Kat_72
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So in the process of selling my babies I joined groups on social media like someone suggested. What I have found is that the moderators there are full of bad advice and won’t listen to reason.
It makes it hard to help anyone when a authority figure so to speak rages against sound advice as incorrect and then gives advice that is backwards to the right way to do something.
I had a woman call me very eager to buy a chameleon and she didn’t stop talking while explaining how experienced she was. She went on to describe her enclosure for her other chameleon a veiled and to tell me of the waterfalls etc. The waterfalls or drinking fountains she is talking about are not advised to my knowledge anyway. She told me a moderator of the site was so helpful in helping her get all the right equipment.
After 15 minutes of her talking I excused myself to get a child off the bus while shaking my head at the waterfall and all that bacteria at the ready. Maybe I am wrong. But I know I wouldn’t risk it. Last week someone posted a bunch of photos of said water falls and the comments of all the people commenting with I got mine made me a little queasy.
Can I just say I am thankful for this forum! From day one before I got my first chameleon I was researching here. A lot of things seemed dated but it was still relevant. I have learned here and been helped here with sound advice.
My next rant is this why are so many people selling chameleons so cheap. It effects the entire breeding community. I think for a standard of care that is invested into raising up even one clutch the price should be fair to the existing breeders by not selling 5 babies for 250.00. Then that person flips them and so on. But it’s there I see it with people who haggle for a lower price and get upset because so and so sold theirs for 150.00. So then the bar is lowered the standard is lessened.
My babies have been hand raised with what is equal to a full time job in time and work...at least I feel like it has with hand misting cleaning daily keeping feeders going and then raising all the insects. That factors in to overall price. Right?
Also I know what I paid for my stock that I bred to create these babies. The lineage is there for a good reason. I will reinvest what I make back into my chameleons and it just makes sense to not undercut your line. Plus I watched Bill Strands podcast here—> https://www.chameleonbreeder.com/podcast/ep-93-pricing-baby-chameleons/
So with all that I’ll end my rambling on the subject because I know you all are educated in all of this anyway. It just is frustrating. I can’t see one more post about a sick chameleon sleeping with a caption my chameleon sleeps so cute in the daytime for his naps, or my chameleon loves me so much he runs out of his cage when I open the door. Just NO!
Thank you for listening lol
It makes it hard to help anyone when a authority figure so to speak rages against sound advice as incorrect and then gives advice that is backwards to the right way to do something.
I had a woman call me very eager to buy a chameleon and she didn’t stop talking while explaining how experienced she was. She went on to describe her enclosure for her other chameleon a veiled and to tell me of the waterfalls etc. The waterfalls or drinking fountains she is talking about are not advised to my knowledge anyway. She told me a moderator of the site was so helpful in helping her get all the right equipment.
After 15 minutes of her talking I excused myself to get a child off the bus while shaking my head at the waterfall and all that bacteria at the ready. Maybe I am wrong. But I know I wouldn’t risk it. Last week someone posted a bunch of photos of said water falls and the comments of all the people commenting with I got mine made me a little queasy.
Can I just say I am thankful for this forum! From day one before I got my first chameleon I was researching here. A lot of things seemed dated but it was still relevant. I have learned here and been helped here with sound advice.
My next rant is this why are so many people selling chameleons so cheap. It effects the entire breeding community. I think for a standard of care that is invested into raising up even one clutch the price should be fair to the existing breeders by not selling 5 babies for 250.00. Then that person flips them and so on. But it’s there I see it with people who haggle for a lower price and get upset because so and so sold theirs for 150.00. So then the bar is lowered the standard is lessened.
My babies have been hand raised with what is equal to a full time job in time and work...at least I feel like it has with hand misting cleaning daily keeping feeders going and then raising all the insects. That factors in to overall price. Right?
Also I know what I paid for my stock that I bred to create these babies. The lineage is there for a good reason. I will reinvest what I make back into my chameleons and it just makes sense to not undercut your line. Plus I watched Bill Strands podcast here—> https://www.chameleonbreeder.com/podcast/ep-93-pricing-baby-chameleons/
So with all that I’ll end my rambling on the subject because I know you all are educated in all of this anyway. It just is frustrating. I can’t see one more post about a sick chameleon sleeping with a caption my chameleon sleeps so cute in the daytime for his naps, or my chameleon loves me so much he runs out of his cage when I open the door. Just NO!
Thank you for listening lol
