Chameleon Company
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I thought that was why God invented beer, so there would be no "ugly" chams ?
Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, but if one buys animals that are too small to be showing strong indications of future color, then you are putting yourself at far greater risk to end up with an "ugly" cham. Frankly, I think a main reason chams, especially panthers, are marketed by many when they are too small to show color is to avoid the eventual disparity between how it is destined to color up vs. the expectation created when it was sold by the bloodlines advertised.
Secondly, if the animal is actually an Indonesian import being misrepresented as being CB here in the U.S, which is common, there is another reason to sell it small. If it is only 8-12 weeks old, and 4-5 inches long, the likely filarial worms it is carrying have not had a chance to grow large enough yet and migrate to the outer skin layers, thereby revealing that it was not produced in the U.S., as claimed, but rather in the Indian Ocean region where the specific mosquitoes exist to infect chameleons. This is typical of Indo imports, as filarials typically need 4-5 months in-body to manifest in the outer skin layers.
Tyler is correct too that prime animals tend to show up in the priciest markets, while less stellar animals tend to go wholesale.
Lastly, I did run an ad once for "Ugly" chameleons. Someone else then ran an add for the same species claiming they had the "pretty" ones. I don't think either of us sold much, and I chose not repeat the boast in future ads.
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