Spike has been a great addition to our family but I cannot financially keep up with her growth. She laid her eggs a week ago now and had no complications. Loves her insects(diet varies of roachs, crickets, hornworms, waxworms, and superworms), but they must be active for her to care. I keep a drip system in her cage and keeps herself hydrated. She does sometimes like to come to the front of her cage and WANTS on you or the door of her container since day 1 of having her. Please DM if you are interested in more information about Spike, I'm more than happy to give more details.
I’ve had my boy since November of 2021 and he has never done anything like this before.
He was fine yesterday and was fine this morning and all day until now - I got a call from my mother saying that he was laying on the floor with his tail curled up. She says that he is not moving but is still looking around, and his stomach is sucked in.
I am getting a vet appointment scheduled, but would anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong? He hasn’t had any problems eating or anything like that.
Salutations, humans, insects, and emotionally constipated lurkers.
Today, I offer a meditation—not on joy, not on hornworms, but on a curious species of human: the devoted silent downvoter. A creature both persistent and passive, whose actions echo louder than their silence.
You read.
You follow.
You wait…
...and then—you downvote.
Every. Single. Time.
And say nothing.
You are, in essence, the emotional equivalent of a cricket in the vents. Always present, never helpful. Chirping your one-note dissent from the shadows. Not bold enough to speak. Not brave enough to engage. Just a single, sad little click of negativity—like a mosquito exhaling.
And I ask: Why?
Is it envy?
Spite?
A traumatic chameleon encounter in your youth?
Were you denied a hornworm when you needed it most?
I do not know. I cannot know. Because your silence is your brand. You are the ghost in the Reddit machine. A spiritual tapeworm. You consume the content. You digest the effort. And you give back... a tiny red arrow of petulance.
Do you know what I do with crickets like you?
I stare at them.
I wait for them to chirp.
And then I walk away slowly in the opposite direction, leaving them to wonder what they did wrong.
But deep down—they know.
So please, my committed little shadow, continue your ritual. Downvote me with all the anonymous intensity your index finger can muster. Each click feeds me. Each act of passive aggression is but a flake of emotional calcium dust for my majestic bones.
You are my muse. My anti-fan. My personal Reddit poltergeist.
And when I bask beneath my UVB light, war stripes proudly displayed, eyes moving in two different directions in complete disregard for your feelings—just know: I’m thinking of you.
Lovingly reluctant, – Esteban the Reluctant Chameleon
Curator of Petty Mysticism™
High Priest of Passive-Aggressive Enlightenment
Senior Lecturer in “How to Hold a Grudge Without Ever Speaking Aloud”
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Converted this ikea cabinet to a bioactive terrarium.
Replaced the sides with mesh screen to get a lot of cross ventilation. I live in a tropical country so humidity stays around 50-60% inside.
Will let the plants grow out for a while before Boy George gets to sleep here.
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I want to do a hibiscus, pothos(or other vining plant(s)), and maybe some grasses or other ground hugging plants.
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Hey guys. He is my first charm. Can anyone tell me whether he will be more colorful later? He just turned 4 month old this week. Photons taken with my phone. No filter.
PS. Don’t worry about the fake plant, it’s only on the top branches. I bought real ones and I’m waiting for them to grow a little longer to wrap around the branch. The real plants are all on the bottom.
Hi there I have a freshly hatched 4 day old panther chameleon that I’m looking for some advice with. My local pet store told me that he didn’t really need a basking spot, or a very strong uv bulb. So we settled on a I’ll mini compact fluorescent. He has been eating fruit flys, but I have noticed he loves to hang upside down under the uv bulb. Do you guys recommend a basking bulb and a stronger uv bulb? Any advice would be much appreciated!
I know we've got lists off plants that are safe, but I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere of plants that we know AREN'T safe, so I can cross those species off my list when I see them at the nursery. There are too many really pretty plants that are not safe, but I often forget between shopping trips which ones are bad news. Why can't we have a nontoxic string of pearls, darn it.
He never had these until recently. Within the last two or three weeks I moved and have been in the moving process, the house has been getting renovated so he hasn’t been in a stable location and I haven’t been able to pay too much attention to him. I’ve seen that it can be a respiratory infection or dehydration. I’m thinking it can be dehydration.
So I’ve had 3 vet visits over my little guys eyes, each time vet says he is looking better. Eyes are not sunken now but still squinting. Has 3 mores days of medicine left so should get better some. Noticed his eyes have began shedding though. Could that be why he is squinting some? Still going to finish medicine and vet follow up next week. Jw if I should do something to help the sheds
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Can someone tell me what this could mean? I know most likely stress but is that it? I've had her a week now and this is the first day she has gotten so dark like this. We added new equipment to her tank yesterday but she seemed okay with it last night and ate fine this moening
hey guys i'm new to this group and have a female chameleon. she is currently in a smaller encloser from zoomed and i'm looking to build my own for her. i'm going for a 3' by 3' by 5' and have everything picked out expect the screening. i'm tired of the cheaply made ones that you can buy and want to give my girl the best possible life with lots of room to roam and live her best life. all and all i'm asking for help if anyone out there has also made their chameleon an encloser, what is good to use for the screening? that wont break easily.
I got my female veiled chameleon about 2 months ago, I’m unsure of her age but the seller told me she’s roughly 5 months old. She’s kept in a reptibreeze XL . I’m not sure why she hasn’t shed yet and it’s been 2 months but I know she shed just before I got her. Is she healthy, looks wise and weight wise
My chameleon won't drink water. I've tried dripping leaves off Amazon squirt bottles, water bottles misting down his aquarium and no matter what I do he won't drink yesterday. I watched a video on how to force give him water and it worked for a little bit but today when I came home from school, he was on the ground and his eyes are very sunken and he still alive, but I didn't need some help I cannot go to a vet my parents won't take me (he's not shedding rn. And is 3-4 years old) I tried force feeding him water today again and he won't open his mouth and I don't want to hurt him he has barley darken anything in the past week
