L1z4rdB0y
Member
First off I want to thank everyone!!! Your guidance and advice is priceless!!
When I was 5 or 6 I wanted a chameleon. So my folks got me 3 or 4...American Chameleons. It was the late 70's, Chicago, no one in my family knew what the heck I was talking about. They're all a bunch of Mopar gearheads and don't know an Anole labeled as an American Chameleon is not really a chameleon. The kid wants a lizard, the sticker on the cage says Chameleon, done. *sigh* I love'em. They try.
Over the last 40 years I've gotten into all manner of fish, dabbled in various reptiles, and mostly avoided things with fur. Other than trying a Jeweled (?) Chameleon 20-25 years ago with no knowledge and expected results I never had gotten around to getting and successfully keeping a Chameleon.
I've been around the block, so I decided to take another shot at it but this time approached it with the mindset of setting up a specialized aquarium instead of a goldfish tank. That meant research. Thankfully we have the intertubes and THE GOOGLE these days as opposed to 30 year old books at a public library. Needless to say my Googles kept leading me back here so I just stayed and lurked and read and YouTubed.
The Triceracop known at Detective Ronald Nathan Harris has been living with me for 6 weeks. His apartment is lavish and has already been renovated once (another renovation is scheduled in a week or two). He is eating and drinking and running around the cage blowin' away perps without even questioning them, just as good New York City Cop circa 1976 should!!
This community taught me how to swim in the deep end of the herpitological pool and I can't thank you enough. I'm going to tread water for a bit before I move on into deeper waters.
I've created a video series on YouTube that I'll update as time allows, showing what I bought, how I configured various aspects, what works and what doesn't, etc.
This 6 year old is frakkin' happy!
Jackson's Chameleon Cage Setup
When I was 5 or 6 I wanted a chameleon. So my folks got me 3 or 4...American Chameleons. It was the late 70's, Chicago, no one in my family knew what the heck I was talking about. They're all a bunch of Mopar gearheads and don't know an Anole labeled as an American Chameleon is not really a chameleon. The kid wants a lizard, the sticker on the cage says Chameleon, done. *sigh* I love'em. They try.
Over the last 40 years I've gotten into all manner of fish, dabbled in various reptiles, and mostly avoided things with fur. Other than trying a Jeweled (?) Chameleon 20-25 years ago with no knowledge and expected results I never had gotten around to getting and successfully keeping a Chameleon.
I've been around the block, so I decided to take another shot at it but this time approached it with the mindset of setting up a specialized aquarium instead of a goldfish tank. That meant research. Thankfully we have the intertubes and THE GOOGLE these days as opposed to 30 year old books at a public library. Needless to say my Googles kept leading me back here so I just stayed and lurked and read and YouTubed.
The Triceracop known at Detective Ronald Nathan Harris has been living with me for 6 weeks. His apartment is lavish and has already been renovated once (another renovation is scheduled in a week or two). He is eating and drinking and running around the cage blowin' away perps without even questioning them, just as good New York City Cop circa 1976 should!!
This community taught me how to swim in the deep end of the herpitological pool and I can't thank you enough. I'm going to tread water for a bit before I move on into deeper waters.
I've created a video series on YouTube that I'll update as time allows, showing what I bought, how I configured various aspects, what works and what doesn't, etc.
This 6 year old is frakkin' happy!
Jackson's Chameleon Cage Setup
