it for my dripper. So my question is has anyone ever saw a cham do this?

Yep! When I first got my jackson, I had him in a glass cage with a little water dish to catch the dripping water, and he would do that fairly often. Don't know why exactly. Maybe because the glass didn't provide enough air circulation and he wanted to cool down??

 

[jojackson]

No ive never seen it, I dont give mine a bowl. If next summer proves as hot as this I may give
a shallow bowl a go. Sounds like something a cham might do when opportunity strikes,
rain puddle or something.

Eisentrouti, I never heard of diving chameleons, but it sounds incredible, Id love to read about them!
Im going to look up the name and see what I can find.

Found this but couldnt find anything about the diving behaviour

http://www.adcham.com/html/taxonomy/species/chilleniusi.html