Chameleon skeletons
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chameleonfan101
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Very nice thread! Its super interesting! Thank you go helping continue learning about this beautiful creatures!
Niels Pedersen
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Does any one know this alex?
I have been trying to get in contact with her, but never heard from her.
Any one know her?
I have been trying to get in contact with her, but never heard from her.
Any one know her?
Alexl
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Yes, some german chameleon keeper know me...
I don't know how you tried to get in contact with me, but I didn't get any e-mail. Maybe you tried the @hotmail-adress, that's the one I never use. I'll write you a PM
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Alexl
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To leave not only words this June... These are pictures from a male Furcifer pardalis, which had a real awful stomatitis, but I couldn't help him anymore. His whole head was just porous bone and pus. In fact, he had lost his right mandible, there are no teeth anymore in the left maxilla, his nose tip was completely disturbed and the bridge was rather a big cavity filled with pus and covered with skin. On his left mandible you can see a stage of inflammation beginning to break the bone.
What you might take as a message from this poor chameleon: Never say "It's nothing special, I don't need a vet yet" if you found anything looking like a little lesion in a chameleon's mouth.
And for comparison only, a picture from a healthy Furcifer pardalis head.
What you might take as a message from this poor chameleon: Never say "It's nothing special, I don't need a vet yet" if you found anything looking like a little lesion in a chameleon's mouth.
And for comparison only, a picture from a healthy Furcifer pardalis head.
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Alekthechameleon
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They look like dinosaurs haha
Alexl
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No, I don't sale any of them
. Some of the skeletons stay with friends of mine (e.g. an Archaius tigris or the little Kinyongia). But I'm not a professional taxidermist and don't make money out of it. That's just a hobby.
OMG! Thank you for all the pics!!! So just wondering is it posible to pay you to do that if Sunny ever passes away (Not anytime soon but it's going to happen) I was actually talking to my boyfriend a few weeks about perserving them and here you are showing off your awesome skills!
Alexl
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Need to correct myself. Two years ago, I said it's probably not possible to prepare something smaller than a Furcifer lateralis. Last autumn, I prepared some Archaius and I told people that it would be much more difficult to do a smaller chameleon. Well, it's possible either way. That's a Rhampoleon spectrum pictured below.
Depends on the bone size. I first try to scrape as much muscle as I can in bigger chameleons as Furcifer pardalis or Chamaeleo calyptratus. Then I'm dipping it once shortly, not longer than a second or two maybe. The muscle will start to bubble and foam. I'll let it dry and then go on with scraping and dipping.
You can only leave few bones inside 30% hydrogen peroxide for more than some minutes. Especially tiny heads (young chameleons, Kinyongia spp., Bradypodion spp.) are going to break into their bone parts. I added a picture of a Kinyongia head divided into its parts... that's nothing you really want to puzzle. You need to gain experience in time you can leave a bone inside the hydrogen peroxide, but you can simply begin and try some seconds with cleaned skulls or bones. If the result wasn't that white you wanted it, you leave it inside some minutes more. That's what I do and it works mostly. I'm curious to see some results if you tried this method.
Depends on the bone size. I first try to scrape as much muscle as I can in bigger chameleons as Furcifer pardalis or Chamaeleo calyptratus. Then I'm dipping it once shortly, not longer than a second or two maybe. The muscle will start to bubble and foam. I'll let it dry and then go on with scraping and dipping.
You can only leave few bones inside 30% hydrogen peroxide for more than some minutes. Especially tiny heads (young chameleons, Kinyongia spp., Bradypodion spp.) are going to break into their bone parts. I added a picture of a Kinyongia head divided into its parts... that's nothing you really want to puzzle
. You need to gain experience in time you can leave a bone inside the hydrogen peroxide, but you can simply begin and try some seconds with cleaned skulls or bones. If the result wasn't that white you wanted it, you leave it inside some minutes more. That's what I do and it works mostly. I'm curious to see some results if you tried this method.Attachments
Cainschams
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Really neat! Its really cool to see the tavetana skeleton since that is probably my favorite species. Really cool to see it disassembled. Thanks for sharing
Alexl
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Here's some special preparation. It's the vertebral column of a very old Chamaeleo melleri with spondylosis. Some vertebrae already had ankylosed. I give you a picture of a healthy column from another chameleon to compare. Just for those who want to learn and don't see naked columns regularly .
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