chameleon

just doing a bit of reashearch on chameleon's and some people say you dont dust the food and other places say you do... which one is right????

Some people say you don't dust livefood because it stops their tongue sticking to it. But everyone i know who has has had one, sais it wasnt really a problem. So... unless you find any good reasons not to... i dont see why not.

thank you that helps alot just having a look at them because my boyfriend want one ... he got me my gecko for my birthday so im thinking about getting him a chameleon and thats the only thing i couldnt find a good answer for so thanks

I know a really good cham forum. I considered one for a while until I found out how difficult they were to care for and that they usually only live about 5 years on average in captivity. Some can be very aggressive, they require VERY specific housing and husbandry our they go down hill very fast. You can't handle them as much as leos as it really stresses them. Chams are definitely not a beginner herp. On the plus side they are beautiful- if you get a male, females aren't anywhere near as pretty and colorful and breeding can be quite difficult.

sorry this is loaded with negativity but chams aren't an easy keeper. I'll pm you a link to that forum so you can learn more.

yeah can you send me the link please because its for my boyfriend and he likes a challenge as he keeps marine fish and they are very hard to look after and he has done well

That's good thing then. He could be up to the challenge. I'll get it to you as soon as I can.

ok thanks

Heyy.. we have a chameleon at college. When they got him he was soo skinny and little.. and now he is HUGE, he has grown so much. They are very fussy lizards.. they don't drink water unless it's sprayed onto leaves in their tank. They have to have a very strict humidity and heat mixture to survive. But that's all I know about them.

I have some photos I took of him at the end of last year when he was small. They have a special branch that they put him on when they are cleaning his tank out.. the photos are quite small. sorry




Isnt he beautiful??
I am sooo fascinated by their eyes.. it's sooo cool to see them move in person

they can become stressed very very easily too, and can actually die from stress. Its important to give them a stress free life.

Which would mean limited handling unfortunately from my research on them the nosey bee and the nosey fala have some of the better personalities. Also because of how they drink they get dehydrated very easily. You have to either must them by hand or an auto mister at least 2-3 times a day. Lots of time and devotion needed to successfully raise chams.

sarah yeah your right there you have to spray the hide so that droplets drop off the leave and they can see them because they dont reconise still water and you can get a waterfall for them which im goin to do and spray the hide also to make sure he/she gets enough water, well my boyfriend will when i buy him one lol im doin alot of reasearh for them.

jorden, yeah i have hurd they can get stressed easy and trust me we wont let that happen, well we will try our hardest not to ofcourse

kermit, as i said to sarah im getting a waterfall and my boyfriend will spray the terrarium often to try and stop dehydration... and trust me my boyfriend has the time to do it as he cant work and is home all the time so really it will give him something to do lol

Well, Good Luck with getting your Chameleon and Keep up the research

I hardly know anything about chameleons.. I couldn't look after one atm soo I'm not very interested in them.. but they are beautiful ^ ^ especially the yelman? chameleon

Yemen, Sarah lol. Yemen Chameleon.

yeah thats the type of chameleon im going to be getting for my boyfriend well it is actually a piebald yemen chameleon

Actually water falls aren't really the best things for them. The mister would be a better option honestly. The waterfalls are very difficult to maintain and usually break. Most chamowners usually end up ditching them and switching to misters. Also a screen cashew is recommended as air flow is another big issue for chams. They don't use hides like leos do, they need a well foliated habitat and they hide in the foliage.

well if you keep up with the cleaning of the terrarium then it wont break will it i want to make sure he has got a constent water supply like i say if it dose break then it dose but my other half will tackle that when it comes to it and we are not gettin one for about 4 months anyways so alot of time to sus things out , my other half has a 4ft marine fish tank im sure he can manage to maintain a little waterfall

Jordan wrote:Yemen, Sarah lol. Yemen Chameleon.

Sshhhh! Like I said, I don't know much about chameleons sooo I don't remember their names. I like geckos :P Im a gecko kind of girl.

piebald chameleon? must be a pretty expensive its piebald.

Are you sure not a normal morph would be better for the first one?
Its just with such a hard reptile to keep, it might not be best to pay for a rare morph as such.

its not that exspencive its only £80 quid and thats all they sell round my town lol so havent really got alot of choice and dont really want to order one becuase it would have to travle and that would stress him/she out but i do want to see if i can just get a normal yemen , they basically the same thing just one of them has white feet lol

Yeah Piebald means that the body hasnt created coloured pigment somewhere, so in this case the feet. I guess its a common thing then in chameleons.
In most animals that have a piebald gene, e.g. snakes, it can put the price up by thousands.

Its still to be found in leo's.

Piebald in chams isn't any more common than it is in any other herp. Ive never heard of a yemen cham. Gonna have to google that one.

yeah

Well I thought I'd take some pics of the college chameleon for everyone to see

I noticed that they are not as clear as I thought when I took them.. but ohhh well you can still see the pretty little dude =]

he's nice isnt he

Yeah I want to handle him.. but they are abit cautious about that soo not many people get to