Happy days

[Mr Jingles]

Yeah, I finally managed Mr Jingles to hunt his crickets on his own. Up to now I had to either hand feed the little man or slightly squash his crkckets and put them one by one for him on a leave. Today I accidently dropped 2 od the crickets kn his enclosure and decided to take them out later. Whoowoo the predator in him took over just now. Sat and watch him for about 25 mins as he slowly hunted down first the one cric and then eyeing to find the other. I think he has finally settled nicely in the new mesh enclosure and I can somewhat relax a bit now

 

[chameleonneeds]

That is great to hear. What species of chameleon is he? Did you catch him?

 

[Mr Jingles]

He is a 10 week old flap neck chameleon born in captivity. I was clueless when I just got him and had him in the totally wrong enclosure to start with. He's only been in the right enclosure for about 3 days now

 

[chameleonneeds]

Could you please tell me who it is that has captively bred these chameleons?
I find it hard to believe, there has been a number of people claiming to be selling captive bred flap necks or "carpet chameleon x flap neck chameleon" hatchlings. These people have simply caught the chameleons or bought them for R50 from hawkers near suncity and resold them at the price that baby veileds go for. Thats a hard blow considering that you could buy a male panther for the price of 2 flap necks that these idiots are getting away with.

How much did you pay for your flap neck?

Are you also aware that it is illegal to keep flap neck chameleons without a permit? And I wouldnt try applying for a permit, it will get rejected. The permit system works where you have to buy the captive bred indigenous animal from a breeder that has all his adults on permits as well as the babies that hatch. I doubt the 'breeder' you know has permits for them. Don't let Natcon catch you, you'll be handed a R4000 fine with more penalties involved.

 

[Mr Jingles]

I found out after that I can't really keep them, but he is here now and I will make the best of it. I don't know the guy personally but saw the mother and father and there was about 12 little ones born. So I do believe he is captive bred.

 

[chameleonneeds]

Thats great. I hope your flappy does well

It would actually be very nice to work with captive bred indigenous chameleons.

But exotics are easiest at the moment