Well well well, hello everyone! After a couple of days of ever increasing roaming on this splendid forum and site, I have finally let the Chameleon Spirits pull me in and join the Reptilehood! I am pleased to introduce myself and eager to participate, or, more realistically, watch and learn 
As a short introduction, I am a pan-european multinational currently in one of my home countries, France, and during daytime I slowly march towards the depth of chemistry laboratories - yes, chemists can be (and more often than most professions, are) nature lovers!
Well anyway, I am quite a beginner with chameleons, my only experience so far has been a Ch. senegalensis inherited from a then schoolmate, the poor thing did only last 3 months and a half before flying off to the chameleon-valhalla. It turned out to be a captured specimen, diagnosed of massive parasitosis and gastro-intestinal infection resulting thereof (yeah, sometimes the science-talk comes back, but my meds are not too far away)
This bad experience - though some cham fans here in town told me that for this particular species, 3 months with such a diagnosis was almost a record, if a sad one - sent me away from the chameleon frenzy for a while, but I couldn't just abandon the idea. I've been documenting, reading, studying the theories and experiences of others for about a year now, and I am about to restart the experience, but with the right background - and now the right forums in bookmarks
As far as the other sauria are concerned, I've had a successful 3 years of practice with a pair of Pseudemys nelsonii (but their latin name is more volatile and changing than most of the chemicals I deal with daily); a funny buddy impersonated - imtortulated? - by a Kinosternon baurii; and two junkies, Phelsuma nigristriata (I just call them the potheads, as they have days of chilling on a half-eaten banana-mash, and days of hyperactive dancing...whatever, I may be as crazy as they are, probably more so).
And I take pleasure in concieving terraria, currently the only living things allowed outside of my bedroom (a sister as a roommate is not always easy) are a multitude of platys and watersnails in a jungle-ish paludarium.
And thank the turtle-filled heavens for the three submariners, as I call them, for those platys are more prolific than Chris Tucker in a fast-talking contest! Yet the kinosternon looooves the orange ones, hehe..
And here I will end my greetings and presentation, as you may want to see other parts of the forum as well - if you've read so far
I hope I'll be of some use, mostly in terrarium technologies as my chameleon knowledge is mainly theoretical Most of all I hope to spend good times here on the forum, as I have seen so far, there is no risk that it will be otherwise
As it is a custom in Paris, kisses to the Ladies, and handshakes to the Gents.
Your humble and mad servitor,
As a short introduction, I am a pan-european multinational currently in one of my home countries, France, and during daytime I slowly march towards the depth of chemistry laboratories - yes, chemists can be (and more often than most professions, are) nature lovers!
Well anyway, I am quite a beginner with chameleons, my only experience so far has been a Ch. senegalensis inherited from a then schoolmate, the poor thing did only last 3 months and a half before flying off to the chameleon-valhalla. It turned out to be a captured specimen, diagnosed of massive parasitosis and gastro-intestinal infection resulting thereof (yeah, sometimes the science-talk comes back, but my meds are not too far away
)This bad experience - though some cham fans here in town told me that for this particular species, 3 months with such a diagnosis was almost a record, if a sad one - sent me away from the chameleon frenzy for a while, but I couldn't just abandon the idea. I've been documenting, reading, studying the theories and experiences of others for about a year now, and I am about to restart the experience, but with the right background - and now the right forums in bookmarks
As far as the other sauria are concerned, I've had a successful 3 years of practice with a pair of Pseudemys nelsonii (but their latin name is more volatile and changing than most of the chemicals I deal with daily); a funny buddy impersonated - imtortulated? - by a Kinosternon baurii; and two junkies, Phelsuma nigristriata (I just call them the potheads, as they have days of chilling on a half-eaten banana-mash, and days of hyperactive dancing...whatever, I may be as crazy as they are, probably more so).
And I take pleasure in concieving terraria, currently the only living things allowed outside of my bedroom (a sister as a roommate is not always easy) are a multitude of platys and watersnails in a jungle-ish paludarium.
And thank the turtle-filled heavens for the three submariners, as I call them, for those platys are more prolific than Chris Tucker in a fast-talking contest! Yet the kinosternon looooves the orange ones, hehe..
And here I will end my greetings and presentation, as you may want to see other parts of the forum as well - if you've read so far
I hope I'll be of some use, mostly in terrarium technologies as my chameleon knowledge is mainly theoretical
Most of all I hope to spend good times here on the forum, as I have seen so far, there is no risk that it will be otherwise As it is a custom in Paris, kisses to the Ladies, and handshakes to the Gents.
Your humble and mad servitor,
