T. hoehnelii: I am an expert!

[bobcochran]

I got my first chameleons in 1992. I've been keeping and breeding hoehnelii for more than 5 years. I had a clutch of 10 about 8 months ago. I divided them into small groups of 2 or 3 keeping males with males and females with females when they were between 3 and 4 months of age. The males color up earlier than the females. I was keeping my eye on a couple of males that looked very promising. The pictured Cham below being one of them. One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!

 

[bbyoda]

Whoops!

 

[AmandaS]

I got my first chameleons in 1992. I've been keeping and breeding hoehnelii for more than 5 years. I had a clutch of 10 about 8 months ago. I divided them into small groups of 2 or 3 keeping males with males and females with females when they were between 3 and 4 months of age. The males color up earlier than the females. I was keeping my eye on a couple of males that looked very promising. The pictured Cham below being one of them. One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!View attachment 292467View attachment 292466

Well he is a beautiful soon-to-be mama!

 

[kinyonga]

You said..."Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!"...I love you anyway!
Welcome to the club. When I first started keeping veileds, for the first batch I hatched, I thought all the brand new hatchlings that patterned up when stressed were the males....turned out they were the females. Didn't even know that males had tarsal spurs (to be begin with) ...nobody told me that!

 

[GrayMadder]

I got my first chameleons in 1992. I've been keeping and breeding hoehnelii for more than 5 years. I had a clutch of 10 about 8 months ago. I divided them into small groups of 2 or 3 keeping males with males and females with females when they were between 3 and 4 months of age. The males color up earlier than the females. I was keeping my eye on a couple of males that looked very promising. The pictured Cham below being one of them. One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!View attachment 292467View attachment 292466

To be fair, you were correct about how beautiful the coloring is.

 

[Decadancin]

This post just made my day...

Thanks Bob!

 

[bobcochran]

Give this female 6 more months, she's going to be absolutely gorgeous!

 

[ERKleRose]

Give this female 6 more months, she's going to be absolutely gorgeous!

She already is!

 

[bobcochran]

You said..."Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!"...I love you anyway!
Welcome to the club. When I first started keeping veileds, for the first batch I hatched, I thought all the brand new hatchlings that patterned up when stressed were the males....turned out they were the females. Didn't even know that males had tarsal spurs (to be begin with) ...nobody told me that!

That was your first clutch! You're to be forgiven. I've had many hoehnelii clutches over the years. Never been fooled this badly. Chameleon keeping humbles one!

 

[Ramrod]

I got my first chameleons in 1992. I've been keeping and breeding hoehnelii for more than 5 years. I had a clutch of 10 about 8 months ago. I divided them into small groups of 2 or 3 keeping males with males and females with females when they were between 3 and 4 months of age. The males color up earlier than the females. I was keeping my eye on a couple of males that looked very promising. The pictured Cham below being one of them. One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!View attachment 292467View attachment 292466

Hey, good job!! I think you just produced the rarest cham known to man

 

[kinyonga]

That was your first clutch! You're to be forgiven. I've had many hoehnelii clutches over the years. Never been fooled this badly. Chameleon keeping humbles one!

First clutch of veileds...I hatched chamaeleo chamaeleons (no spurs) before that...and a few geckos, etc.
Keeping chameleons certainly can humble one!

 

[Bethany_bethers]

I got my first chameleons in 1992. I've been keeping and breeding hoehnelii for more than 5 years. I had a clutch of 10 about 8 months ago. I divided them into small groups of 2 or 3 keeping males with males and females with females when they were between 3 and 4 months of age. The males color up earlier than the females. I was keeping my eye on a couple of males that looked very promising. The pictured Cham below being one of them. One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!View attachment 292467View attachment 292466

What are still some unanswered questions about chameleons that scientists have yet to discover ?

 

[Parkjw]

Wooowwwww

So wondeful

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

One of the nicest males is now gravid!! How can this happen? Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!

Well... when a mommy chameleon and a daddy chameleon dig each other very much...
(or something like that... )

 

[Action Jackson]

I totally know how you feel Bob. I’ve hatched our probably 200 Parson’s and I still can’t sex them. I mark what I think they are early on but many turn out to be the opposite sex.

 

[snitz427]

You said..."Yeah, I'm an expert DUMB ASS!!"...I love you anyway!
Welcome to the club. When I first started keeping veileds, for the first batch I hatched, I thought all the brand new hatchlings that patterned up when stressed were the males....turned out they were the females. Didn't even know that males had tarsal spurs (to be begin with) ...nobody told me that!

Ha! That is how I picked Clarice! I wanted a male. “Oh this one is showing color already!” Yes, she was showing murderous colors!