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“Greater variability in habitat constitutes greater potential for precise regulation of preferred temperatures. More opportunity for thermoregulation contributes to the increased fitness of organisms in a complex habitat“ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.1141

Here’s a link to Biology of the Reptilia started and overseen by a scientist named Carl Gans. It covers four decades, 22 volumes, and 13,800 pages of science on reptiles https://carlgans.org/biology-reptilia-online/ It might take a while to get through 😂

I’m heading down the renal disease rabbit hole. We’ll see what I find

Thank you

Just me doing some research, but reptiles metabolize ammonia to uric acid through the Inosine pathway (not the urea cycle like mammals) It’s interesting that inosine affects this virus in a positive fashion. I suspect it’s due to renal dysfunction. Bad kidneys = better environment for Ranavirus...

Here’s a couple of articles that discuss these issues https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4810049/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5575572/

I ordered this today. I’m excited to read a review of the research on welfare of captive reptiles. The link below gives a review of its contents https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10936276/

Nope. Didn’t make it through a minute

I did find an English version of the abstract I’ll see if I can access the full text through my work website next week I’ve always been suspicious that environmental underhydration underlies the renal disorders in chams I’m also curious what infectious diseases account for their leading mortality

Is there an English translation? I’d love to read the article

I’m so sorry. He was the reason so many other chams have been guided to healthy lives. I hope you are able to take some solace in that my friend. RIP Beman

I like the ultratherm heat pads. And I think any heat source you use for animals should have thermostat on it to avoid overheating

Happy birthday!

Looks that way unfortunately

One of our members will be on a podcast on Facebook at 10 CST talking about parson’s and their care. Should be worth checking out if you’re available The link is posted on Primo Chameleons on Facebook if you’re interested

If you want to change the misting times for this unit to be more frequent, try using a timer to turn the power on and off Set the interval between misting to as long as it can be set. Next set your desired misting time to what you want, and turn its power switch on. Then set a timer (I use a...

Happy Monday on Thursday @Beman Just lurking around, but wanted to say hi 🙂

I have one of these on a Gargoyle gecko enclosure. You can put this on an external timer. If you wanted 3 minutes of mist twice per day you’d need to set the unit for one minute misting then set your external timer on for one minute, off one minute, back on, etc until 3 one minute misting...

Congratulations!! That’s awesome news

Sounds like you need to get involved in the Manitoba 4-H program to help their husbandry recommendations