Hello Chameleon Wranglers! I would like to announce the launch of the Panther Chameleon Podcast! Whereas the Chameleon Academy is more exploratory (and will continue on), the Panther Chameleon Podcast is a tutorial outreach for keepers joining the community via getting a panther chameleon. It...
@SteveH, @Beman The Draft button didn't work as expected and the half finished blog was shot into the universe! But I went in and added the links so all should be good now! Thanks for the notice!
As a breeder, cage manufacturer, and educator there has been a growing struggle within me over how to deal with the difference between common breeder husbandry and the husbandry I am working to advance through my Chameleon Academy outreach. New ideas, such as fogging, are much more easily...
Well, I THOUGHT I had not published the blog yet! But there are a whole lot of views for an unpublished blog in draft mode!!!! Looks like I had better clean it all up ASAP! o_O
I just released a podcast episode that goes into my thoughts on longevity in much more detail. You can listen to it here in the Chameleon Forums by pressing play below. You can hit play and you have great background discussion while you clean chameleon cages!
I am thinking, if we keep working at it, we will be able to get our chameleons to live their genetic potential. But I think the benefit is not simply chameleons living abnormally long lives, but that the husbandry that gives them these long lives will ensure that the bulk of the community has...
Germany is reporting over ten years for a Veiled Chameleon, but we won't know whether that is a genetic potential or an outlier until we have more data points. We are exploring old age in a creature that would rarely, if ever, die of old age in nature so I imagine we might run into strange things.
I have been thinking a lot lately about our mission to give our chameleons a long, healthy life. We have come far in our husbandry! If I was asked the question, “how to give a chameleon a long life” I could easily spend a year going through everything we have talked about in eight seasons of...
I am glad the interviews helped at the right time! Unfortunately, fogging is at a very primitive level when it comes to the equipment we have available to us. I look forward to the day where we have better foggers for reptile use. Any entrepreneurs out there want to take this one?
I, too...
I would be very interested in how you solve the pink slime issue you are seeing as that would be valuable information to pass on to anyone that runs into the same problem.
Fogging is becoming a primary, if not only, hydration method for a number of chameleon keepers. Fogging replicates a cloud enveloping the chameleon in the early mornings of their natural habitat. The part which confounds us humans is that it appears that chameleons can be fully hydrated from...
Southern California has many climates and they will not all sustain xantholophus. It works well at the coast and becomes progressively more challenging as you get further away. In recent years we have been seeing many more days over 100F and higher temperatures when it does go above 100F. It is...
oh, I have thought of this many times! But the problem is that there are so many variations. We were having this debate in the early 2000s and I got a recording of an actual Malagasy saying Nosy Be and it was No-see Bay. I think it would be a good episode. I just need to be savvy enough to...