jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
I'm getting a juvenile male T. quadricornis!!!! I now understand how easy it is to become a collector.
I finally found a really super reptile shop and saw some species I had never seen before. I fell in love with both the Muellers and the Trioceros quadrocornis. The sail fin on the back of the quadricornis is just magnificent.
Pictures do not do these chameleons justice!
I loved the Two-Horned Mountain Chameleons, but the owner steered me away from them as they were quite demanding.
I will pick up my male in the first or second week of January, once the owner is sure he is eating well and healthy and recovered from his ordeal of getting to the US. He'll be housed in the back of the store so he won't have to put up with any customers tapping on the glass. I'll need that much time to set his cage up and learn all I can about caring for him.
I'm not really happy about it, but he is a "farmed" chameleon from Cameroon. "Farmed" seems to mean they fence off part of the forest and let the animals breed (maybe free from predators) and then the young ones are collected.
Apparently the shipment of the Two-Horned Mountain Chameleon is the first into the US in many years. My T. Quadricornius came in that shipment.
I was really impressed with the store. The animals looked in really good condition, even the ones that had arrived from Africa yesterday. The cages were big and stuffed with live plants and fake ones if the live ones couldn't reach the top because the cages were too tall. They do most of their business online, but the enclosures were big and pristeen.
I'll have to do a lot of research, especially since my new guy is basically a wild caught.
Very excited!
I finally found a really super reptile shop and saw some species I had never seen before. I fell in love with both the Muellers and the Trioceros quadrocornis. The sail fin on the back of the quadricornis is just magnificent.
Pictures do not do these chameleons justice!
I loved the Two-Horned Mountain Chameleons, but the owner steered me away from them as they were quite demanding.
I will pick up my male in the first or second week of January, once the owner is sure he is eating well and healthy and recovered from his ordeal of getting to the US. He'll be housed in the back of the store so he won't have to put up with any customers tapping on the glass. I'll need that much time to set his cage up and learn all I can about caring for him.
I'm not really happy about it, but he is a "farmed" chameleon from Cameroon. "Farmed" seems to mean they fence off part of the forest and let the animals breed (maybe free from predators) and then the young ones are collected.
Apparently the shipment of the Two-Horned Mountain Chameleon is the first into the US in many years. My T. Quadricornius came in that shipment.
I was really impressed with the store. The animals looked in really good condition, even the ones that had arrived from Africa yesterday. The cages were big and stuffed with live plants and fake ones if the live ones couldn't reach the top because the cages were too tall. They do most of their business online, but the enclosures were big and pristeen.
I'll have to do a lot of research, especially since my new guy is basically a wild caught.
Very excited!
