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Hey folks.
I never posted in this forum but I have to tell you a little story.
I have dabbled with chameleons in the past and I now have 9 sub adult veilds.

Anyway, I live in South Florida and had them on my back patio uncovered inside a large deep rubbermaid with bamboo for climbing etc until the grew enough for their permament cages.

I just bought some rats to feed my snakes and was going to work so I put a cover over the rat bin, which in effect the cover was just close enough for the veilds to stretch out and escape to the Florida sunshine.

I came home to find 6 missing so needless to say I was upset over my boneheaded move.

I was looking around in my yard and on some fig trees to see if they had ventured off onto any of them then I noticed a neon green clump on a pepper plant I have growing in my yard. All 6 of them walked over 25 feet and conglomorated on this plant!

Can someone please explain what the heck just happened?
All I can think of is that the color of the peppers attracted them.

lol

Scott Pasqua

Is it the closest tallest tree near the bin. Chameleons usually head for the closest tallest tree(or structure if it's indoors) they see when they escape.

There is a stand of bamboo about 5 feet from where I found them.

I just cant beleive they were all in the exact same place clustered together like that.

All the people I talked to have no explanation other than sheer luck.

Scott

Do you feed your chams hornworms? They're a favorite treat amongst chams. Well anyways, hornworms are these giant (up to 4 inches) blue-greenish that feed on tomato, tabaco and pepper plants (depends on which species). Maybe they recognize the pepper tree and thought they'd find some hornworms.

No I dont but its probably instinctive.

I just cant believe they all walked 25 feet to the exact same spot.

Thanks for your responses by the way.

I guesss this is a slow forum.

lol

Scott

Try:
www.chameleonforums.com
It's a more active chameleon forums.