the white stuff is the urate composed of uric acid and urea. if it is white, your specimen should not be having issues with dehydration. yellow shows slight dehydration and orange shows severe dehydration. if the urates are white with an orange or yellow end its usually due to a high protein...
i dont think i could go 6 years without some kind of animal:eek:right now im working on a colony of fish but i have been itching to get back into reptiles!
hey whats up?:D yeah i was thinking about trying to bring carpets into the country. Very beautiful creatures. same with pygmies. would have to import. i really need to get a good contact for imports. with fish and reptiles
Its been a very long time since ive done anything chameleon related due to me being busy... since the upsetting loss of my veiled chameleon, i have realised how much i loved keeping chameleons...
Anyways, aside from my rambling i just wanted to say hello again and id love some ideas for my next...
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - male veiled chameleon. passed away at almost 20months of age if the birth date of the animal was correct.
Handling - only a couple of times in his lifetime.
Feeding - locusts supplemented with silkworms waxworms and morios. i used LoD but then switched up to a 3...
an eye defect that i couldnt figure out. they would go glassy and even glaze over. i thought it was an eye infection and treated him but his reflexes slowed and he didnt react to environmental ttiggers which gave me the idea that it is a genetic brain defect. he was always kinda "slow" anyway...
i dont want to get an animal shipped. i have a couple of places which i can get first gen cb babies at from different parents so there is genetic variation. im gonna have to do tons of research:)
i lost my veiled to a genetic issue i couldnt do anything about. as far as i know my husbandry was perfect.i just want something more exotic. i have loads of time on my hands anyway so i am very attentive to my animals needs. i can preform certain vet practices like fecal tests and parasite med...
i might have to go with a couple of jacksons for my future reptile room. get a small population going in the uk. there are barely any around out here. is breeding them difficult?
it can be a protazoa infection due to it being wc. cysts usually sit in the intestinal lining until they feel like the host is healthy enough to sustain them. this can be a newly starting case of giardia. if you have a microscope available to you at home or in a school lab i suggest you use it...
i have recently lost my veiled chameleon Reggie and was told by a fellow member to the chameleon hobby earlier than i planned as i am so enthusiastic about it. i just wanted to know what species i could get into that are slightly more challenging. thank you for your contributions,
curly.
check out brians videos on snake bytes tv// animal bytes tv. hes the owner of bhb reptiles and he gives very good info on breeding and hatching leopard geckos. also if you incubate eggs at higher temps you get males if you incubate at lower temps you gwt females