Jevin
Chameleon Enthusiast
Just starting this thread to see how many people had luck with their first pets being a chameleon.
I'll start by saying that I had actually a great amount of success, my first pet ever was a female veiled, who grew up to be the size of some small males, laid eggs like a machine and was as friendly as could be. Surprisingly, despite her being my first pet, she lived to just shy of 3.5 years despite laying infertile clutches of 60+ eggs every three months, and me being completely new to both reptiles and chameleons.
Looking back, I can see that I had some shortcomings, and while the caresheet I was given from the breeder I purchased her from was adequate, it did however have some issues, mainly with habitat design, suggesting either sphagnum moss or coconut fiber to be on the bottom of the cage. This did however not prove an issue as she was always fed by hand or from a cup.
In addition, in the years since she passed, I realized that a lot of the stuff I was told from her breeder and also aspects of her cage that was designed by her breeder were wrong. For example also saying to feed her daily and give calcium with d3 and multivitamins on a weekly basis. And suggesting calcium with phosphorus and the cage setup from the breeder lacking sufficient cover, a decent automatic mister and very few climbing routes.
So in the end, how many of us had success stories like this and how much was learned from the time of getting our first chameleon to the time of getting our second chameleon.
I'll start by saying that I had actually a great amount of success, my first pet ever was a female veiled, who grew up to be the size of some small males, laid eggs like a machine and was as friendly as could be. Surprisingly, despite her being my first pet, she lived to just shy of 3.5 years despite laying infertile clutches of 60+ eggs every three months, and me being completely new to both reptiles and chameleons.
Looking back, I can see that I had some shortcomings, and while the caresheet I was given from the breeder I purchased her from was adequate, it did however have some issues, mainly with habitat design, suggesting either sphagnum moss or coconut fiber to be on the bottom of the cage. This did however not prove an issue as she was always fed by hand or from a cup.
In addition, in the years since she passed, I realized that a lot of the stuff I was told from her breeder and also aspects of her cage that was designed by her breeder were wrong. For example also saying to feed her daily and give calcium with d3 and multivitamins on a weekly basis. And suggesting calcium with phosphorus and the cage setup from the breeder lacking sufficient cover, a decent automatic mister and very few climbing routes.
So in the end, how many of us had success stories like this and how much was learned from the time of getting our first chameleon to the time of getting our second chameleon.
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