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Hopefully your research included the pygmy caresheet posted under this forum's Resources tab. Probably about the best husbandry info available for these little guys. IMHO if I was keeping my first ones I'd be conservative...and provide more space per individual rather than less. At least have...

So much depends on how well YOU know your particular chams, how well YOU understand cham behaviors, and also how quickly YOU can detect any signs of stress and failure to thrive. It would be downright irresponsible for a less experienced cham keeper to attempt this. But it never fails...people...

Once in a while an exception crops up between two species but DO NOT count on it!!! I kept a wc male T. deremensis and a wc male B. fischeri in a huge divided cage once. I would have free ranged them but needed the cage to provide the higher humidity the room never would. Started noticing the...

I doubt this is anatomically possible OP. Water isn't going to just sit there. It would either go down the esophagus and be no problem or down the trachea into the lungs. He'd be in serious distress if that were the case.

How many pygmies would live in this? IMHO it isn't large enough for more than 1 and that is pushing it. The shape of the space is a lot of the problem...much of it isn't really "available" for perching or moving around in response to temperature, humidity, misting, or hunting food. A...

Species that have a reputation for being somewhat communal still need to be housed in a large enough space. You can't cram 4 pygmy chams in a tiny aquarium. You could put the same 4 in a very large densely planted terrarium that allows each animal to retreat from the others, get enough food...

Sorry you lost him! Actually Charlie was getting up toward being an oldster. If you didn't have any information on his prior care there may have been something missing nutritionally...you might have inherited a subtle problem. There was probably something going on that just caught up with him...

There probably isn't a one-size-fits-all answer for this. There are a lot of diverse species and the sorts of habitats they inhabit vary too. Some species probably make more seasonal movements than others because the climate, habitat conditions, and prey availability force them to. Their...

The main point of a dripper is that it provides a moving water source for a longer period of time than a short hand spraying might. However, if you are very diligent with hand spraying multiple times a day, have lots of vegetation that catches and holds water droplets for a longer time (so the...

More importantly you need to figure out why he's spending so much time with his eyes shut. In most cases its not an eye problem at all...closing eyes is a symptom of something else. Solve THAT problem and the eye problem goes away too. At the top of this forum there's a post with a questionnaire...

Congratulations!!! Nothing cuter than baby jax!

Totally fine. I usually tried to teach my chams to take water from a hand held syringe. Most, but not all of them did. It wasn't that difficult and I was able to mix a med into the syringe water once in a while if necessary. I'd spray down the cage foliage as usual. Most of the time the cham...

How big is this globe?

Just about 100% certain this is a thermal burn. Classic location for one. The actual temperature directly under the basking light at the perch she sits on is too high. You will need to adjust your temps either by lowering the basking perches or raising the lamp higher off the top of the cage...

You may not be seeing him drink if his cage is full of foliage and lots of droplets available much of the time. That's how it should be. What is the range in humidity in his cage during the day/night? If it is correct he may not be drinking because he's hydrated enough. Some chams drink in...

Well, this is the justification for keeping BOTH species. The cham is the main herp desired...the beardie is the antidote to the cham. Substituting a dog for the beardie works too.

The true "cost" ends up being what you need to do to make it functional for a creature it wasn't designed to house. A, $80 bird cage that is larger than an $80 reptile enclosure could be a relatively good buy, but don't forget that you will need to modify it; may need to make a screen cover to...

They were trying to imply that the cham in the quote is lying limp and unresponsive on the cage bottom...as in almost dead.

Get RID of the black light. They don't "bask" at night. They also need darkness and a temperature drop at night. Where did you get your husbandry information? If someone recommended the black light they have no clue how to care for a chameleon. I'd suggest reading the husbandry articles located...

I wouldn't. There's enough inbreeding/less than perfectly planned for compromised babies in the veiled population as it is.