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anson
at Mon Jul 14 17:45:02 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by anson ]
is something you should do for the love of it. Try keeping a male cham first and see what you think about it before shelling out bucks to start breeding.
First of all chams are difficult by their very nature and take tons of time to take care of. Even easy species can be problematic.
No chams can be housed together and be bred. They are solitary animals and stress easily. They hate the company of their own kind and are brought together only to breed and are separated again (usually only hours after breeding).
The only chams that can be housed together are the leaf chams and they are even harder to take care of and keep healthy.
Female chams need an intense diet of gutloaded crickets/insects to be able to produce healthy eggs and offspring. Their gutload needs to have the right proportions of nutrients for proper fetal development and to prevent eggbinding (quite common)
Proper hydration of chams is time consuming and difficult due to their skittish nature. Sometimes they just do not like how you set their water up for them and they won't drink it properly. It's a trial and error kind of thing and you have to be very observant and in tune with them to figure out what they want.
Sometimes they can be finicky eaters and they like variety in their diet. They can be quite expensive to feed. They usually end up liking the most expensive thing you feed them.
If you want a reptile that is profitable to breed, chams are not what you are looking for. You should only consider breeding them because you just love them and are facinated by the process.
I am not trying to be a downer, I am just letting you know what you are getting into.
Sincerely, Sonia
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Breeding chams - anson, Mon Jul 14 17:45:02 2003