Here are the quad babies, as promised!

[joshdhensley]

Well, they are still hatching but here are a few pics. No hate replies about holding the baby so soon, but I just wanted to show the size of a brand new born. He is doing fine by the way.

 

[Kent67]

Cool, i get to be the first to reply on this thread! Nice work, Josh! I think you should handle that baby all you want! Thanks for sharing the pics. How many are out now, still just the one?

 

[joshdhensley]

3 as of now.

 

[Woodinville]

Awesome babes! I'm fairly new to the forum. Questions for you: What is the scientific name for quads? (I'm guessing that means 4 horns). Are they in the same genus as Jackson's? Where did you get yours? Thanks

 

[sarah777]

Too cute!!! Congratulations!!

 

[joshdhensley]

Chamaeleo quadricornis. The guys at LLL got them for me.

 

[Sang]

They look terrific. such a great species.

 

[PardalisGirl]

No hate here....

No hate here....just love....Congrats on the new baby. How many total eggs in the clutch? Take more pictures with a group of the babies

 

[Cainschams]

VERY NICE!!! Definatly more pictures hahaha. Keep us updated!!

Congrats!

 

[summoner12]

congrats! very cool

 

[laurie]

Those babies just got you off the s**t list!! They were worth the wait but where are pics of the other 2?? You did promise us pictures.......... Nothing deserves to be that cute,can we have pics as they grow up, you know at least every 2 weeks???? please??????????

 

[joshdhensley]

I will keep pics posted. When all of them hatch, I will get a group shot.

 

[blackbetty]

I was just reading an article on these in the Aug 07 Reptile Mag. very neat things. Hard to keep I hear, though.

Congrats, they are adorable.

 

[eisentrauti]

Awesome babes! I'm fairly new to the forum. Questions for you: What is the scientific name for quads? (I'm guessing that means 4 horns). Are they in the same genus as Jackson's? Where did you get yours? Thanks

Their full name is Chamaeleo trioceros quadricornis quadricornis, the other subspecies is called Ch.t.quadricornis gracilior. They are from the "cristatus group" like, cristatus, eisentrauti, camerunensis, montium, pfefferi and some other species.
They mainly live in Cameroon and are all egg-layers. They don't have big clutches and not so easy to keep as many other Chameleons.
Jacksonii ssp. are also part of the subgenus Trioceros, but those species are not so near connected.

 

[joshdhensley]

I really don't find them hard at all to keep. Just keep them cool and humid.....

 

[eisentrauti]

Nice work Josh ! It's very good that some of you here take the care for some incredible montane trioceros species for serious ! Keep it up !

 

[laurie]

I want one of those little ones sooooooo bad. But humidty I can do, cool temps more challenging and hard to keep, maybe I'm not ready for them yet.

 

[AJA]

Way cool. What are your plans for them? Do they have little nubs where their horns should be? Were the parents WC?

 

[joshdhensley]

I want one of those little ones sooooooo bad. But humidty I can do, cool temps more challenging and hard to keep, maybe I'm not ready for them yet.

I live in San Diego a few miles from the beach and do not have A/C, the Quads are indoors in a cut out in my wall and at room temp. I find that with the fogger and daily misting, it is easy to keep the temp down. What is the temp in your home on average?

 

[Sang]

well considering my conditions here in arizona, i know i can manage a 40% humidity pretty constantly..


and spikes up to 80-90? im sure i could keep humidity up more?

ambient unfortunatly is about 77 and 76-73 at night...



how do you think they'd do in my enviroment?