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some of my eggs finally hatched the other day. I thought I was going to loose all of them. We had a 'heat wave' several weeks ago and after that most of them shvriveled up and molded. Six have survived. Oh well I suppose....It was my first clutch and I had no real solid expectations. I'm just glad some of them lived.

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1.2 Chameleo Chameleo Calyptratus-Tripod and his ladies
1.0 Leopard Gecko
1.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Nosy Be)-Hooloovoo and Saiya

Well, look at it this way...

6 babies will be a lot easier to feed and house. You could have had to handle 20 or more!

True story:

I used to work at a herp specialty shop in addition to my "real" job. One day a woman drove up to the store in a small sedan, walked in and said she had veiled chams to sell, and would someone come look at them. I went out to the car expecting something in a cage only to see about 20 babies dangling all over a dead bush lying on the back seat and more crawling miserably around the upholstery and floor mats. When the clutch hatched (they didn't even know their female was gravid) they just kept them in the car for several days until they got around to bringing them to the shop.

Jesus thats sad...
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1.2 Chameleo Chameleo Calyptratus-Tripod and his ladies
1.0 Leopard Gecko
1.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Nosy Be)-Hooloovoo and Saiya

do we want to know the outcome? Oh, it must be: Carlton took them all home and nursed each to live long and happy lives
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

Well, not quite! The shop took them all just to get them away from their "keeper". Half of them didn't make it I think (I was only part time). The other babies were sold, but their buyers got a pamphlet I had developed for the shop. So, I'm hoping they got decent care after their rough start. I don't know how many did OK after that. I also had a person to person training that a customer had to listen to before we would sell a cham to them that outlined the realities of cham care including costs, supply list, vet contact list, etc. There was cage display showing how to set them up correctly (live plants, fogger, dripper, correct lighting, screen cage, etc). Sometimes a customer convinced the owner to sell the entire setup along with a cham so I got to build another one. All this was great until the shop was sold and the new manager didn't choose to give so much attention to chams. Then it was back to the old "order off a wholesale list, drop them in a tank and watch them die" routine. Made me sick to see lovely little wc animals so poorly treated. I'd take the tank setups apart, move them to a cooler secluded area, and set them up decently only to find all my work taken apart again the next week. I finally quit the job and reported the shop to animal control inspectors.

a couple years ago there was a couple on here (cannot recall names, but I think it was who I got the jungle gym idea from) and we had a neat thread going about sort of doing "shows" on care at different locations. Like Petco in town xyz would have them in to should the setup, care, etc. Of course this would never happen b/c the big stores would likely not pay for it. it would be like the "classes" home depot holds for things like "how to lay tile," etc. Just think of all the lives that would be saved and frankly, it would be a great investment for the store b/c they could sell complete setups. Heavy sigh...in a perfect world :-
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

Hmmm....a reptile consuling firm....could work if done properly eh?

Kris
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2.1 Black Labs Tucker, Raider and Lacey
1.0 Lepoard Gecko Kumar (Another lost pet RIP and party on with Harold!)
2.0 Horses Smoothie and Rocky
1.0 Husbands (he puts up with me)
1.2 Kids-Trevor (congrats c/o 2006), Logan and Rylie
1.1 Ferrets Tank and Ellie (The fun fuzzies)
1.1 Veiled Chams Squiggy and Pudge (may she RIP)
0.1 Snowflake Cornsnake Lucky

with a lot of forethought, a few trials, good marketing, materials and approach - and of course the right personalities - yeah, I think it is a great idea. I my Nature Literacy/Environmental Ed career doesn't work out maybe I"LL do it! Cyrus, Darwin and the blotchie family will go on the road! lol!
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

best of luck with them - at least 6 are manageable!
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet