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[shelby]

great pics rick and i love your mellors two .
but all your chams are stunning

[mcfluffin]

Looks like you've spent the day in the cham room Rick They all look beautiful. Franz is very red again, after his brief orange period. Carpets are lovely, and the mellors have grown a hell of a lot since I last saw them. Nice to see Mildred still out and about. Great pics mate!

[Rickeezee]

[Rickeezee]

Thanks everyone for the positive comments.
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[zarozinia]

Fantastic photos and stunning chams. My favourite photo is the third one of the yemens.
Whats this one?

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[zarozinia]

and whats this one?

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[Rickeezee]

The first one is a carpet chameleon Furcifer lateralis Major also another species which is even more colorful and smaller is the Furcifer lateralis lateralis Minor. The one in the pic is a Major. They come from Madagascar and are also commonly known as Jeweled Chameleons (due to the coloured rosettes on their lateral lines).

Interestingly, for a change, it is the females that are more colorful than the males in this species. Although the males are also highly attractive and can put on a good display.

These are amazing chams, very bold, mine often walk straight onto my arm showing no fear at all. Both of the carpet species are extremely colorful the picture only shows a small range of the colours that they can display. Rosettes of beautiful colour are displayed along the lateral line ranging from deep reds, to orange, blue and deep maroon and yellows.

They are a very easy species to keep if the basic parameters of care are adhered to, not growing very big at all, the major at full adult 5.5" SVL. For successful egg incubation a diapause regime is required.

These are one of my favourite cham species, fingers crossed eggs are in the incubator as we speak. I would even go as far as to say that these make a good beginners cham, if there is such a thing.

As their popularity has increased there are more UK CB examples of these superb chameleons now available.


The chameleon in the second picture is a Chamaeleo (Trioceros) Hoehnelii
commonly known as a Hoehnelii Chameleon hailing from Kenya and Uganda and I also beleive an introduced population exists in Hawaii.

Again this is a small species of chameleon reaching an SVL of 4" approx. Not so easy to keep as the carpets. They have high UV requirements and require hot basking temps during the day and high humidity levels 80-100%, also requiring very cool periods at night (mine are kept in an air conditioned room) they can tollerate down to almost freezing point. Not for the feint hearted! If they are not kept cool enough at night they will not sleep properly and over a period of time gradually decline and most likely die. During the winter they appreciate a cooling off period. Unlike the carpets these produce live babies.

These are a very attractive chameleon and their head profile is awesome. I will take soem more pics soon. There are not many of the Hoehnelii being bred in the UK but they have been. I am hoping mine will
breed this year the males are already displaying and head bobbing.
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[mcfluffin]

Who needs books eh?

There is a real contrast between these two species (both with their looks and anatomy/physiology). I'm always surprised at their diversity! When I tell people I keep chameleons they say "how big does a chameleon get?", or "what colours does a chameleon go?". My answer is always "it depends what chameleon you mean". I think people are generally surprised that there are so many different and weird chameleons in the world (and actually, so am I, there's always an interesting species I've never seen before that pops up). They look beautiful Rick, keep those baby carpets safe for me won't you

[christophermchale]

its hard to believe at times exactly how well the DO blend in with their surroundings.
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[Rickeezee]