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Nice shots. What lens, what cam?

I hear you Joe, but I'll leave the experimental husbandry up to those with far bigger cham collections, far more practical experience than me, and better access to experienced veterinary help... Here are the sites I was referring to about plant: - Cornell University: Poisonous Plants...

Is this considered the norm when you buy crickets in the UK? Because if I were getting bugs (especially nasty ones) with my crickets, I'd consider changing my supplier. I never get anything but crickets from my supplier...

Correct Brad. Lucky Bamboo is not bamboo at all, it is Dracaena as mentioned above. I kept some in my male Veiled's cage, under the impression that it was bamboo, and supposedly safe. When I read that it might be harmful, I removed it, but that wasn't before my cham had been munching on it...

And that's probably why most chameleons chose to live in more hospitable places like Madagascar in the first place! ;)

When I lived in the UK during the summer two years ago, the sun was going down at about 21h30, and rising just after 04h00 in the morning. Makes for great summer evenings, but I've been there in the winter too when the sun is down by four o' clock in the afternoon :(

See Chris - that's one of those little jewels I was talking about: fascinating post. Thanks for sharing.

I'm afraid I can't be of much help with your urate problem, other than that my personal opinion is that it probably isn't a direct problem with the gutload since any contaminated/problematic ingredient passed through the insect's gut would likely cause full diarrhea, wouldn't it? (runny feces as...

That might indeed be a problem. In most of the places where chams come from (Madagascar, Africa, Yemen) they only experience a maximum of about 13 hours of light a day. That's why most keepers try to stick to a 12 hour light cycle. Bright sunlight streaming through the window at 'night' would...

The other thing about Pygmy chams for beginners is that because of their size and level of activity, it's harder to detect when anything is going wrong with them. A Veiled cham is a far better cham for a beginner to learn from. And trust me, there is a LOT to learn. As Brad mentioned, try to...

Bjorn, it would be better to house them all individually... that would be part of the point of keeping them in quarantine. Besides, by the time they reach sub-adult, it's not recommended to keep them together anyway (regardless of what sex they are). As for cage size, you could probably get...

I would think not. Simply put, crickets don't really eat the SAME things as cockroaches, they eat ANYTHING! That's the biggest problem I think you'd face if you kept them together: your crickets would probably end up snacking on your roaches. What would you do when the roaches start producing...

That was a great tip on the eyewash Jim. Thanks for the detailed instructions. So are you saying that the 'eye-bulging' action that is normally written off as normal cleaning behaviour for the cham, is actually a response by them due to the irritation of water getting into their eyes? That in...

If that many worms came out, it might have put a lot of stress on his system. Often, the body can cope with the living parasites, but as soon as the parasites die the body treats them as foreign bodies that it needs to get rid of - like a toxin. This is what Dr. Dmitry Vassiliev has to say...

I tried it with some superworms too. But pay attention to the line in the instructions that states: "Care must be taken not to overdo the oil application, as it apparently inhibits the breathing mechanism of the worms." I was a bit over-zealous with the oil on my first application, and...

Once they're old enough (and yours certainly is), there is no such thing as too big! The more space the better (within reason of course: if you simply let them roam around your house they wouldn't get enough UV exposure, heat or nutrition...). So whilst she doesn't need a cage that large, and...

Shedding monthly in a sub-adult cham is not unusual, but what bothers me is when you say "As soon as he finishes one cycle he's onto the next one. Usually his skin looks like it's in a state of shedding and never clear." A healthy young chameleon usually sheds completely in 1-2 days. Older...

Hey Tom. Nice pic. Was that one of yours?

True, true. It was a toss-up between that and "Pollen is not the supplement it is cracked up to bee." Either way, I realise it's going to take a lot more work to have them rolling in the aisles... ;)

I hear you Eric. From the sites I've found that purport to have scientific data on the nutrional value of bee pollen for humans (most of them touting Bee Pollen as miracle food), the nutrients they mention can be obtained just as effectively from far cheaper ingredients. For example, it's...