I do think I can see a bit more of a thickness there than a female would have. I was unsure with my chameleon at first as well, but with a little more age you will see the male characteristics more. Some babies have color that jumps out at 4 months with huge bulges to go along with it, but I...
I would have said female looking at the tail, but the side scales with the deep red color and the dorsal area with green/yellow coloring leads me to believe this is a male.
I caught a mantis outside my door the other day, and I was going to raise him to feed to my chameleon. But he was so pretty and so awesome that I had to let him go, I felt so bad for keeping him locked up. I usually hate bugs.
My chameleon did not start to get friendly until around 5 or 6 months of age. I had started hand feeding a month or so beforehand, so I started luring him out onto my arm with prey. It worked like a charm.
Pantherkid bought a timer for his chameleon's lights that night as soon as we let him know he needed one, but as he was leaving the very next morning and I contacted him late at night, there was no way for him to drop off or me to pick up his little guy before he left. If I thought the...
Props for that construction, best baby cage I've seen. Did you buy the metal frames and add screen into them yourself or did the pieces come with screen in them? Say someone couldn't find the smaller interior screen pieces, do you think pvc foam board (of the variety that comes in screen cage...
I hear you, my roommate still does not believe that he should do his own research regarding animals he's interested in. Based on my experience with animals in general, I do believe that reputable private breeders are the way to go, perhaps even for pets as simple as rats and hamsters!
A few members and I were talking about this the other day, and it was suggested that because veiled chameleons only cost $35 to $60 dollars and because they're highly available at pet stores, many people purchase them with only "pet store" instructions on how to take care of them, and opt not to...
A knowledgeable member of the forum did suggest in the chat that inbreeding doesn't start to affect reptiles for many generations, so perhaps they just rely on chance matings to offer new genetic material in the wild. Or perhaps inbreeding is just not a big deal for animals in the wild...
It's not fantasy at all to build nice furniture grade cages that can hold all supplies and appliances, we see many on here that are done very well. What you can do is either find a furniture cabinet that you can use as a base and build the screen cage on top of it, or build the whole structure...