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Well we added some new guys to the collection. Hope you enjoy! And a big thanks to Mike at FLChams for cherry picking these guys, and to Chris for baby sitting till the weather cleared.

It is always amazing how much controversy and emotion surrounds this species. What is more amazing is the amount of misinformation floating around. Geesh would I love to hatch a clutch with parson, globifer, and oshaungs all at the same time, and just for good measure a yellow lip or two in...

Yeah Will thanks for the advice there, LOL, the corruplast is fun stuff to work with. The shade cloth on the sides is the same Lowes brand I have used for most of my outdoor cages but it is a 85% block, thus the chams would have to have their eyes pressed to it to make out the shadows of their...

The green one with black spots is a deremensis juvi male. He is displaying thus the the spots. I run 4' shop lights on top of the cages they are just not on in the pics yet, I have a bunch more cages to finish before the room is finished. My chams spend 9 months of the year in natural...

Well the weather has finally turned and the chams must come in from there free range hideaways outside. I can never understand why I wait for the last minute to start getting the indoor cages ready. Here are some of the cages in so far, I have a whole bunch more to go. Luckily they will only...

Excellent does not even touch it, Mike is the best two thumbs up here.

Will, lol, I have been very lucky and got some really nice wild caught animals over the last months, they are all in need of a good shed but are coming along nicely. Next breeding season should be lots of fun, now if I can just get a good load of hoehnelii in, and of course the parsonii colony...

I will get pics of the new indoor setups up as soon as they are finished. I am in the process of rebuilding the whole setup now. I think the old pics are floating around somewhere, but my ideas have changed a bit for this year.

Few more, my little juvi johnstoni female is a bit shy but made a small appearance. Everone has another month, maybe two outside and then they all have to come in for three months, but spring will return again!

yeah the whole fischeri complex has become a real favorite of mine but the 2.3 fischeri fischeri I just got is absolutely stunning! Too bad the rest of the johnstoni would not play this morning the old man and the females are awesome too. Heck even the dwarf fischer just was not willing to...

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Well that's about a little less than half the clan the others just were not copperating today, maybe another day. If you are looking for high quality animals I cannot give higher recomendations then Mike at FLChams. Theses guys have been streaming in for a few weeks now.

And of course no post is ever complete without a few pics of the inhabitants! This is my juvenile male johnstoni. He has a juvenile mate in the other enclosures. This is jail break. Fishers are known for being escape artist and this one is no exception, turn your back for a...

The water comes off a mix valve I built from the washer hook up so can be heated, so far I have not needed to though, ambient is still close to 100 degrees here so the cooling mist pulls me down to the mid to low 80's. I designed so that I can reach the bottom. I dug out the existing bed...

Hey Will, they are fabric as well. When the watering system is on "rain" it pools on the tops of the fabric and then you get drips coming from every were just like rain, they love it!

No they usually get about 8-9 months out depending on species, I am in Oklahoma. I have an indoor system in the garage that has it's own heating and cooling system as well as a full misting system. Small cages but it gets them through the winter and on any sunny days, it is Oklahoma so the...

As long as you guys are talking about outdoor caging here is my newest creation. It is constructed of old decking from a remodel in the neighborhood so all the 2x6's were ripped in half. A dado blade was used to create lap joints and dados for strong construction. Everything was glued...

I use one every night, all my chams are eating at least 75% wild caught bugs from one of these things. Now all I have to do is figure a way to make one bigger, like the size of a 5 gal bucket.

Hempa, that opens up a whole big can of worms. They do get a good 15-20 degree temp drop at night. Take a little time and pull up some weather monitoring stations in the areas your chams are indigenous to, you might be very surprised about the "cool" montane myth.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I am real happy with him. Matthew is right it is not the camera or the equipment but the person whose hands they are in. These were all taken with one of my favorite light bodies the D200 and the 80-200 f/2.8AFS. I change it up and shoot with a D2HS and...