Ok So how did you Chameleon Fetish Start?

[TSIshinobi]

Ok So how did YOUR Chameleon Fetish Start?

So we (my girlfriend and i) were wandering a reptile show, perusing the tables, and we came across a vendor with some little oven mitted ,multi colored lizardy things, i knew a bit about chameleons before we bought it, but not a whole lot, enough to know what to do and not to do (lights, cage, blah blah). So we impulse bought this Blue Bar and it was all down hill from there.

So we love our little ambilobe, hes mellow and fun, but we couldnt just stop at one....
a few months later... we went to MARS (mid atlantic reptile show for you west coasters), and Chucks table caught our eye, what better to buy but a girlfriend for our little dude, we didnt plan on breeding for another year or so... but then we found out about egg binding... here is the girlfriend Yes i think shes pregnant! (almost time for her to dig)

BUT IT DOESNT STOP THERE,
so my girlfriend originally wanted a Veiled, we passed up an opportunity to buy a gorgeous full grown male Veiled, for a really cheap price, but we decided to wait till the end of the show, and we waited too long we went back and someone was already buying him. So off to NARBC (you better know what that is....) and we picked up a beautiful Veiled (bout 5 months old) from Amazing Blue Reptile, so heres our Veiled (yes hes mad at the world too)

So the Girlfriend does it again.....
she likes to surf the internet looking at Chameleons and falling in love... she saw the Pygmys and was hooked, girls love things that are tiny (most of the time...) guess what we found and took home today....(somewhat of an Impulse buy... we were planning on getting some in the near future) Sorry for the crappy picture the camera doesnt want to focus on them, and i dont want to stress them any more than they already are...

 

[dectr6]

OOOH!! You got it bad! You'll need immidiate intervention if there's any hope of saving you.

 

[TSIshinobi]

all i can say is....


So You guys/gals out there.... How did YOUR love for Chameleons Start?

 

[Treetop Chameleons]

me and my gf are on the same train.so far i have 2 veileds then we got a beerded dragon he is a citrus and amazing looking and we are looking for a gf for him for breeding. we are also now looking for a nice pair of nosy bees i have been dealing with reptiles my whole life but nothing has kept me so enfactuated as the cams its crazy but i will spend whatever and do whatever for them we just love them. plus i have 20 somthing eggs and another cluch on the way. they are addictive that is for sure.

 

[SuperRad]

I used to raise lots of different lizards when i was younger, i was always fascinated by reptiles and amphibians in general. I once went over to visit some family who i haven't really met. The son had a Jackson Chameleon, It was the most beautiful lizard i ever seen. I was maybe 13-14 at the time. a while had passed and i lost interest in reps alltogether. heard about a reptile expo, the site said there was gonna be chams. i read and read and read, then i finally got a pair. then got a jackson. And i know my collection will grow as i already plan on getting some pigmy chameleons.

This stuffs more addicting than crack!!

 

[TSIshinobi]

ok we wont even go into the OTHER reptiles.... ok yes we will....

1 Mississppi Map Turtle
1 Red Eared Slider
1 Southern Painted (RIP Poor Guy Drowned.. not sure why last week)

1 Adult Crested Gecko High Yellow
1 Juvenile Crested Gecko Harlequin
1 Emerald Swift (hes a Spaz)
1 Argentine Boa (shes a Cutie)
1 Albino Corn Snake Unknown Morph..
1 Gold Gecko hes a bastard
1 Marbled Gecko ^See above...^
3 3 toed box Turtles
1 Veiled-mad at the world
2 Ambilobe Blue Bars We Love them!
2 Pygmy Leaf Chameleons.. too cute for word *heart melts*

and last but not least

3 feeder fish.... been alive for 6 months.... just wont die...

 

[dectr6]

Did I mention professional help?

 

[TSIshinobi]

hahaha!


maybe i do need help... but i jsut love them all specially the meleons!

 

[Brad Ramsey]

beautiful animals!

You say: "then we heard about egg binding"
Are you referring to females needing to be bred or they become egg bound and die?
If so, as a point of clarification, I need to tell you, that is simply not true.

-Brad

 

[TSIshinobi]

Come on guys how did YOUR Chameleon Love start??

 

[Ashley]

Yeah, we figured that out along our journeys, but we decided to breed them anyway. I couldn't wait!

Oh, I am the girlfriend. It's a bit confusing that we have our own accounts...

