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This is my enormous blue bar ambilobe. Some of you might recognize the name. He is the son of Chimera from Mythical Chameleons. He was then sold to Matt in California, and then to Lane in Texas. She is whom I aquired him from. He's changed quite a bit from his original coloring. Still has the polka-dotted armband though. This pic is about 2 weeks old. I just tried to breed him and his colors were amazing, but I couldn't get to the camera fast enough. The female wanted nothing to do with him. Now he's sulking on his lowest branch. Poor guy. Doesn't take rejection very well.

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Doug.

0.1 Veiled Chameleon
1.3 Ambanja Chameleons
1.1 Blue bar Ambilobe Chameleons

>>> The female wanted nothing to do with him. Now he's sulking on his lowest branch. Poor guy. Doesn't take rejection very well.

not too many men do - LOL!
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just 1 word....NICE!

As in the Athenian upstart from around 400 BC, first written about by Thucydides. He was the playboy of antiquity.

-Matt

Every one I talk to seems to have a different spelling for it. I think I'm gonna pick one and stick with it. Thanks for the input.

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Doug.

0.1 Veiled Chameleon
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Your right in that it can be spelled that way. I opted to go for the Greek version to pay hommage to Divy and Ivan. Since he was bred by them and they have a thing for Greek mythology rather than what was stolen by the Romans, it seemed appropriate. Maybe you specialize in a different era, but an easy mistake.
-Matt

Being a history major and specializing in Greek history i feel i have to throw in my two cents its actually most commonly spelled Alcibiades

Well, my girlfriend's major is Greek Mythology/History and she just confirmed that Alkibiades is written with a "k" because it is the greek way. Alcibiades is also right but that is the way the Romans adapted it and passed it along to the Western world. For example, Crete was actually Krete and Hercules was actually Herakles just to name a few examples.

I don't know a thing about this but that's what the Greek brain here said. Therefore Alkibiades and Alcibiades are both right and is like Tomatoes and Tomatos (you know what I mean).

Ivan

Well, I think in order to not put ANYONE out, I'm going to change it all together to Alkabides (my own spelling). Since I don't know anything (admittedly completely uninterested in mythology) about the subject, and just liking the name. Those who don't like it will have to deal. It's not mis-spelled, just a different spelling (Americanized). Those that want to chalk it up to ignorance can do so if they choose. Thanks for all the input everyone. Have a good day.
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Doug.

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