Upcoming F.oustaleti project!!

[elchopchop]

hey guys,

Not sure if this is the right section for this but thought I would share with you all my plans for a new Furcifer Oustaleti project I will be starting in the new year. I plan to document each stage and will be posting on here as I go. Firstly this is not my first time owning the Ousties, I had some great success a few years back with 72 out of 74 eggs hatching out (still the largest oustie clutch I have heard of so far). But briefly my plans include;

The chameleons;

1 male, 2 females. WC but will be vet checked and given any required medications or treatments before breeding is attempted.

Enclosure;

4 feet deep, 7 feet high and 9 feet wide, wood and mesh/screen construction, live planted with bio activated substrate and lit with metal halides or similar. I will also have a seperate enclosure for the male should the need for seperation arise.

Food;

I breed all my own food anyway but some tasty treats I will be breeding for the project will be; Fruit flies and pinheads for the hatchlings, crickets, locusts, roaches (dubia and hissers) waxworms, mealworms, pachnoda grubs, pinkies, house geckos and anything else that I may think of along the way

I have all the incubators and vermiculite/perlite I will need and will also be posting up the hatchling cages when I build them, although if my last clutch was anything to go by they wont be needed for a LONG time yet LOL!!

Hydration;

This is something I am still undecided on, my last pair were lovingly sprayed by hand but since the enclosure will be so large I may go for an automated system. The water will be RO - any suggestions people??

So far that is as far as I have got. I am selling my gecko collection to make room for this build and dont plan to start until after christmas. The chameleons themselves are ordered for April next year so I have plenty of time to get things sorted. Anyone have any suggestions or think of anything I may have missed out??

Cheers guys...

 

[Sticktongue]

Sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it. keep us updated for sure! Not many oustaleti posts on here.

 

[Texas Panther Man]

Sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it. keep us updated for sure! Not many oustaleti posts on here.

Someone had some cb for sale earlier this ur. I forgot who?

 

[Meow Kitty]

theirs a female 4 sale in my town she's really big
they dont look very attractive what do the males look like?

 

[tadeusz]

I have 3 males that are just about 1 year old. Erik Sorg was who I got mine from. they were cbb 2nd generations. We need more oustaleti's out there!! I thought about giving breeding a shot if I can find a good captive female in a year or so. Good luck with your project!

 

[elchopchop]

Thanks for the comments guys - I will keep you updated for sure and to the above poster, I am in the UK and Ousties are as good as non-existent over here, I always check the UK forums and classifieds and, apart from the last ones I bred and sold (most of which went to Europe) ive seen two or three offered in the last few years! Definitely need to get more out there!!