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I guess I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I definitely prefer glass/hybrid over screen. I think it’s difficult, regardless of where you live, to maintain day/night humidity and temperature cycles in screen enclosures. Humidity of 85-100% at night just isn’t happening unless your outdoor...

Happy new year!

I think the concept of uVB being focused into the basking light is important The conversion of previtamin D to Vitamin d in the skin is a temperature dependent process. And the warmer it is the faster the reaction takes place, so this is definitely an important concept that can have direct...

Here’s some possible reasoning for the behavior and some evidence that vitamin D levels affect the behavior Essentially UV exposure helps form beta-endorphins (naturally derived opioid substances) It makes you “feel good”. And there’s some suggestion that there is a feedback loop on beta...

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How much you need to mist will depend some on your cage type and your ambient humidity levels As far as setting your mister up, I would get a digital timer for it rather than using the timer on the unit. You can set your mister duration, turn the unit on, and then connect to a digital timer...

I don’t entirely disagree that they’re all better off in the wild. Here’s a forward to an interesting round table discussion about Vitamin A written by Ardith Abate in 2003. She was definitely in favor of Chams remaining wild. A lot of food for thought “I sincerely hope that the ARAV finds a...

I got my calendar and book this week. Thanks @Brad ! And thank you all for your beautiful pictures

I also put all heat sources on an automatic dimming thermostat

Is your mister the reptirain or the monsoon? You can regulate the times by putting it on a timer. Set your duration and turn the unit on. Then just connect it to a timer that will come on for a minute or two whenever you want to mist, then turn the unit back off. It should go off at your...

https://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/anticanres/36/3/1345.full.pdf

If you publish a book, I would like to buy one

So sorry for your loss of Toby

Looking at the pictures, it looks like his tongue is fully extending. Does that seem right to you? What’s your gutloading like, what insects are feeding? There’s some potential that there’s a nutritional deficiency of some kind. I would make sure you’re using nutritious and varied foods for...

Window seal on the front door may help too. You might try moving the gauges around to where your Cham tends to hang out in the day and night. There may be humidity pockets they’re using that you aren’t measuring (although 4 monitors seems like plenty)

I have definitely gone to the dark side 😉

I found it. It's in Petr's paper on fogging. He mentions never above 20 C, and discusses this in relation to RI and possibly inhibiting bacterial growth at lower temps https://www.archaius.eu/archaius-1-4-2020/

If you think about nutritional content of insects in general, there’s very few that do not have an inverse calcium to phosphorus ratio, but they’re still able to maintain a high ca : p ratio within they’re body. They’re not getting any calcium powder in the wild This is accomplished by properly...