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Heads up chammers: Bill Strand will be interviewing Michael Nash live on YouTube tomorrow morning at 8 AM PST (so like 10-noon for the civilized). They’ll discuss raising hatchling chameleons in bioactive enclosures.

I shall tag @Dridrop12 . I have a feeling he’ll have a principled distinction here.

I agree with @JacksJill here. W/c will almost certainly be gravid, or else have retained sperm. And if a CB female even sniffed a male, I’d err on the side of gravid too. Best advice: be ready for babies! And…”raise ‘em separate and get ‘em cold.”

Hmm…Sounds like a mechanical means of slowing the movement of digesta through the GI tract. Fascinating! I shall have to bone up on my chameleon digestion! Thanks, K !

That seems reasonable. Without stretching the “deliberacy of nature” fallacy too far, I think you’re right about the de facto status of gut flora. Just to clarify: Do you think the gut flora of chameleons does some heavy digestive lifting, or not?

I’m just thinking about organisms that rely heavily on gut flora and/or fermentation for digestion. Most seem to have mechanisms for keeping food in the gut longer.

Agreed. The question is whether nature meant for gut flora to do important digestive work in chameleons, given that it imbued the latter with a relatively short gi tract.

One safe and proven method here is to use a multivitamin such as “repashy calcium plus LOD” or “arcadia revitalize” once per month, in combination with an insect feeding regiment that incorporates a ton of different carotenoids. The latter is in hopes that chameleons can in fact cleave some or...

My mom says so too.

Interesting! I wonder if the relative shortness of the chameleon digestive tract would make it difficult to foster a sufficiently large population of commensal gut flora.

Unfortunately, vitamin A is still a mystery. It’s not even clear how wild chameleons get their retinol. I know of no study that even hazards a guess as to the particular retinol requirements for a given species. I’ll link you a blog below. It’s long, verbose and clearly written by some in love...

I’m sorry to hear that.

You’re welcome

What are you looking for, exactly?

snails are great. You can order a few dozen adult helix aspersa, breed them, and feed off the babies. Grasshoppers are promising as they actually figure in the wild diet. Anything that flies is great: blue bottles, bsf, bees. Green things tend to elicit an enthusiastic response. Green bananas...

And your temps are fairly mild right now?

Popping or wheezing sounds? Does he just do it when he’s in the sun?

You know how lazy I am 😂

A&R bugs on FB.

You can certainly go to once a day now. And by the year mark, he should be on every other day. My adult gets 3-4 medium sized feeders 3 times a week m