You might be addicted...

[ridgebax1]

You might be addicted to chameleons if:
• You get excited when you see an odd shaped plastic container and wonder how you can make it into a bug feeder.
• Your weekend plans include plastic bins, hot glue, screen mesh and your excited about it.
• You hear about a varied diet and you think about gutloading.
• You find a random maggot on your coffee table and are not the least bit phased by it.
• You keep bugs most people pay to have removed from their homes.
• You have a special place in your fridge for various worms and worm food.
• You spend more time planning your feeders menu than your own.

 

[Katrinaa]

Lol!!! I love it!!!

 

[SaintJimmy]

• If you get excited to go to a nursery
• Spend 20 minutes in the plant section at local stores, thinking about how each one would be so awesome in a cage
• Never leaving a pet store without SOMETHING like vines or leaves
• Seeing plastic tubs and thinking how awesome that tub would be for bugs
• Your only thought when you see a nice table is "Gee, that would make a good stand"
• Buckets are only used for drainage
• Tubes are your new best friend due to all your drip systems
• See a spiral and automatically think of a chameleon
• Get visibly upset when you hear misinformation about chameleons
• Pay your pet stores visits becauase you like seeing the reptiles
• Going to a reptile show with lots of money and then leaving with 3$

That last one is the bane of me

 

[Christiefan24]

• save your Christmas bonus money for the first reptile show of the new year
• get your first cham in August and have 3 by January
• stroll thru HomeDepot and look for things to improve your current cage or build your next one

stay up an extra hour every night reading about how to care for your chams.

 

[drcrossfire]

• you add an addition onto your house to fit more reptiles
• you have 4 different kind of roaches... on purpose
• cough cough... see signature
• despite having way too many already... you still find yourself scrolling through the classifieds
• fruit flies no longer bother you
• neither do stray crickets

 

[SaintJimmy]

• You gave me money? Better spend it on my cham.
• That shoelace has to be good for SOMETHING reptile related!
• Forget everything you needed at the store because you are too busy buying reptile stuff

 

[Lathis]

OMG, I love you guys.
I can't see a bug without thinking to myself "would Ferdinand like to eat that?".

 

[Psychobunny]

LOL! what really kills me is, I spent my life HATING all manner of ROACHES,
going out of my way to KILL them on sight,
and now I am buying fresh veggies and fruits, chopping it all up nice and neat,
and FEEDING it to them!!

 

[Kath44]

Letting your fire go out due to reading on here, cuppa go cold due to same or other online info.

Plus all of the above.

Kath.

 

[PoshPenny]

You wake up from your husband screaming ''something is in the bed!!'' and you pull back the covers and its a cricket.


Repticon is this Sunday. Im so excited I can't stand it. Just typing this my heart skipped a beat.

 

[parisaurusrex]

• If you get excited to go to a nursery
  [*]Spend 20 minutes in the plant section at local stores, thinking about how each one would be so awesome in a cage
• Never leaving a pet store without SOMETHING like vines or leaves
• Seeing plastic tubs and thinking how awesome that tub would be for bugs
  [*]Your only thought when you see a nice table is "Gee, that would make a good stand"
• Buckets are only used for drainage
• Tubes are your new best friend due to all your drip systems
• See a spiral and automatically think of a chameleon
• Get visibly upset when you hear misinformation about chameleons
• Pay your pet stores visits becauase you like seeing the reptiles
• Going to a reptile show with lots of money and then leaving with 3$

That last one is the bane of me

Just went to Ikea this past weekend with my boyfriend looking for a new "table" ( a new stand! ) and I was so excited when I saw the plants at the end of the store, I had no idea they were there and all I kept saying was "Ziggy would LOVE this!!" "Remind me to come back here when we do his free range." and then we went for coffee, and the shop had a huge tree.. plant.. type thing, and I gasped and he said "perfect for ziggy?" Adding one to these lists -

-Your significant other knows that almost everything you're thinking about or gasping over relates to your reptile.

 

[Veiled chameleons121]

• If you get excited to go to a nursery
• Spend 20 minutes in the plant section at local stores, thinking about how each one would be so awesome in a cage
• Never leaving a pet store without SOMETHING like vines or leaves
• Seeing plastic tubs and thinking how awesome that tub would be for bugs
• Your only thought when you see a nice table is "Gee, that would make a good stand"
• Buckets are only used for drainage
• Tubes are your new best friend due to all your drip systems
• See a spiral and automatically think of a chameleon
• Get visibly upset when you hear misinformation about chameleons
• Pay your pet stores visits becauase you like seeing the reptiles
• Going to a reptile show with lots of money and then leaving with 3$

That last one is the bane of me

i am defiantly obsessed

 

[Lathis]

You wake up from your husband screaming ''something is in the bed!!'' and you pull back the covers and its a cricket.

This has actually happened in our house...

 

[fuzzhc]

On warm summers nights you can hear crickets in your street even though your from a country where they are not native

 

[Zephalia]

• save your Christmas bonus money for the first reptile show of the new year
• get your first cham in August and have 3 by January
• stroll thru HomeDepot and look for things to improve your current cage or build your next one

stay up an extra hour every night reading about how to care for your chams.

I second that. Especially the part about getting your first cham. in August and having 3 by January!

• you lay in bed at night unable to sleep because you are mentally rearranging the layout of your home to better suit your chams. Re: humidity, drafts from A/C or fans, natural lighting, proximity to heaters

 

[KarmenCham]

Windows OS didn't have Enough Chameleon pictures so you changed to using Suse 13 on linux
You tell the Stores how to look after Chameleons, and correct them on the locales of the chameleons they have
you can tell just by looking at your setup what the Humidity will be BEFORE you look at the hygrometer
the words no more vivariums in this house has been screamed at you by Wife/gf/Mother/father but you went and ordered or built two more secretly (psst they're hidden in the shed shhh)

 

[SmaugDragonofErebor]

Been anxiously waiting for months for the next reptile show saving all your money because you know you spend it all

 

[FlChamMom]

You wake up from your husband screaming ''something is in the bed!!'' and you pull back the covers and its a cricket.


Repticon is this Sunday. Im so excited I can't stand it. Just typing this my heart skipped a beat.

This has actually happened in our house...

Not only has this happened in my house, it happened to my mother-in-law.
She is having a hard time understanding my hobby. She spent the rest of the trip trying to teach me to knit.

 

[PoshPenny]

Did you say " oh now I can knit the cutest little hats for my chams!"

 

[melble68]

Ditto on EVERYTHING. to darn funny. i've been stocking piling so many different containers for i don't know how many different projects. I've been "eyeballing" a mixed nuts container for weeks now since my wife brought it home from Sam's Club. I so sick of mixed nuts right now, no one else w/ "help" me.