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I don't have salamanders nor do I know much about how to keep one but the habitats of both are a little, eh :/ I bet the Jackson's would LOVE more plants and I suppose the salamander would like a bigger cage. But because they are together they both get a little less than they deserve/would like...

Very handsome! Congrats on the new guy!

Sounds good to me!

I think that for a young guy in a smallish cage your warmest spot could be about 85F, where as the bottom of the cage should be room temperature, so about 70-75F. That way he gets a nice gradient from top to bottom. I usually put my basking lights in one corner of the cage so there's a gradient...

Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous!

Aww I like Oliver lol But I think McGonagal is kinda cool.

Meller's don't have a significant amount of variation, their patterns and colors are all pretty similar from one individual to another. One might be darker green and another more limeish but they are fairly similar. However I like that about them, since they aren't sexually dymorphic both...

Your male appears to be Ambanja (or at least largely Ambanja) but your female is impossible to tell for sure, as females for the most part look very similar between all the locales, so guessing what she might be is just a guess. Did the breeder/vendor not provide any background information on...

Congrats! He's beautiful!

I have a few of the same species (although not all, because some are illegal in Florida) and mine all love the nymphs. I have stopped offering adult fuscas because they emit a bitter smell (which I assume is a taste as well) and the chameleons end up chewing them up and spitting them out. So I...

A biologist I worked for told me that he had crickets from multiple major suppliers tested for coccidia and that all of them came back positive, and usually positive for other things as well. So parasites are in almost everything we feed them, whether they are wild caught vertebrates or captive...

A lot of us melleri keepers are thinking that vertebrates may play a bigger role in their health than previously thought, but we advocate feeding vertebrates like lizards or small birds. Pinkies are a poor vertebrate food choice all around, in our combined opinion. Mine are outside and I let...

No, I don't think it's unethical as long as genetically and physically he is able to. I understand that if you had a terribly malformed chameleon suffering from metabolic bone disease, who could potentially hurt himself if he tried mating and fell and cracked a bone, that you would not want to...

Remember that the screen cuts the UVB by a decent chunk, so even the 10.0 gets softened by screen. I just think that the 5.0 once it's cut by the screen I feel that you get very little time of decent UVB production before it drops too low. Over uncovered baby bins I think they are great but...

No, not too late. Stop reaching in to grab him, and instead leave him alone except to feed/mist. Keep working on hand-feeding consistently as this will condition him to see your hands (and your presence) as a positive thing, since you bring food. And if you need to get him out use something...

I like other tree branches because they have a variety of widths from one end to the next, so you give chameleon feet a little variety. Bamboo tends to be all the same, from end to end. Unless you can find a multi-pack with some thinner and some thicker?

Happy birthday Carol! Have some fun tonight, you crazy kid you!

I injected the dose directly into insects. I told the vet I would be doing this and she gave me several syringes and every day I would grab a large cricket or a roach nymph with tweezers, inject the panacur slowly into the abdomen, and then feed it off immediately. I always do it with the first...

those blue bulbs don't produce any UVB anyway, so if you are using them as heat and UVB then don't buy another one lol Like stated above, you can use a normal house-hold incandescent or halogen bulb for heat and while light AND a UVB bulb like a linear Reptisun 10.0 or an Arcadia 6%, as examples.

I get all my branches from outside as well! Why pay more for branches when you can find totally non-toxic, safe branches nearly anywhere? And mine have been going strong for like 2-3 years now, even under sunshine and misting.