MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
The difference between my friendliest boy, Mango and my beloved sassy Stella.
Mango vs Stella
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Motherlode Chameleon
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Thanks for sharing your video's!
Mango is friendly while Stella likes to hiss and bite.
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Jeremy A. Rich
Mango is friendly while Stella likes to hiss and bite.
Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich
Eileen
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LOVE these videos! Thanks! I am thinking (if ever) my little Jade lets me touch her, she will be like this. She will eat a treat worm out of my hand, but that's as close as it gets. You know.. they might be a little like cats. Our male cats have always been lovey dovey while the females only loved us for the food. 
When do the females actually start to get a pattern on their skin? Stella is so beautiful.
When do the females actually start to get a pattern on their skin? Stella is so beautiful.
MissSkittles
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Yes, though you’d never guess and she won’t admit it, Stella does seem to enjoy having her chin and cheeks gently stroked and sometimes her flanks. I just have to get past the bitey bits.Lovely vids and beautiful couple, shows exactly their personality. But, after all the hissing and biting they eventually like it to be stroked between the eyes or under their pouch
While Mango comes runnng as soon as I open his door and is climbing out to me, then is resistant to going back in his house. He just wants to sit on my arm. It must be a panther thing, as Jack was the same. Bart is just a little more cautious before coming out fully and is quick to go back in. If I give her enough time, Kali will come out to me. Lucky either just looks at my hand, hisses or walks away.Thank you. Stella got her patterns when she was somewhere around 6 months old, give or take a month.Those are her resting patterns. When she’s been receptive is when she turns the color on. Here she is sneaking a peek at her forbidden love. It’s an old pic and sadly, he passed a couple of years ago. She hasn’t been receptive or laid any eggs since. They never mated.
They all definitely have their own personalities. I had one male veiled that would literally chase after, running, to bit me. He would grab the skin on the back of my hand and twist to rip off a chunk. The only thing hat would stop him was to grasp his casque gently and hold on to it…because that made him want to be released and took the attention of of biting me.
His sibling was as nice as a chameleon could be and never had any bad reactions to me handling him.
I’ve had equally fierce females and ones that are so docile and gentle.
So it’s not a male “thing”.
I had a male quadricornus that would strain to poop on me if I removed him from the cage and poop in the cage as soon as I put him back into the cage if I cleaned it.
They are just like people…everyone is different…some tolerate a lot and others won’t.
His sibling was as nice as a chameleon could be and never had any bad reactions to me handling him.
I’ve had equally fierce females and ones that are so docile and gentle.
So it’s not a male “thing”.
I had a male quadricornus that would strain to poop on me if I removed him from the cage and poop in the cage as soon as I put him back into the cage if I cleaned it.
They are just like people…everyone is different…some tolerate a lot and others won’t.
Eileen
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I just love her. Jade does not seem to be very colorful at all. Supposedly she is 7 months old, but I never see any yellow on her. Every so often when she is roaming around the cage she looks like the first photo, but when she is just sitting on her stick she's as dull as an old barn door.
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MissSkittles
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She’ll get there eventually. Stella was the color of mud most of the time when I first got her. I was still quite new to keeping when I got Stella, so she matured earlier than had I been keeping her temps and diet under better control.
Eileen
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ah.. so earlier maturity affects their pattern earlier? I have been following all the details here so closely, and really trying to keep her basking temp at 79. I did cut back on her crickets from 6 little ones a day to about 4 a day, but these are a little bigger. She doesn't have any problems munching them down quick so they are not too big. But when I was giving her 5 she didn't eat them all and I would end up taking one out at the end of the day anyway. I just don't want her to have too many eggs too early. She doesn't pay any attention to her egg bin, and stays away from it.
MissSkittles
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Well, kind of. They develop their colors and patterns when they reach sexual/reproductive maturity and with their very first receptive period. You may be able to see some early hints of what they are when she gets ticked off/stressed, but they come and go until she’s ready to reproduce.
That is a bit odd that Jade refused the third feeder. Usually they are very opportunistic eaters and will eat whatever is there. Has Jade been checked for parasites?
LizardLurkin
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It's truly so sweet how Mango just wants to hang out of the nice warm branch that is your arm.
Stella, though. Well, she's kind of sweet in her own way. So spicy and fierce, but doesn't seem put off by the pouch scritches in the end. Very cute videos
Stella, though. Well, she's kind of sweet in her own way. So spicy and fierce, but doesn't seem put off by the pouch scritches in the end. Very cute videos
CharlieWhiskey
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Stella is a spicy little one isn't she! It was cracking me up.
She doesn't know how good she has it.
