Canopy chameleon?

[JoXie411]

the person I’ve been Talking to shared this weather patterns they wrote down to understand the temp changes by season. They are hopping to start a cb project and are actually trying to help me get my hands on a female because I haven’t given up on the dream to get these guys cb chong is so magical and if cheech would have make it she also would have been one stunning cham

 

[JoXie411]

Idky I get so excited when I find chongs poop but I think that’s a sexy fecal no?

 

[janjan20]

Nice looking poop lol! I am the same way lol!

 

[kinyonga]

@JoXie411 said...."I was told to atleast get him down to 50 if I want him to have proper digestion"...how does being cold aid in digestion?

 

[JoXie411]

@JoXie411 said...."I was told to atleast get him down to 50 if I want him to have proper digestion"...how does being cold aid in digestion?

From my understanding since he’s a Montane species his basking temps are in the mid 70s he needs temp drops of atleast 20• to help digest his food. So it has nothing to do with being cold per se

 

[kinyonga]

I don't understand how the drop helps the digestion. Chameleons are cold blooded and need the heat to digest the food from all that I've read/been told/etc. Trying to understand how this would be true.

 

[JoXie411]

Im just doing what I was told to do by ppl who have had them in the past

 

[JoXie411]

http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/2007/12/temperatures-and-thermoregulation.html?

This blog talks about what the temp drop does for the digestive system

 

[Kaizen]

I don't understand how the drop helps the digestion. Chameleons are cold blooded and need the heat to digest the food from all that I've read/been told/etc. Trying to understand how this would be true.

let me preface this with a disclaimer: I ain’t no vet, biologist, expert, or whatever. Here’s my pitch: it might be the case that a particular reptile has evolved such that his “digestion” response—ie, that inside thing that triggers good digestion—is only activate by a temp swing of ~20 degerees. That being the case,a 20 degree drop might indeed be required. Again, merely a thought, not meant as data, not as weighing in. Just ticking off the possibilities. I mean, stranger things happen in the Cham world: who’d have thought that chilling 50 eggs for three months, warming them, then repeating would give us 50 baby parsons?

 

[kinyonga]

@Kaizen said..."who’d have thought that chilling 50 eggs for three months, warning them, then repeating would give us 50 baby parsons?"...I would have!

 

[Kaizen]

I don’t doubt it for a minute! That’s why we all consult you!

 

[kinyonga]

In humans, various enzymes responsible for digestion of various foods in the stomach have a set range of temperatures at which they are active....if the temperature drops a bit because we eat something cold the reaction of digestion slows. I don't know for sure yet how this works in chameleons...but I suspect that chameleon enzymes work similarly.

 

[JoXie411]

It’s been one year now since I got chong and even tho I lost cheech on the Journey I’m happy I got the chance to raise these guys. Keeping them cool this summer in 100+ weather wasn’t the easiest, flooded my cages trying to keep them cool but in the end we are still living and kicking. To the person who told me I would kill them hahah jokes on you because I didn’t and your just a hater hater

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

It’s been one year now since I got chong and even tho I lost cheech on the Journey I’m happy I got the chance to raise these guys. Keeping them cool this summer in 100+ weather wasn’t the easiest, flooded my cages trying to keep them cool but in the end we are still living and kicking. To the person who told me I would kill them hahah jokes on you because I didn’t and your just a hater haterView attachment 279601View attachment 279602View attachment 279603View attachment 279604View attachment 279605

Love them

 

[JoXie411]

Love them ❤

As do I and I hope others can one day ?

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

As do I and I hope others can one day ?

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[salty dog]

good job keeping them alive!!