blastPHANT1337
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Hello all,
I have a sort of "hybrid" free range. In my 3rd story condo, the balcony was converted into a south-facing sunroom (long before I ever moved in), and so my panther (jorge) and female veiled (big fat trudy) get to enjoy natural light all spring summer and fall, and watch traffic and pedestrians to and from the shops next door. Pretty sweet deal if you are a chameleon.
I'll put up some pictures just because pictures are what free-ranging is all about!
I was wondering one thing though -- have any of you found that it's much harder to get your chams to "want" to be picked up? Before I moved here they were in large cages. I've always hand-fed, and when they were in the cages, Trudy was always VERY eager to come out and lay on top of my monitor while I crammed for exams, etc. Jorge was too young at that point to really get too much human-interaction besides hand feeding treats.
Now that they have been loose in there for 7 months or so, they are much more reluctant to interact with me despite the same amount of hand-feeding. I take the opportunity of rare treats to make them climb onto my hand in order to reach them, which they are happy to do, but they want nothing to do with me outside of that.
That's not to say that they don't spend all their time watching me whenever I am around. The panther comes through the window into my office and spends hours watching me do stuff on the computer.
Now, that's fine and dandy because that's how chameleons are, but I was curious if other people had similar experiences?
P.S. - In case anyone is wondering the two chams ignore one another almost completely. When they do interact it's at most some minor gaping and flailing about, but I haven't seen that since I moved in. They even choose to sleep on adjacent branches within 10 inches of one another in the same ficus, despite there being such a large number of plants in the room and two big ficus trees >6ft tall. ?! who can see into the chameleonic brain.
I have a sort of "hybrid" free range. In my 3rd story condo, the balcony was converted into a south-facing sunroom (long before I ever moved in), and so my panther (jorge) and female veiled (big fat trudy) get to enjoy natural light all spring summer and fall, and watch traffic and pedestrians to and from the shops next door. Pretty sweet deal if you are a chameleon.
I'll put up some pictures just because pictures are what free-ranging is all about!
I was wondering one thing though -- have any of you found that it's much harder to get your chams to "want" to be picked up? Before I moved here they were in large cages. I've always hand-fed, and when they were in the cages, Trudy was always VERY eager to come out and lay on top of my monitor while I crammed for exams, etc. Jorge was too young at that point to really get too much human-interaction besides hand feeding treats.
Now that they have been loose in there for 7 months or so, they are much more reluctant to interact with me despite the same amount of hand-feeding. I take the opportunity of rare treats to make them climb onto my hand in order to reach them, which they are happy to do, but they want nothing to do with me outside of that.
That's not to say that they don't spend all their time watching me whenever I am around. The panther comes through the window into my office and spends hours watching me do stuff on the computer.
Now, that's fine and dandy because that's how chameleons are, but I was curious if other people had similar experiences?
P.S. - In case anyone is wondering the two chams ignore one another almost completely. When they do interact it's at most some minor gaping and flailing about, but I haven't seen that since I moved in. They even choose to sleep on adjacent branches within 10 inches of one another in the same ficus, despite there being such a large number of plants in the room and two big ficus trees >6ft tall. ?! who can see into the chameleonic brain.
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