The first of my clutch of montium eggs began to hatch today. These are CH from a WC female imported back in Dec. I didn't think the female was even going to survive to laying when she came in. Got her back in enough shape to lay the eggs and thought for sure she was done for after that. She kept...
By now many of you have heard about the Cameroon shipment that came in legally within the last few days--the first in a long time. I was able to procure 30 quads, 20 montium, 14 cristatus, and 20 pfefferi. Some of the quads are red claws. Pretty good mix of juveniles and adults.
Some are in...
Alright, so, since John liked the pic I sent of his/my baby so much that he posted it up (thanks for that, John. :) I'm super glad to see that you're as happy with how handsome he turned out as I am. :) ), I thought I'd post a pic of my bigguy too. :P
Meet Oliver, my new T. montium who was captive hatched and raised by ataraxia. He's so cool with his little fins. He's about 9 months old now and I've had him for two weeks. He's in great shape and a good eater. This was him just unpacked looking very unsure of everything:
And now he is...
Here is my little gem from Ataraxia, captive hatched 5 month old Triocerus montium named Rhaegar (I like name themes and I love the Game of Thrones books). He arrived yesterday and so far isn't quite sure what to make of everything yet, but drank a lot. I hope he settles in nicely and one day...
I took a few pictures of a couple of my baby montiums today, so here they are ;).
This picture would have come out better, but the lens started fogging over :p.
Here are some pics of my baby montiums who hatched between 11-22 and 11-25. I tried putting them all in one place to get a picture of all of them at once, but keeping them all in the shot was like herding cats. They wouldn't stop moving around :p.
Here they are back in their home...
My baby montium shed for the first time yesterday. I caught it on the tail end and most of the shed had already fallen off, but I got these pictures of what was left.
I just thought I'd give an update on my baby montium that hatched 8-25. I can see horns just starting to form and his back and the base of his tail is becoming scalloped, so I'm sure he is a he. I weighed him today and he had the biggest one week gain in weight yet. He went from 0.94g to...
I got pics of all my chameleons today. It's the first time I've taken pictures of all of them at the same time.
Here's Trixie, my female montium
And her baby
My Pfeffer's, Pfritzi
And the male, Pepe
My Quad, Qadir, striking a pose
My other male...
My baby montium was in a good spot yesterday, so I snapped a couple of quick pics, and since everyone loves baby pics ;), here they are.
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I took Trixie out to weigh her this morning, so I thought I'd take a couple pictures while I was at it. They turned out pretty well :).
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She weighs 20.56g by the way.
I got a portable photo studio from thinkgeek.com and tried it out for the first time today with my baby T. montium. Here are the pics.
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This is a link to the portable photo studio for anyone interested...
My montium, Trixie, laid another clutch of eggs today. She laid 9 eggs. I thought montiums were supposed to have 2 or 3 clutches a year, but this is the third clutch she's laid since I got her in January. The first was at the end of February, then she laid another on 6-13, and now another one...
I got 2 female quads and a female montium a little over a month ago and the montium laid 7 eggs a week ago :D. I saw she had some dirt on her nose so I figured she must have been poking around in the bottom of her cage looking for a place to lay her eggs. The bottom of the cage is a 23" pot...
I have new pics of my young chameleons. First, here's Pfred.
And here is my little montium who surprised me and started growing horns meaning he's male and not female like I originally thought :p. I still haven't decided on a new name.
Here he is right after being misted...