Tegu sploots on the hot pavement, so i guess its a reverse sploot. Pavement is so hot he does the "anole" and lifts up his feeties and tail because its too hot.
I stand by my test. Put Mr worm in a bowl with a wee bit of water, talking just enough for surface tension or half a body thickness, see how long it lasts "unchewed".
Uh mulch= chopped up mulberry leaves. Its not real mulch.
Hmm. i wonder if you could just use normal (maple?) leaves with chow on them vs chow on a paper towel?
Good luck, they are picky bastards. They will not eat leaves that were frozen months ago. they wont even eat the leaves from the fallen branches from a storm that are only a few days old. Id say after about 48 hours them leaves are no good.
I just happen to have a bush outside of work.
Nope. the tub gets cleaned once per batch. So ill have weeks worth of "leaf litter" might be 6" thick at the bottom before the worms start cocooning. leaves go in, worms come out. Once you start "cleaning" etc is when they start catching colds and dying off.
I have only used leaves.
I get a tub with an open top
i mulch the leaves using a cheap food processor
i place hatched worms on mulch
i do this once a day till worms are in their final instar and turn white
after that its just a handful of leaves per day
Once they are good eating size i limit...
" i need to open his mouth and check for mouth rot" Not going to be a problem....
When i took the frilly to the vet we had to borrow a snake from the next bay over to get him to frill for the doc.
Yup another urban wise tail.
Find out for yourself. Get some supers. fill a bowl with a wee bit of water,not even covering them just enough for surface tension, they all ded real soon.
The only thing that i know of that can come out the other end and start wiggling, is BSFL. And everyone...
For home work. "when can i put the chameleon into its new cage i painted". There was several threads on how long the outgassing takes based on the paint used. Unfortunately outdoor paint is the best and most robust, but also has the highest amount of outgassing. For all i know the indoor...
Meh ohio proud. Mine all do fine in the winter with the 90 days of sub 30% humidity and reptbreeze/free range. I only get issues if i run a humidifier then i start getting URI etc. Not sure if its just mold etc growing in the room, or the humidifier cleaning growing pink slime...
Beginner:
Never taken a reptile to the vet
Never administered medicine to a reptile
Only had reptiles housed in "fish tanks" and not open air or semi open air "cages"
Can a cham be fine with a beginner? SURE. We have basic husbandry down to a science after 30 years of practice. Its almost...
i severely cut them back once they start crowding out the basking spot. Then i just throw all the cuttings in a spare pot to make a new one.
Im not a good trimmer so my photos tend to get striggy after a few years :P
I tend to put the feeder as low in the cage as possible. Also the feeder is see threw, so they may try to eat the bugs threw the plastic and give up.
But yea at that age she should be a good eater. now at 7-9 months you want to start limiting food so you dont ge early eggs.