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Jason Answers To All Your Questions

charm_paradise May 26, 2003 11:09 PM

Jason-

I am willing to forget about your past posts @ my character, as long as it never happens again, and if you take what I say as advise and not as trash, and through it away! You were not fooling anyone, buy posting under a different name! Your chameleons should not suffer because of your acts. If you can start posting well thought out questions that make sense and don't post nonsense you will fit in, you don't need to show off we are all here to learn. I am more then willing to help, but I don't want to repeat my self over and over again with the same info to the same question to the same person. PLEASE understand when I do, and others have to do this it turns us off from helping. When you piss off one person there are many others that will not take likely to you. Now answers to your questions;

1. they are not eating like they usually do ... i noticed this a couple of days ago and was wondering if this is normal, and they are just living off of the food from previous days

Gravid females will stop eating and get restless when it is close to egg laying time. Also some chameleons will feed more one day and less the other day. You should only be worried if they don't eat for a few days 3-5, and are not active, sleep most of the day and so on.

2. they bothe hang upside down from their SCREEN (lol) cage, and sometimes slip and nearly fall. because they are delicate i was wondering if there was anything i could do to perhaps prevent them from falling

I would not worry to much. They are know to be very active and this require large cages like the larger panthers. They may be doing this because there basking spot is not @ the correct temp, check the basking temp and make sure there is a gradient temp in the cage. What do you have in there cages they MUST have live plants, I keep a jungle of plants in each of my cages. Use bio-vines Chris crossing over the top of the cage, they will use them for walking on and as a basking spot. Gravid female stress very easy, DO NOT HOLD THEM, KEEP YOUR DISTANCE, but keep a close eye on them and make sure there is a container in there cage 6-12" deep for laying eggs in when the time is right. DO NOT DISTURB THEM, if they don't deposit all there eggs, this can cause death. After they lay all there eggs, they should start to eat and drink allot, make sure they get what they need the first week or so, then cut back on feeding amount. If you can post pics of your chameleons and there cages setups, I think this can help in clearing everything up! Hope this helps!
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John
1.1 Ambilobe Panthers
1.1 Nosy Be Panthers
1.1 Sambava Panthers

Replies (2)

jsinger May 27, 2003 05:31 AM

you help is greatly appreciated
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Jason Singer

jsinger May 27, 2003 08:32 AM

i actually do not have a dc, and i need to wait for the film to be developed ... i will post pics ASAP
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Jason, Ichiro, Mika & Toki

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