Don’t forget the drainage layer is very important too so your soil doesn’t become over saturated that can easily kill your clean up crew and make it a bacteria farm
For bioactive I’ve mixed my own because it’s always cheapest I mix zilla jungle mix with some cococoir, sphagnum, some mulch and leaf litter and washed organic play sand as well as charcoal and it lasts me for many enclosures and drains pretty well use it for all my tropical animals I’ve also...
My lateralis males both have before when I was trying to move him to a new cage before latching on to my finger tokay style and the other before jumping off the branch
Now I will admit this is a bit small for what I’d recommended but it seems to do fine for my Jackson’s it is 36 tall by 22 wide by 18 deep I see a lot of people keep xanth on in 18 18 36 and my t.j.j is smaller than a male xanth and doesn’t seem to have an issue with this I moved him from a...
No luck honestly I doubt she has much less no eggs failed breeding and now she’s closing her eyes her fecales came back negative so my best guess is either internal damage or the fact is far her short lifespan is just naturally coming to an end looks like I’m going to have to wait quite a while...
Let’s hope things go well I made a bucket outside of her cage with what Frank Payne recommended she is wild caught and I have reason to believe she may be carrying eggs with her floor crawling in multiple occasions and she’s recently stopped eating as much and just looks plump in general every...
I’m honestly not sure I just got them from lowes they were super cheap and since the chameleons are tiny they can climb on them no problem while being bushy I also have grass seedlings and pea seeds in there to hopefully grow and provide mimic more of a forest floor and the peas can let the...
I don’t build mine I always buy my enclosures tamura design sells incredible pvc enclosures and for my smaller species I use leap habitats. You could also just use heat shrink film to cover a screen enclosure that’s what I did until I was able to get solid side cages or dragonstrand
Ahh yes i experienced the male doing that I didn’t know they vibrated but the male played dead on a branch for 20 minutes before starting to move they blend in INCREDIBLY well more so than my phants
Brookesia thieli!!!!!! They are wild caught but they are from chameleon cans so I feel confident in their health there are plenty of fruit flies and bean Beatles in there as well as springtails in the soil and dwarf white isopods so I’m confident in the amount of food I also am focused on...
Got a wild caught female today and she is MASSIVE my male I’m going to pair her up with is much smaller he is sexually mature but wow just wow I felt her belly cuz I thought maybe she’s just gravid with how large she is but nothing for now privacy before treating and pairing
I’ve never kept a panther but I feel like it’d just be easier to raise the room temps as a whole or possibly a ceramic heat emitter set on a thermostat to regulate its temp
I got him from a breeder here but she isn’t producing them anymore I don’t think I believe west coast chameleon brothers will have some captive born ones soon and I may try my hand eventually at them
New large sized leap enclosure made fully bioactive some plants need to grow in a little but I added so much from burrowing Kenyan roaches, isopods, springtails and a network of branches in the small ferns which will grow quite large
I’ve never had an issue with my lats because it’s a lower dosage of vitamin a and d3 and panthers are given the one with leopard gecko every feeding without issue now that doesn’t mean it’s the best but I am going to switch to Arcadia earth pro a every feeding but add in repashy calcium plus lod...