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Chris Anderson · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone! I'm absolutely thrilled with the diversity of my collection and am quite fortunate to be able to work with a lot of these animals!

I use Cannon SLRs. Those were taken with my EOS digital rebel and actually just with the all purpose lens typically sold with it.

I keep my parsonii in large indoor wire-mesh enclosures. My largest parsonii enclosure is 7' tall x 6' x 3', well planted and lit with a MV bulb on one side, fluorescent tubes on the other for ambient light and a couple low wattage basking areas. I mist them twice a day for 30 minutes each all year long and in the summer when its hot in the house, they are additionally misted every 1.5 hours for 5 minutes each. I've never managed to breed any parsonii but got as close as a gravid female before I lost my previous group to a CO leak.

I keep the hoehnelii in 2'x2'x2' enclosures with 3 sides plastic and the top and front being mesh. Temps where they are kept range from 50F-85F depending on the time of year and time of day. I mist them twice a day for 15 minutes each I just have to watch and make sure the enclosures dry out completely between mistings due to the solid sides of the enclosure and less air flow. I've bred them a number of times in the past but not recently.

Thanks again!

Chris
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Scott W · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Those Rhampholeon spinosum look amazing, are you keeping any now?
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Chris Anderson · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I do have spinosum, they're just impossible to photograph and it just happened that the best pic I have was of one I sold. They are covered with little spines all over their bodies and their rostral appendage is really odd and completely flexible. Here are a couple other pics of them:

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Peter Parrot · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

Very interesting looking species! Any successful captive breeding Chris? How do you keep yours? Are they humidity lovers?
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JStroud · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Once again great photos and a stunning collection of species Cool

What was the basis of the taxonomical shift from Bradypodian to Kinyongia? (if it's easily summarised?? Laughing

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GetCoiled · I've settled in... Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 28

Hi Chris, I'd like to make you my congrats too. I like chams very much and I've never listened some of the species you keep, a very nice collection for sure.
best regards
Stef

BallGuy · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject:

Chris, I'm always over awed when I see photos of your collection, and must admit it a little jealous too.

The photography is stunning too.
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JStroud · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

Chris Anderson · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

Hey, sorry for the delay.

The spinosum do really like humidity and there have been some captive breeding success in Europe. There is an article on Rhampholeon with information on breeding and photos of babies in the E-Zine issue I'm finishing up now (to be released in a week or so). They are only imported as F1 specimens and there is a quota of 19 specimens a year. The captive population in the US is extremely small. Not sure about its size in Europe but its larger.

The taxonomical 'poo' from Bradypodion to Bradypodion, Kinyongia and Nadzikambia is based on morphology, zoogeography and molecular analysis. I'm writing a more in depth summation of the change for this E-Zine issue as well so I'll post a link to that article once I've finished and have it online.

Chris
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