Wrobio
New Member
Hello, everyone.
I'm new here on chameleon forums and thought I'd introduce myself.
I have been deeply infatuated with chameleons ever since I was a small child reading magic school bus books, which feature a Jackson's chameleon. As soon as I got my own place, I started planning to get a chameleon. After all my research, I still met with so much negativity about keeping chameleons from the local herp community that I ended up starting with snakes. The snake addiction grew rapidly, and while in college I decided it was best not to jump into chameleons since I already had to dedicate so much time to snakes. Over the past 6 years I took in several chameleons as rescues, but found myself in situation after situation where my lack of experience with them just repeatedly led me down the same grim path of failure. While discouraging, this also furthered my convictions to put the effort into really working with chameleons as soon as I had the time to give them what they need. Now that I have graduated from college and taken some time to settle into a new job, I am starting plans for building and establishing a nice enclosure before I seek out my first planned pet chameleon (it will definitely be a male Jackson's).
My greatest success in chameleon rescue was with 2 month old female Jackson's that had survived a fire a store where I used to work. She survived in my care for until she was 8 months old, at which point she died due to complications with all the scar tissue built up in her lungs from the fire.
That's the basics of my background. I look forward to sharing more with all of you and learning lots as I move into this new phase of reptile keeping.
Cheers,
Robin
I'm new here on chameleon forums and thought I'd introduce myself.
I have been deeply infatuated with chameleons ever since I was a small child reading magic school bus books, which feature a Jackson's chameleon. As soon as I got my own place, I started planning to get a chameleon. After all my research, I still met with so much negativity about keeping chameleons from the local herp community that I ended up starting with snakes. The snake addiction grew rapidly, and while in college I decided it was best not to jump into chameleons since I already had to dedicate so much time to snakes. Over the past 6 years I took in several chameleons as rescues, but found myself in situation after situation where my lack of experience with them just repeatedly led me down the same grim path of failure. While discouraging, this also furthered my convictions to put the effort into really working with chameleons as soon as I had the time to give them what they need. Now that I have graduated from college and taken some time to settle into a new job, I am starting plans for building and establishing a nice enclosure before I seek out my first planned pet chameleon (it will definitely be a male Jackson's).
My greatest success in chameleon rescue was with 2 month old female Jackson's that had survived a fire a store where I used to work. She survived in my care for until she was 8 months old, at which point she died due to complications with all the scar tissue built up in her lungs from the fire.
That's the basics of my background. I look forward to sharing more with all of you and learning lots as I move into this new phase of reptile keeping.
Cheers,
Robin
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