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HEY I WAS WONDERING IF PARSONS CHAMELEONS WERE REALLY THAT HARD TO GET OR IS IT THAT THEY ARE JUST SO EXPENSIVE THAT NOBODY WANTS TO BUY THEM AND RISK THEM DYING. i PLAN TO DO REASERCH ON THE SPECIES FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND WHEN I GET OLDER I PLAN ON BUYING A PAIR AND I WAS JUST WONDERING HOW HARD IT WAS TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THESE BEAUTIFUL CHAMELEONS. AND IF ANYONE KNOSE ANY GOOD SITES WITH INFO ON THEM COULD YOU TELL ME I ALREADY HAVE SOME BOOKS ON THEM BUT IVE READ THEM ALL. THANX A LOT
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They are very hard to get and usually it's a single animal available. I have seen 1 o 2 being sold here but i believe seller was asking somewhere around 2000.00 if not more.

Here in UK they are rare, but i hear they are much rarer in US, im proberbly wrong. I have only seen 12 specimens been sold, all al one shop which unfortunatly i didnt get a change to visit. But also, they are a hard chameleon to look after. They need a very large cage and a tonn of water. They need to be cool, as hot weather could kill them, if your area is usally very hot (85*f) or above, i would reccomed you dont get one. Anyway, goodluck for the future, i see you are egar to get one, ill be hoping to get some when im an adult.
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-Jamie Whitehouse
-corn_snake_123@msn.com
-formally known as corn_snake_123

they are really hard to get right now you might see some wild caught one for 1500-2000 bucks but captive breeding is hard and with an incubation time up to 2 years on eggs that is a lot of time for things to go wrong. they are one of the hardest chameleons to keep happy and healthy.

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Not only are they hard to get, expensive, and demanding, this is a species that should only be kept by someone dedicated to keeping the species going both in the wild and in captivity, and be able to devote all their attention to careful captive breeding. Most keepers who even have an animal for sale will be very fussy about who they will sell to. A buyer would have to demonstrate success with generations of other species, have a large outdoor facility to house them in perfect conditions, and have the finances to deal with serious vet care. The wild populations are under a lot of pressure both from habitat loss and collection. They are currently banned from import by many CITES nations though a few sneak out. If I found one for sale I would be extremely CAUTIOUS about its legal status both to keep smuggling from being profitable and to keep the species from being collected into extinction.