 

[TSIshinobi]

^---no one likes her

 

[Ashley]

Butthead. I don't think this post is working!!!

 

[DrewNYC]

all i can say is i wish i was that restrained, yes my first was an impulse buy, so was the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. was always good wiith animals but really knew nothing of chameleons, looked on the internet and realized the can of monkeys i opened, now 3 years later and 19 chameleons and growing, i have quad eggs, panther eggs, and veiled eggs in the chamber, 7 veileds (husband/wife and 5 children) 9 Jacksonii/jacksonii (husband/wife and 7 children) 2 quads (hopefully husband and wife) 2 panthers (definetily husband and wife).....i just can not stop with them, i moved into a new house, with a 'herp room' that is already too small.
i have not been on the forums alot lately, working, moving, etc but i am very excited with my collection and new cages (i am building), i will post pictures of all my beaut's very soon.

drew

 

[pohchunyee]

LOL....... another victim of the disease called Chameleon Fever... most or maybe all of us contracted that when we first bought our first chameleon. I started with a 3 month old male veiled. 4 months later, I get him a girlfriend. They mated a year later. 28 eggs was laid and 25 hatched. I kept 1 male from the clutch and sold everything. The female got eggs retention and died. I started to go crazy and get a pair of blue bar ambilobe. Then a pair of jackson, then 2.4 pygmies, 2.3 veiled chameleon then 3.7 pygmies, then 1.1 blue bar ambilobe, then another 1.0 Nosy be...... now I have 47 Baby Ambilobe and about 100+ Veiled eggs incubating!!! Is very very addicting. I have to give up on pygmies and jackson......

(p/s: I did not do any impulse buying.... before I got my first Veiled I research for about 6 months, got tons of books etc and get ready before buying any)

 

[DrewNYC]

oh i forgot my male and female giant fischers that's 21

 

[Justin Carl]

well i have always been interested in chameleons, but when i was like 10. i had mom take me to the pet store to get one..... the guy thier told me i was to young to have one. which he was correct!lol now that i was 19 i did my homework and built a cage and started my chameleon hunt. i found my first veiled at the guys shop that told me 9 years earlier i wouldnt be able to handle it and bought my first veiled. he owns a large reptile store with several decades of experience.

 

[davemailcall]

Completely by accident for me. Clyde was found outside my store by a customer in late July. One of the girls I work with was going to take him home, but then she realized she had no where to put him at the moment. So I made a few phone calls and found out my girlfriends brother used to have a cham. He still had an old glass tank and some other supplies.

I knew absolutely nothing about chams. I thought he was neat and everything but I wasnt going ooooooooooooo a veiled cham gimme gimme gimme. Had him about a week and started to get attached to this little guy.

Since I didn't know anything about chams, I began looking for forums. Found this site, got educated, built him a huge cage, loaded him up, got made fun of for spending obscene amounts of money on "a lizard" and now he's my little boy

Glad I found him when I did, we had a horrible heat wave come through Kansas a week later with temps above 100. And with everyone's help here, you saved him again otherwise he'd still be in a glass aquarium!

Of course I still get made fun of for having him. My argument is this: How many people do you know that have a cham? Everyone has cats, dogs and fish....so ORDINARY

 

[Dylan Dutz]

It all started when I went to a pet store and asked to hold a chameleon. When it first crawled on me with it moving eyes, it's changing colors, it's tight grip on my hand with it's feet, it's curly tail, I fell in love with them. I have 2 anoles which are really cool, but chameleons are like anoles but so much more! That's pretty much how it started!

 

[Julirs]

For about 3 years my husband had been bugging me to get a chameleon. Geez-back then I must have thought there were only Veileds because that is what the pet stores always had. As always, the minute that you decide you want something, you can't find it anywhere. I put my name on a "waiting" list and right before Christmas last year, the petstore that I thought knew a lot about chams called, they had just gotten 2 Veileds in. Of course they sold me all of the wrong equipment and a 1 month old cham that was in poor health. He made it 4 days and left us with a broken heart. About a week later I started doing research on the internet and contacted Mike at FL Chams. On January 25th my 8 week old male Veiled arrived! Let the madness begin. He was followed by an Oustalet, a female Veiled, some pygmies, and a pair of Nosy's. There are 70 Veiled eggs and 3 pygmy eggs in inubation. My dining room is chameleon central and the table is covered with feeders and supplies. I am hopelessly hooked! Looking forward to an Ambilobe and Giant Fishers after the new year!