Search results

Hieka, the mental picture I get with that is great! :D Whap! Upside the head.....:p

blood4eva, do you mean pygmys in general, or superciliaris? I have R. brevicaudata and they're my first chams. For me, they're actually easier than keeping a veiled or panther, b/c of room, and they can live in a terrarium, which I already had experience with. THEY (brevs) are not too...

There are lots of sites with pics and explanations on building cage fixtures. I have mostly used expanding foam, then covered it with peat moss, etc. Some folks make a scaffold out of hardware cloth then cover it with concrete or grout. Here are a couple of links I have referred to...

What do you use to clean the glass? Vinegar? So far I've just scraped it with an aquarium glass scraping blade, and rinsed it. I try to use r/o water, to minimize mineral buildup, but it's there anyway.

What about the brev tanks? Roo, (or anyone), how often do you clean the brev tanks? I often can't find the poop to take it out...don't know if that means the springtails get to it before I do, or what. I try to make sure there's no mold on anything, but other than that, and scraping the water...

She may want to be picked up, but probably just wants out, and she knows you have to pick her up for her to get out. I'd encourage it, though!

You definitely want to put them on a cookie sheet in the oven, set about 250F for about 20 minutes. Kill the fungus and mold that's probably on them, any hitchhiking bugs. Rinse them off before baking, just to remove surface dirt (I think it might help keep them from getting too crispy while...

Interesting idea, that they have to chew to break the skin. My brevs actually won't look at phoenix worms; guess they're not fast enough for them. Stripe won't even look at silkies! Picky boy! But the gecko LOVES phoenix worms, and the frogs do too; but I know the frogs don't chew anything...

Dead leaves are what they prefer, anyway (well, OK, I didn't ask them...). In the forest, most of the leaves on the ground are dead, and that's where the sowbugs and other critters the brevs would eat are hiding.

Brandy, sorry I didn't remember those were your pics. It cracks me up! I don't know that I want my brevs to do that, though; I think I'd have a heart attack...:eek:

Hieka, that's great! :D I like the pics you posted a while back of a brev playing dead...then peeking to see if you'd gone away....:p

blood that's an old wive's tale about how to catch a bird...I always wondered why it would work, and how you'd get close enough to sprinkle the salt! I haven't thought about that in years, Dave...that's great! :p

Roo, Drew and I think that is the coolest! Awesome setup! On our brevs' tank, we used sphagnum and bark chips to fill in cracks, too. He is really taken with those pygmys...wants some! (Of course, he wants many, many animals...) I put a shelf fungus in my brev tank, but no bark shelves. I...

Niki, did your Dad bring over a nebulizer? Like you use if you have asthma? That's cool, but be sure there's no medicine left in the chamber. I wouldn't have thought of using one...great idea! :D A cool mist humidifier would probably run longer; if it is a nebulizer, I've never gotten it...

Hieka, are the flies from spiderpharm too big for a brev? I would guess most regular flies would be, but I'd love to have more variety. Guess I could do fruit flies...Drew watched a brev zap a terrarium gnat the other day...:D I'm also sure I'd be sooo popular with my husband if I brought...

Jordan, that pic is freaky! I knew bullfrogs would eat small birds, but not chams... I have a hard time finding stuff small enough for my brevs, other than crix. I have some silkies coming in the next couple of days, but the brevs haven't looked twice at the phoenix worms (luckily the frog...

My house is soooo dry, I see my chams drink every time I mist them. I have those misters, Dave, but I feel like the droplets are too big for my brevs. I did use a Misty Mate, but it finally quit working...guess they're not designed for constant use! If I do a humidifier, will that keep the...

It's hard to mix species in a tank, even as big as yours is. The pygmies do come down on the ground some, to rustle around in the substrate, so the lizards would undoubtably get them. Besides, anoles are quite the climbers, too. I can't think of anything else you could keep with the lizards...

Does anyone feed flour moths (pantry moths) to their chams? The other day I took out a bag of cornmeal, inside a ziploc, and there were moths in it, so I threw it out. Later I thought, they're pretty small...maybe...?

Mike, what would you use that for? I put oatmeal in the bottom of my cricket container. I try to clean out dead crickets every so often, and oatmeal is pretty cheap, so if I scoop some out with the dead guys it's no biggie. I replace all of it when I get a new batch of crickets. It's...