@Kahmeleonaire -Allow me to clarify some of the more hostile post you’ve received, mine included.
I don’t sugarcoat anything, I do this for clarity. Please don’t mistake my bluntness with malice.
This community is probably the most passionate group of keepers you will find. We are all volunteers, no pay. We go through dozens of posts every week, nearly hundreds and have saved innumerable chams from bad husbandry. Many of us spend hours a day here with no expectation of getting something in return. Like I said, passionate.
We see everything here, both success stories and horror stories. The member you spoke to last was one of our more recent successful turnarounds. We also see a lot of post from people who go out to Florida with the intention of catching and selling chams and their eggs for a quick buck. Then they think they can come here pretending to be a true keeper in order to tap our knowledge to learn just enough to keep these very difficult to care for animals alive just long enough to sell them.
Every one of those threads start off EXACTLY like yours did. You just joined this community and instantly started firing off all the usual questions and even posted the biggest indicator of lack of Cham knowledge there is: a pic of you holding a cham in a closed hand.
I will not apologize for assuming that’s exactly what you and XRay man we’re doing. But I will say I assumed it and could be wrong. You will receive absolutely no support from this community if we find out your not being straight with us.
Now onto your two chams. Yes, people do catch and sell WC chams, not as pets but to add fresh genetics to the captive breeding DNA pool. Both male and female WC chams do VERY POORLY in captivity, especially gravid WC females. It’s simply too much culture shock for them to bare. They stress to the point that they go into stress overload and completely shutdown. They won’t eat or drink leading to them being so weak they can not lay their clutch, go egg bound and die slowly over weeks of agony. Same for the males minus the egg bound issues.
Your handing that female a death sentence if you keep her, period. I implore you to at least release her if not both. If you want to learn to keep chams start with a single male, preferably CB. Once you’ve got it down then we can talk females, they are much more difficult to keep than males.
I am not the leader of this community, I’m a member just like you. But I have no doubt 99% of my fellow members will back up everything I’ve laid out above.
So, exactly what is your intent here?
