New to Chameleons

[Hargitai]

My name is Jason and I would like to get a chameleon, now as the title says I know very little about these creatures. Please can you give me links, tell me and advise me on there care. I am intresested in the Jackson Chameleon, but please help me with what type I sould get.

 

[hallenhe]

Look around on this site; other useful places are
<http://www.adcham.com/> (very useful general information)
<http://www.chameleonnews.com/>,
<http://www.lovein.com/JacknJill.html> (nice pictures of Jackson's; not much on captive care).
Check out the site sponsors (top right); most of them specialize in panthers and/or veiled, but you can get some care sheets and information from their websites. Jackson's want it cooler and more humid, on average, than veiled and panthers; otherwise, care is largely the same.

A couple of the books listed in the bookstore portion of this webpage have reasonably large sections devoted to Jackson's; many other more general books will give them at least a page or two. I have an older edition of "Chameleons - Care and Breeding of Jackson's, Panther, Veiled, and Parson's" by G. Ferguson, K. Kalisch, S. McKeown, and have found that book useful; haven't read "Chameleons in Captivity", but have heard good things about it.

 

[panthercham]

Look around on this site; other useful places are
<http://www.adcham.com/> (very useful general information)
<http://www.chameleonnews.com/>,
<http://www.lovein.com/JacknJill.html> (nice pictures of Jackson's; not much on captive care).
Check out the site sponsors (top right); most of them specialize in panthers and/or veiled, but you can get some care sheets and information from their websites. Jackson's want it cooler and more humid, on average, than veiled and panthers; otherwise, care is largely the same.

A couple of the books listed in the bookstore portion of this webpage have reasonably large sections devoted to Jackson's; many other more general books will give them at least a page or two. I have an older edition of "Chameleons - Care and Breeding of Jackson's, Panther, Veiled, and Parson's" by G. Ferguson, K. Kalisch, S. McKeown, and have found that book useful; haven't read "Chameleons in Captivity", but have heard good things about it.

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Above is great advice and you cant go wrong with reading this forum....I have found nothing better