New Orange-headed gracilior

[jajeanpierre]

I picked up this big boy today. He arrived at the importers late last night. Pictures don't do him justice. He's stunning! The second picture was taken by the importer literally as they unboxed him. The orange is even on his turrets.

 

[MikeT307]

Hope you are able to breed him. He's a cool looking chameleon!
Congrats on the new addition

 

[ChameleonZeus]

Lovely chameleon !

 

[MortiMarie]

Gorgeous. I love reading about these less common chams through your posts.

 

[Fiona's Mom]

You are right....absolutely stunning. I am sooooo jealous.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Gorgeous. I love reading about these less common chams through your posts.

The only reason they are uncommon is because no one set them up to breed and then the imports stopped. Although never as common as quadricornis (simply because they are in more remote areas higher up the mountains in Cameroon so not as easy to collect), they were fairly common a few decades ago when a lot of imports came in. No one set them to breed and then the imports stopped so the species aged out.

 

[jajeanpierre]

You are right....absolutely stunning. I am sooooo jealous.

I have some captive bred and hatched babies ready to go to their new homes....

 

[Fiona's Mom]

I have some captive bred and hatched babies ready to go to their new homes....

I would love to get one but right now I only have a little more than a month's experience with Fiona (a veiled) so I better wait until I have more. I already wish I would have gotten a male. When I got her I didn't know about the extra care they require. She is around 6 months and doing well though.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I would love to get one but right now I only have a little more than a month's experience with Fiona (a veiled) so I better wait until I have more. I already wish I would have gotten a male. When I got her I didn't know about the extra care they require. She is around 6 months and doing well though.

I was a complete novice owning my first veiled for about 6 weeks when I got my first wild caught quad. A month later I got a big group of quads and my first pair of graciliors (the parents of these babies), a total of 10 beat up wild caughts. One died within two weeks from acute respiratory failure from lung worms (per necropsy by the vet). Another died when it bled out because a vet nicked an vein when giving subcutaneous fluids to treat the reaction to a drug she gave it for it's hurt toes from climbing the screen.... The other eight are still alive and doing very well. If you set them up right, they are really hardy. I feel a novice can do very well with a healthy captive bred baby in part because a novice is attentive to their needs. They don't want it hot or dry and that's easy to set up with a mister, an air conditioned house and a solid sided cage. Just because they are rare does not mean they are difficult.