Styx
New Member
I’m new to chams, kind of. Not to lizards, and not to reptiles. I have been keeping reptiles all my life, but have been keeping them seriously for five or six years now. This is my first year breeding reptiles.
I have been researching chameleons for three years now. I love everything about them; I love their structure, their behavior, their colors, their personalities, their little feets… But I’ve been too chicken to go buy one. All the work and care they need freaked me out. I really have my heart set on a male nosy be panther, but I didn’t want to spend $400 on a cham and do something wrong. You know, a lot of money for a first cham. But I didn’t really want to go and buy something for less as a ‘starter’ that I didn’t really want all that bad either. So… I just pined and researched for three years.
And then my friend called me up two weeks ago- said she had a baby lady veiled with my name on it. Wrong gender, wrong species, but it’ll do. lol She’s sending her in a week or two if she survives that long. We’re unsure; as all the cham’s clutchmates died of a viral infection in the shop a week after my friend picked her up. She says the baby cham looks fine and is eating and drinking, so we don’t know if the others picked it up at the shop or what happened.
I’ve made a list of everything I need, and I’ll be attending the Wasatch Reptile Expo and speaking to Bluebeast Reptiles – for the third time. I e-mailed them the year before last, and last year I spoke with them in person also.
I have my cham checklist, Reptisun 5.0 bulbs, an array of heat bulbs, thermostat, two cages, plus some other stuff, and I’ll be picking up plants for her to hide in (and snack on) probably the day after the expo. And I’m making my own drip system. I already have calcium, minerals, and all that fancy jazz for my other reptiles. I already have sticks galore, I have many sticky footed friends, so I’ve got a lot of extra climbing supplies… I also have a very large vivarium for outside time when the temperatures are right.
So, I figured it was time I registered on a cham forum.
I have been researching chameleons for three years now. I love everything about them; I love their structure, their behavior, their colors, their personalities, their little feets… But I’ve been too chicken to go buy one. All the work and care they need freaked me out. I really have my heart set on a male nosy be panther, but I didn’t want to spend $400 on a cham and do something wrong. You know, a lot of money for a first cham. But I didn’t really want to go and buy something for less as a ‘starter’ that I didn’t really want all that bad either. So… I just pined and researched for three years.
And then my friend called me up two weeks ago- said she had a baby lady veiled with my name on it. Wrong gender, wrong species, but it’ll do. lol She’s sending her in a week or two if she survives that long. We’re unsure; as all the cham’s clutchmates died of a viral infection in the shop a week after my friend picked her up. She says the baby cham looks fine and is eating and drinking, so we don’t know if the others picked it up at the shop or what happened.
I’ve made a list of everything I need, and I’ll be attending the Wasatch Reptile Expo and speaking to Bluebeast Reptiles – for the third time. I e-mailed them the year before last, and last year I spoke with them in person also.
I have my cham checklist, Reptisun 5.0 bulbs, an array of heat bulbs, thermostat, two cages, plus some other stuff, and I’ll be picking up plants for her to hide in (and snack on) probably the day after the expo. And I’m making my own drip system. I already have calcium, minerals, and all that fancy jazz for my other reptiles. I already have sticks galore, I have many sticky footed friends, so I’ve got a lot of extra climbing supplies… I also have a very large vivarium for outside time when the temperatures are right.
So, I figured it was time I registered on a cham forum.
