They were for sale at the West Palm Beach show today. Three of them up in a tree, they were HUGE! Over a foot in length, heads as big as my fist (that of an average woman). Can anyone tell me what they might have been? I'd love to have one oneday. But I want to start small lol.. like a baby veiled or jacksons.
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HUGE Chameleons, what kind?
NocturnalCreatur
Dec 13, 2003 09:32 PM
Replies (7)
JethrozMom
Dec 13, 2003 09:35 PM
if they were yellow and green striped, they were Meller's Chameleons. (C. Melleri)
Mellers are my favorite, but i dont trust wild caught ones and CB are few and far between.
post us a discription of their color!
Jamie
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Jamie A. Stine and the Gang:
1.1 Bearded Dragons (Lancelot & Guenivere)
0.1 Borneo Short Tailed Python (Ezmerelda)
0.1 Red Tailed Boa (Buffy)
1.1 Cook's Tree Boas (Sharon & Ozzy)
1.0 Short Tailed O'possum (Jethro)
1.2 Guinea Pigs (Bud, Buffy, & Belinda)
1.0 Greyhound (Hank)
NocturnalCreatur
Dec 13, 2003 09:45 PM
Yeap, Meller's Chameleons. I did a search of it and the google pics. match the ones I saw today. Except only one was green. The second one was a greyish color with black I think with a few colors coming through and the other was orangish. I would have taken pics. but I left my camera back in the car 
(bad April, bad!)
Carlton
Dec 15, 2003 02:58 PM
The grayish animal with orange was about to drop dead from stress and/or disease. This color is typical of near death from shock or stress. Very sad.
Jovcham
Dec 13, 2003 09:37 PM
Did they have (for lack of a better word) frills down their spine? if so it was probably a mellers. Ive herd they can eat small birds and mice!
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From Sunny Florida
Jovana's kids listed below
1.1 Veileds
1.0 Ambanja Panther
1.1 Tamatave Panther
JethrozMom
Dec 13, 2003 10:12 PM
In the wild, HUMMINGBIRDS make up a part of the diet of mellers.
isnt that wild??? says something for how fast the tongue really does move...
Speaking of mellers, anybody know where i can get some captive bred ones, at least 6 months old?
I've decided that i have to have one, after ive been doign my research for the last almost year.
Theyre still my favorite.
J
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Jamie A. Stine and the Gang:
1.1 Bearded Dragons (Lancelot & Guenivere)
0.1 Borneo Short Tailed Python (Ezmerelda)
0.1 Red Tailed Boa (Buffy)
1.1 Cook's Tree Boas (Sharon & Ozzy)
1.0 Short Tailed O'possum (Jethro)
1.2 Guinea Pigs (Bud, Buffy, & Belinda)
1.0 Greyhound (Hank)
jcunitz
Dec 13, 2003 10:54 PM
captive bred are far and few between. a good portion are captive hatched. i see them on the classifieds here from time to time.
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groups.msn.com/JEChameleons
1.2 Chameleo Calyptratus
1.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Diego Suarez)
0.1 Furcifer Pardalis (Nosy Be)
0.0.1 Chameleo Melleri
Carlton
Dec 15, 2003 03:01 PM
Occasionally keepers have offered them zebra finch nestlings (not adult birds). Melleri are known to take chicks from nests. Mice? I'd never do it. There is a very active melleri forum on Yahoo Groups. If anyone is successfully producing melleri they are probably a member. Check it out. We are working on a caresheet specific to melleri now. It's almost ready for release.
