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Heika, those guys look great! The not-so-tiny-when-you-got-them guys are getting downright fat! The one male that got thwapped...his face isn't in focus, but his hindquarters and tail look beautiful! :p (Seriously, his colors look like they'll be incredible....)

Ah yes, Jordan, our treasured Smoky Mountains...with the worst air of any park! So many people drive through and leave their exhaust! BTW, for some reason I thought you lived in Middle TN....I'm in Knoxville (great place for people with asthma!). Sorry for the hijack....:o

One of my brevs was doing that for a while...also sliding around on his belly, not exactly trunkal weakness, but not normal either. He had me really worried, but then he stopped and went back to normal behavior. If it had continued consistently I would have had him to the vet, but it only went...

"fatty on a branch"....LOL! No, he moved, but slowly, certainly not trucking around, but for his age, I think he does pretty well....

A few weeks ago I ordered some small silkies for my brevs...and as you could have guessed, they very quickly grew too big for the brevs to eat! The frogs and gecko enjoyed them too, but now they're too big for everything except the White's tree frog. So I took some of the silkworms to the...

Yea! I'm happy to hear that, Lele! Does the vet think his eye will heal somewhat? Will the scarring impair his vision, or does the vet offer an opinion on that? Makes me think...sometimes I catch one of the brevs rubbing his eyes/head on branches after I mist them...

pretty weird, for sure! I hadn't heard a sound from him before that, or since! Kind of like a squirrel fussing, scratchy, hissy kind of noise...hard to describe!:rolleyes:

James, welcome to the forum! there is lots of good info here. I'm not sure what you mean by the Yemen species....a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) or panther chameleon (Chamaeleo pardalis) are common "starter" chameleons, if there is such a thing. Veileds do live in Yemen.

Roo, I admire your ability to admit you're human and make mistakes...;) So far I don't THINK I've made any bad ones with the chams...but I haven't had them that long, so time will tell. I'll tell a gecko story, though...I picked up his humid hide to mist it (it has sphagnum inside), and he was...

Creampuff, I know next to nothing about Jacksons, but I remember reading somewhere that chams need a variety of diameter of climbing stuff...that's not coming out right, but in other words, some thin, some thick, some in between. I'm sure real plants provide a variety, but you might consider...

Did you ever take him to the vet? Or talk to one?

Lele--yikes! That's pretty creepy. I hope it is "just" a staphyloma, as opposed to a malignancy...although an infection (obviously a persistant one!) in his eye isn't good either. My local pet store guy got in a senegal with one eye..he was trying to get me to take it (I think he still feels...

Roo....she already passed. I'm so sorry about your baby. It sounds like she was really young when you got her; it's hard to keep tiny babies properly without lots of experience. Maybe if you decide on another chameleon, you can find a breeder that will have one 3 months old or so, and it'll...

Maybe he's about to shed?

Blue300zx2, going by your zip, you're not too far from Panama City, and there is a herp vet there. You could at least call them and see if they have any suggestions (supplemental oxygen, maybe?). People die from smoke inhalation, and I'd hate to see your cham suffer...:( I do worry what would...

Lele, yeah, corneal blisters do stick out like that, although mine are not as "round" as that....more of a shallow protrusion...No, I gave up on contacts a long time ago! I think you get ulcers from contacts...but I get the blisters when I get something like pollen (that I'm already allergic...

Lele, that is a freaky thing...almost looks like a corneal blister or something. I wonder if chams get those? I do... No wonder he keeps his eye shut, it's got to interfere with his vision something awful! I wonder if a veterinary opthomologist would have any frame of reference for something...

A sugar glider is a small mammal kind of like a flying squirrel. Tricky to keep as pets, but probably no harder than chams. Very cute, long life span.

this is a little off topic, since I haven't gotten brave enough to get roaches yet (should have seen my husband's face when he unknowingly opened a box of silkies the other day!:rolleyes: ), but.....how often does everyone change the veggies in their insect cages? Every day? Every other day...

Bugboy, I have only had my brevs a little while, but one of the males I had liked to hang out on the bottom, too, for a while. He had one corner he'd be in, and one time I realized he was watching the guppy in the 1g tank right next to his tank! I put a piece of paper on that side of the tank...