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Ok...there's this guy on one of the other forums and he's saying that a pygmy chameleon is terrestrial and can live in a 10 gallon aquarium. He's apparently trying to take care of a lizard without spending the necessary money on it. And if I'm not mistaken...most chameleons are really expensive...and he only wants to spend 20 dollars on the lizard itself. I know very little, if anything about chameleons...but I know that most chams need a ventilated enclosure and can eat quite a bit. He's limiting his crickets to 4 a DAY for the cham. Should this guy even get one or am I just really mistaken?

The leaf/pygmy chams typically are ground dwellers, but there should be a small plant in there too. Someone on another forum has 3 in an enclosure and the male liked to sit in the plant and watch the females on the ground most of the time. You can keep 1 or 2 in a ten gallon aquarium or a screen enclosure as long as the humidity is kept relatively high. 20 bucks sounds about right for them too. They are small - maybe 3-4 inches when adults - so 4 crix a day sounds correct as well (small crix though). They eat snall crix, small worms, fruit flies, small house flies, etc. There is speculation on wether or not they need a UV light or even a basking light. Some people just use a regular light bulb just so theres a little heat and light so you can see them. I want to get acouple captive bread ones before winter. All I see for sale are wild caught ones though.

-roo

I'M SICk OF YOU PEOPLE! You come in here talking about me saying things, as though I knew nothing trying to just be able to say "wow, this guy's a moron" well guess what, i wouldn't ave said that stuff unless I'd done research on them, maybe you people might wanna do that before condemning me, k?

They are watching you.

Feel the paranoia!

Spaz.

i just wanna know how dumb are they? I mean, if I'm talking about getting a chameleon of any sort, i htink it can be assumed that eventually I'm going to end up in th chameleon forum

I am totally lost here. What is going on?

-roo

ivegotabike...why did you think this was directed at you? And frankly, if it was, the poster (doubleok) was mistaken which would have put you in the right

this is a very disjointed thread. ;-/

btw, I replied to your request for info below

lele
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (both MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog (for summer)
0.5 Mad. Hissers (for summer - all girls, no little ones, whew!)

yea... i apologize... i'm not qute sure why i got mad

Xanax dude.....

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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (both MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog (for summer)
0.5 Mad. Hissers (for summer - all girls, no little ones, whew!)

lol no "Mister_Pokey" was the name of my first cham (vieled) but i think i dose of Xanax would help this dude

yeah, I figured the name was an animal name and not a reference to yourself but I just couldn't resist!
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (both MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog (for summer)
0.5 Mad. Hissers (for summer - all girls, no little ones, whew!)

you are mistaken!