ChamEO Clinic begins April 3, 2010

[chamelisa]

Sorry, Elisa. Didn't mean to hijack....just thought that the Super Show might be a great place for another workshop, etc. (as someone else had suggested) since Dave and the SBCK booth seemed to have such good success. What - there isn't an endless supply of green$$ and time like the rest of us have?? (I of course say that in jest....)

I'm a smarty pants!

To do it the way it was done really couldn't work at a show. Especially having it exclusive to chameleon keepers. It was hours long and the room was set up just for the workshop. It wouldn't be impossible to do at a show, just not simple and not as focused.

And of course money is always the big issue. Sooo many ideas and never enough time/energy/money.

 

[summoner12]

Fecal test pics.

Dave doing fecal tests.

Tylene helping Dave out.

Dave love's his gloves

Rob and Dave, very focused

Dave, Tylene and Rob.... Found something?

 

[summoner12]

Plant and cage prep.

Elisa did a presentation on how to re-pot a plant in a bonsai pot, how to trim the plant and how to install sticks.

Mashing the dirt into the roots.

sweeping the dirt.

Giving instruction on how and where to cut the tree for proper hiding and climbing branches.

And here you have it!

 

[chams1]

Sooo many ideas and never enough time/energy/money.

I hear you sister!!

Great pics, Kevin.

 

[summoner12]

General pics around the clinic

Ryan, what was this face again? the cham stare?

Ryan and Shawn already know all there is to know about Bonsai and cage prep...

huh?

I think I was shooting a test shot or something..... but it captured people mingling and stuff... so.. here...

Tylene doing some research

Tylene's daughter with Rob's daughter.

VERY interested.... HA!

chit chat

deep thoughts

Dave loves fecals, look, he must have found something, he has a smirk!

 

[summoner12]

Dr. Molnar.

Dave showing Dr. Molnar the SBCK powerpoint presentation.

Dr. Molnar and Elisa going over some handouts and reviewing some books.

Dr. Molnar.

 

[summoner12]

Pics of chams

Shawns new guy.

Rob's cham

Shawn's cham.... almost 8 years old (so he says HA)

 

[chams1]

Ryan, what was this face again? the cham stare?

Funny enough, whenever I see Ryan, he looks like this. But I will say that he has the stink eye down pat! (Just giving you crap Ryan....)

I really like those glass enclosures in the background (behind Ryan) from Southland. Are they baby enclosures?

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

Funny enough, whenever I see Ryan, he looks like this. But I will say that he has the stink eye down pat! (Just giving you crap Ryan....)

Damn I am good looking. Sorry ladies I am taken. That look just kinda came with my face. I think its a lazy thing, easiest face to make. No muscle usage at all. LOL

 

[summoner12]

Damn I am good looking. Sorry ladies I am taken. That look just kinda came with my face. I think its a lazy thing, easiest face to make. No muscle usage at all. LOL

Ryan, maybe you need some hookworm, it might cure your laziness!

 

[astroprojector]

That was a great event, and I would like personally thank Elisa and everyone who participated.

 

[chamelisa]

...Sorry ladies I am taken.

Oh darn.

I really like those glass enclosures in the background (behind Ryan) from Southland. Are they baby enclosures?

Ryan actually arranged to have them custom made for me by Southland Reptiles. There are a total of 8 enclosures and two of them are double the size of the rest.

They are used mainly for rehabilitating very sick chameleons, but are also used to monitor newly adopted chameleons before they go to their new homes and for housing newly hatched or born babies. I like this kind of set up for all of these situations because they are very easy to reach into, can help maintain a higher humidity and really easy to clean. Being able to clean them completely is the most important thing.

 

[chamelisa]

Elisa did a presentation on how to re-pot a plant in a bonsai pot, how to trim the plant and how to install sticks.

I love doing that to a ficus. I have one pot that I covered in moss that was found in our lawn. The photo here was taken over a year ago. The moss is now covering the fossil and has grown up the thickened tree base.

Maybe I can do a more complete demonstration another time using moss, etc. For the first workshop I was so nervous about that video camera and the microphone. And of course all the unflattering photos Kevin must have been taking of me. LOL!

If anyone wants me to pot a tree for them, bring me the pot, the plant and the cage and I will be happy to bonsai it! My style of cham bonsai is not traditional because I form the tree to the enclosure, not to the true form of a mature tree. But over time the roots bring character to the pot landscape and with annual trimming of the branches, you can make an amazing plant for your chameleon, completely custom. If he has a favorite sleeping spot, you can develop a canopy for him with the growth of new leaves. You can also leave his/her favorite spot for basking and eliminate hiding spots for crickets and roaches.

I was into bonsai before chameleons. I love it very much but don't really have the patience it takes to make true bonsai.

 

[chams1]

Ryan actually arranged to have them custom made for me by Southland Reptiles. There are a total of 8 enclosures and two of them are double the size of the rest.

They are used mainly for rehabilitating very sick chameleons, but are also used to monitor newly adopted chameleons before they go to their new homes and for housing newly hatched or born babies. I like this kind of set up for all of these situations because they are very easy to reach into, can help maintain a higher humidity and really easy to clean. Being able to clean them completely is the most important thing.

I thought they looked like Southland's handi-work (that and the sticker on them...). I like them and what a nice concept. Funny how Ryan never offers to arrange for them to be made for the rest of us.

 

[chamelisa]

Funny how Ryan never offers to arrange for them to be made for the rest of us.

Errrr, maybe I should have said "Ryan arranged it for ChamEO." He was trying to help a non-profit out by using his resources to keep our costs down.

 

[chamelisa]

Howdy,

Elisa has done a great job building ChamEO into a full-on, official non-profit organization that has been able to raise corporate funding for these workshops. The fact that the 3 hour session went for 6 hours shows how useful and important it is to have these workshops . Thank you, Elisa, for your tireless dedication to the chameleon community

How'd I miss this really nice post? Wow, if I ever feel like a failure, I'll just come read this thread. lol! Sadly I do get tired sometimes and feel beaten up. But when something like this comes together, I get recharged and feel like I can go forever. My gears are a crankin'!!!

Thanks again Dave and thank you to everyone in SBCK and on CF for helping make it so successful. Without these groups, the word would not get around as fast.

 

[chams1]

Errrr, maybe I should have said "Ryan arranged it for ChamEO." He was trying to help a non-profit out by using his resources to keep our costs down.

I know. Ryan gives me plenty of grief so I figured I could throw some back his way for a change.