Yea in my case it pays for its self in a year or so if you are running multiple cages. If you are just running one bulb, well $250 can buy a lot of bulbs :p
In my case i was even recycling the 12%'s from the beardy cages to the cham cages after they went down by half, then its like having a...
I can get several years out of the arcadia and Zoomed T5 HO's before they go down by half power and need to be exchanged. At the 24 month mark ive had at least 2/3 new output on 5 bulbs.
So its not detrimental to be a little off. They only need a few hours of direct sunlight per week, which...
Ive had good luck with this style.
You just fill it with "stuff" and a drop of dish soap. The stuff can be a piece of fruit in water, or a bit of vinegar, or even a bit of wine.
I have not raise a cham egg. But i got split reptile eggs due to fert eggs rotting. The egg would die, and burst from the outgassing/swelling. Slugs on the other hand never swelled/burst/split, they just rotted and collapsed.
If that is a fruit fly larva, then you live next to a nuke plant.
Guessing its just blue bottle or house fly. It seems you maybe running a bit wet in the tank.
But honestly you are going to end up with cleaner crew one way or the other :P
No im going to be out of the chameleon business for a while. I currently have a free ranging tegu, and i dont want to have a cham cooped up in a reptibreeze XL, that could be easily knocked over (they can jump a good 2ft up) or dug into by the tegu.
Backwaters is pretty bad. Its just a group of suppliers, no main campus or warehouse. They send out a request "someone bought and oust, ship it to this address". I ended up with one that looked like it had not eating in a few months since capture, and died a few days later. I got mine from...
Nope. Ive been larping on the forums since 2018 when Harry the Oust kicked the bucket. I occasionally look for Ousts for sale, but it seems i got the last of cheap ones around 2011.
chameleons dont fall
chameleons dont miss
If they are doing this, something is wrong. On the bright side chameleons are designed to fall onto the forest floor from unlimited heights. Its a defense mechanism, drop and run. So as long as there are not rocks or flowerpots etc with hard edges...
I found light timers are a must. Its like the first thing i had to change. The 2nd thing i had the change was sitters dont like to catch the food, so like others listed, you need to have all the food premeasured in easy to use cups with like some shredded carrot or something. I made the...
My solution that worked for me:
Live in filth, never clean after infestation
Remove all supers from bin using a siv.
Swap all media to bran. Grain mites can only live in grains, not bran.
Place supers back in bin.
Any moist food has to be swapped out daily.
It only takes two-three weeks to...