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I'm Canadian, so I am culturally obligated to start this with an apology: I'm sorry for using this forum as a place to rant. I'm very frustrated today, you get the brunt of it. I live in Canada, like I said, and the particular area I live in is basically the blackmarket capital. Additionally...

Veiled chameleons are by no meals social animals, and the possibility of injury or illness due to stress to both chams is very real. Even if nothing bad has happened so far, that doesn't mean it won't happen five minutes from now, or an hour from now, or tomorrow. Please, give your beloved...

I'm a bit obsessed with bizarre animal behavours and anatomy, and you can't really get more bizarre than a chameleon. Basically everything about them is bizarre. Also, I really enjoy having things to fuss over. I do a fair bit of gardening, and I always do best with delicate hybrid tea roses...

While I agree that pairing food with the handler is a great idea, I don't know if immediately moving a shy cham outside is a great idea. The biggest reward in this cham's life right now is likely (and sadly) the absence of the owner. Having a chameleon that is not used to human handling on your...

I quite agree. I've trained rattlesnakes to shift from one enclosure to another through an access tunnel on cue, for keeper-safe cage cleaning. I've trained voluntary eye drops with tortoises, even voluntary intracoelomic injections with one chronically ill tegu. One green anaconda I worked with...

For my stick bugs and crickets I use Petri dishes filled with marbles, then fill with water. It's easy to clean, prevents drowning, and if I get a new shipment of crickets in (mostly I breed my own) they drink and drink and drink. Often I have to refill it several times a day for the first few...

jajeanpierre, I don't think that could have been said better by anyone. That was poetry. I'm so sorry that this was your first experience with chameleon keeping, acdcchic03. I hope you continue to read and learn, and if and when you feel ready, look into a hearty, healthy captive bred chameleon...

I worked in exotic vet clinics for a decade before my current job. Medical mistakes are rare, but they do occur, and I can tell you that everyone feels truly, honestly awful when it does. In one of the two clinics I worked at, a new vet student made a mistake which unfortunately resulted in the...

I also forgot to add; if you can pupate silkworms successfully, I have never had a cham refuse a silkworm moth unless they are direly ill. Pupating phoenix worms to their adult form can also be an alternative feeder: mine go nuts for fluttering adult black soldier flies, and they are dead easy...

Feeding superworms exclusively is not a great plan, in my opinion- they are pretty fatty and in my experience are likely to lead to obesity if fed in exclusion to everything else. If your cham is a healthy adult (i.e., over 8 months of age) and at a good weight with no issues, I might go a bit...

More likely a Cordylus species, I'd think, since Smaug giganteus is more commonly known as a Sungazer or Giant Girdled Lizard. Either way, S. giganteus are basically not available anymore for the casual herplover, unless you are possibly a zoo. I don't believe they were terribly successful in...

Do you have a picture of her face and casque? Sometimes MBD can cause poorly formed head ornamentation as well as bowed and/or fractured limbs. I hope the vet visit goes well.

Holy smokes, is he every blue! Gorgeous boy.

Hello again everyone! While I've been busy dealing with some family things I haven't had the time to be on here much- mostly lurking here and there for the past two months or so. But I just had to share Vladislav's first birthday with everyone! We had a pretty bad scare with him back in early...

Happy birthday Cooper, you handsome devil!

It's a little late, but here are the post-shed shower time photos! He's getting so very pretty :) I just wish I was a better photographer lol they're always blurrry Jan 2016 by MissLissa posted Jan 16, 2016 at 1:37 PM Jan 2016 by MissLissa posted Jan 16, 2016 at 1:37 PM

Shower time!

Shower time!