When did you get your first Cham and what locale was it?

[Kansascity]

Just curious as to when you purchased your first Cham, and what locale everyone started off with. Also where did you end up today? ie: Breeding, how many, etc.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

I started with a veiled 3 years ago. Still have him, but then got (in order) and panther, jacksons, 2 brevs and a carpet. All males but one brev and the carpet. I may get a male carpet later... My brevs have 3 eggs cooking.

 

[chams1]

Too long ago to remember, I got a baby veiled cham. I quickly caught the bug and since then, I have kept several different species and have bred quite a few of them including, panthers, translucent veiled, verrucosus, pygs, melleri, fischer's, carpets, hoenhelli....and a couple others I think. This love for the cold-blooded also led me to start Chamo Wear, Inc. and I also am Windy City Chameleons.

 

[Miss Lily]

Lily was a female veiled and I got her almost 3 years ago. I then got Amy nearly two years ago (she is 2 now), followed by Tommy (both Veileds) who I have had for 16 months (he is about 3 years old). Keeping chams has led me to Crested Geckos and I have a male and female of those too! I much perefer the lizards to furry pets now! The bug has well and truly bitten!

 

[sandrachameleon]

It was in the 1990's that I got my first NosyBe panther. I occassionally breed, but mostly I just keep pets. All panthers, NosyBe, Ambilobe and crosses between the two. Usually no more than 8 adults.

 

[Samcham1]

I got my first chameleon about a year ago, and it was a Pygmy. I then got 2 more brevs and a sambava and jacksons earlier this year.

 

[dagy24]

I got my first cham a month ago and she is a female ambilobe. I'm getting a male tomorrow. Also ambilobe. Would love to get a nosy mitsio.

 

[Hoj]

i got my first guy Camo hes a veiled, and just 2 weeks ago i added a second little guy Gizmo, my beautifull little nost be panther. prob be adding a faly in the next couple months

 

[laurie]

I bought my first ambilobe panther about 8 years ago. I didn't even know the difference between male and female panthers. Can you say impulse buy??? Yes I was at a reptile show and had to add to my dragon collection. I am still adding and still learning.

 

[KatCham]

I got my Nosey Be x BB Ambilobe panther cham about a month ago.

It's my first experience owning a cham, but I'm hooked already and I know Simba is the first of many

 

[rastamarley]

H have a male jacksons I got about 10 months ago he rocks!

 

[fluxlizard]

1992 got a tiny pair of veileds a few weeks old. Were shipped delta so I had to drive 50 minutes to the airport to pick them up on arrival. $250 ea. they were still a pretty new species to the hobby- heck most any chameleon successfully kept long term and bred was a pretty new phenomena.

I'll never forget how tiny they were and how afraid I was that one would die.

I'll never forget how fast they grew. In those days the thinking was adult size in 3 1/2 to 5 months months and breed them the female's first cycle was the best thing for them and we kept them hot and in 29 gallon aquarium tanks and fed them 2 or 3 times a day.

I'll never forget how amazed I was that the female dug all the way to the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket to lay when the time came.

There was something magical about that first pair...

 

[Elizadolots]

My husband bought me my first chameleon for my 50th birthday. It was the only fully grown chameleon available here at the time. He was a Fischer's. He died recently. I have a young captive bred Fischer's now.

 

[hallenhe]

My first was a subadult male Jackson's in 2003. He died in 2005, and I got a 3 month old male panther. Thaxter (the panther) died just a year ago at a little under 5 years old, and I currently have a male panther and female veiled, both a little over a year old. Also had a colony of bearded pygmies for awhile.

 

[Kansascity]

WOW! I hope to be in this for the long term (meaning to keep continuing having Chams in my life for however long that may be). I am a new owner of my 3 A M panther, 1 F veiled and a M veiled. I am doing all I can to educate myself even after the fact I had thought I had done that ! before buying. I am always worried though treating them like they are human newborn infants. I really appreciate finding this forum I have learned a bunch in a short time and there is much more knowledge to gain. Thanks Again to all

 

[theresaintucson]

I got my first cham, a female ambanja, in September of 2010. She was from LLL Reptiles and I got her at the Tucson Reptile and Amphibian show. I now have a total of 4 panther chameleons. It's a real struggle for me not to check the want ads because I am so tempted to add more.