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Carlton
at Tue May 8 17:55:00 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carlton ]
I don't know if breeding females who are cared for well have a shorter life than nonbreeding females. A male who isn't cared for well might have a really short life and a carefully tended breeding female could live several years longer. At least with live bearers there is not quite the same problem you can have with egg layers who produce infertile clutches and need to lay them. The age they live to probably depends primarily on their care in captivity...in the wild there might be some difference, but the main reason chams die in captivity is husbandry mistakes. Compared to snakes and some other herps, chams don't have really long lives except some of the larger species like Parsoni and melleri who have been known to reach 20.
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