Stuff you guys REALLY need to warn prospective cham parents about

Trillian

Trillian

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Like how instead of spending hours mooning over your gorgeous new chameleon, you will actually spend hours drooling over various boxes, cannisters and fixtures at the drug store and Home Depot. Not impressed!

But I just got some amazing bathroom suction hooks for my glass viv, a tall fat dark planter for a laying bin and a nice deep plastic box with clip-on lid for a cricket bin!
 
Just wait till you build your first cage.
or see your cham drink from your mister for the first time.. that took you hours to set up.
or eat the leaves on a plant you spent 20 minutes comparing to other plants when you bought it.
 
camimom said:
Just wait till you build your first cage.
or see your cham drink from your mister for the first time.. that took you hours to set up.
or eat the leaves on a plant you spent 20 minutes comparing to other plants when you bought it.
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^^ its all so worth it. Wait til he eats from ur hand the first time or asks to be let out by stretching torwards u
 
WARNING...

There eyes BULDGE out of there head when they clean them during there misting sessions!

I nearly fainted the first time I witnessed this lol :p
 
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Well, I just spent a good deal of my day off scouring local shops to find a plastic box with a tight fitting lid that I can keep snails in to breed them! I also bought a cuttlefish bone for the snails too! It's not just caring for the cham, you have to care for their food as well! Having been to several stores in my fruitless hunt, I found the perfect tub in the shed that had left over sand in from a laying tub! :rolleyes:

I have just the one chameleon now, and he is a very spoilt boy! My kids are grown up so he really is my baby! I love chameleons, I would have a house full of them if I had enough money to buy all the cages!
 
Amazing what we feel do for them... Can't go anywhere without saying how the cams might like that... that looks like a good feeding cup.... Oh I like that limb and I think the chams will too! Heck I got guys cutting limbs out of my neighbors trees right now and they just asked me if any limbs might have fallen into my yard as they would clean it up. I told them the more the merrier my chams enjoy playing on them! :D
 
I'm petsitting for a friend with $30/week coming to my pocket for the next month and I'm thinking to my self.... there's SO much I can buy for my chams when I get the money!!! I even starting offering my petsitting services to other people just because I want to make my babies (chams) happy....
 
I have a jar above the fridge that I put spare dollars and quarters into... whenever it gets full I use it to go buy the chams new treats or bulbs or decor etc. Dad thought it odd his 22 yr old daughter was not spending it shopping... I would find it odd not to spend it on chams! :)
 
i cant count the hours ive spent in hardware, pet stores , and various nurseries just to get something that i really was absolutly sure i wanted to use in my cage i built
 
To be honest, I spend every single day at a pet shop, hardware store, grocery store, and online. All for my Chams. I love it! I've spent wayyyy more than I've needed to on them. Especially for my first. As much as I don't like buying things when I have to, I love doing it when I don't. Lol.

I bought a new Cham two weeks ago.. Loki the Ambilobe. And just got a Crested Gecko on Saturday. Someone help me.. :eek:
 
CamiGirl89 said:
I have a jar above the fridge that I put spare dollars and quarters into... whenever it gets full I use it to go buy the chams new treats or bulbs or decor etc. Dad thought it odd his 22 yr old daughter was not spending it shopping... I would find it odd not to spend it on chams! :)
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I literally spent my money that I have saved for shoes and purses on my baby cham lol. Totally worth it :D
 
asongforyou said:
I literally spent my money that I have saved for shoes and purses on my baby cham lol. Totally worth it :D
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Oh that's nothing :) Just wait till you paw through all the fresh produce to find the perfect greens for your ROACH colony!

I remember finding the perfect free range Ficus alli tree at a nursery 1 hour drive from home in the dead of winter. This tree was about 7 feet tall, about 5 feet around, and weighed a ton. It was mismarked so I bought it on sight before the store caught the mistake. Rented a van down the street to haul it home, bought yards of bubble wrap to protect the branches, drove into a snowstorm on the way so had to buy cable tire chains, took the front door off the house to get it inside, re-arranged the room for it, hung full spectrum lights from the ceiling for it, drove the van back (yes, another hour), picked up my car with the new trash can pot and bags of potting soil, drove home again, and spent the rest of the evening repotting and washing all the leaves on the massive thing. All for one spoiled melleri.

Oh, forgot...when I raved about the tree to the store clerk she asked me if I was going to use it in a shop or office. No, my chameleon is going to live in it I said. The look on that clerk's face was worth everything.
 
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Carlton said:
Oh that's nothing :) Just wait till you paw through all the fresh produce to find the perfect greens for your ROACH colony!

I remember finding the perfect free range Ficus alli tree at a nursery 1 hour drive from home in the dead of winter. This tree was about 7 feet tall, about 5 feet around, and weighed a ton. It was mismarked so I bought it on sight before the store caught the mistake. Rented a van down the street to haul it home, bought yards of bubble wrap to protect the branches, drove into a snowstorm on the way so had to buy cable tire chains, took the front door off the house to get it inside, re-arranged the room for it, hung full spectrum lights from the ceiling for it, drove the van back (yes, another hour), picked up my car with the new trash can pot and bags of potting soil, drove home again, and spent the rest of the evening repotting and washing all the leaves on the massive thing. All for one spoiled melleri.

Oh, forgot...when I raved about the tree to the store clerk she asked me if I was going to use it in a shop or office. No, my chameleon is going to live in it I said. The look on that clerk's face was worth everything.
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LOL, if I see something worth buying I'd totally do it too. I have no patience on "waiting" for the right things to come along. I'd love to see this ficus :D
 
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