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Hi I just got a male Jackson's (Chamaeleo jacksonii jacksonii) and was thinking about getting a female Mount Kenyan Jackson's (Chamaeleo jacksonii xantholophus), anyone ever heard of "interbreeding" of these two, or had any success? Thanks

i have spent at least dozens of hrs surfing this subject and come up with zip, i have never even heared of cb jacksons breeding outside of their sub genus, although there have been a few implications of that in their native habitat, i have often wondered the same thing myself , i mean all 3 variations are quite similar and they are all live bearers,so i personally feel it might be possible,although one might have to try several different pairings with varied pairs in order just to get a sense, i know all the purists are going to whine (but the thread is not about the right or wrong of it, its just about the possibilty of it) i personally would love to see a dwarf xantholophus or j. jacksonii /or j. jacksonii with the hardiness of a xanth, i read a post where a xanth breeder only mated with a female that had a rosteral horn , so as an experiment, his owner took another hornless female, (which he had tried with unsuccessfully several times), and cool melted a small prosthetic foam horn and the then supposedly mated. who knows about the validity of that experiment or even the post but it sort of makes one wonder , my point is if one assumes there is any truth to that experiment, then that means they are capable of being tricked, plus (i am not advocating but) i have often wondered if artificial insemination) would work ?