Reptile Forum, Reptile Classifieds - CaptiveBred

varanus · Key Member Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 400

yep it looks very good in the summer many pictures will follow of it aswell!
might even have to drag you over with your 20d and get you shooting some of it aswell
_________________
I’m Just So Misunderstood
www.Natureseye.co.uk

Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

Where have you both seen one?
_________________
www.rickslivefood.co.uk

Scott W · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Cool, I spy bananas, sago palms, elephant (pony tail ) palmy thingies, bromelids, maybe a bird of paradise plant or two and a few other things. Will it house reps of some description?

I knew it could be done!

Very Happy

_________________
www.rickslivefood.co.uk

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

That`s the ticket!
Very Happy

SURELY it would be ok to keep Chams in a group situation in such a set up. I am going to stick my neck out and say there possibly may be room for more than one male to establish territories even (bracing myself now for a slating) Very Happy

It must be difficult to keep track of egg laying but on that scale, they might just hatch where they are laid and MAY even manage to stay out of harms way long enough in the dense cover to reach an unpalateable size.

Whether they can or not though, what a cracking set up! Is it a mixed species set up do either of you know? Surely there is potential for that too.

Congratulations to whoever created it. A job well done. VERY good effort!
_________________
YSBRYDOLI POBL, GWELLA LLEOEDD
INSPIRING PEOPLE, IMPROVING PLACES
www.btcv.org
Visit our website - Gwelwch ein Gwefan
www.btcvcymru.org
Llinell Gymorth / Helpline: 08702 40 48 41

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

That`s the ticket!
Very Happy

SURELY it would be ok to keep Chams in a group situation in such a set up. I am going to stick my neck out and say there possibly may be room for more than one male to establish territories even (bracing myself now for a slating) Very Happy

It must be difficult to keep track of egg laying but on that scale, they might just hatch where they are laid and MAY even manage to stay out of harms way long enough in the dense cover to reach an unpalateable size.

Whether they can or not though, what a cracking set up! Is it a mixed species set up do either of you know? Surely there is potential for that too.

Congratulations to whoever created it. A job well done. VERY good effort!
_________________
YSBRYDOLI POBL, GWELLA LLEOEDD
INSPIRING PEOPLE, IMPROVING PLACES
www.btcv.org
Visit our website - Gwelwch ein Gwefan
www.btcvcymru.org
Llinell Gymorth / Helpline: 08702 40 48 41

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

Oops! Got a bit carried away there and pressed the button twice!

Still, repetition for emphasis aye! Very Happy

_________________
YSBRYDOLI POBL, GWELLA LLEOEDD
INSPIRING PEOPLE, IMPROVING PLACES
www.btcv.org
Visit our website - Gwelwch ein Gwefan
www.btcvcymru.org
Llinell Gymorth / Helpline: 08702 40 48 41

Mememe · Site Moderator Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 2141

I would have panthers in there, uroplatus geckos, day geckos and brookesia sp. and make a mini Madagascar. (There would probably bve enough room for them all to create an ecosystem, and the pygmy chams would probably breed.)One day Laughing

(*goes and heads to shed with a few pot plants and a chameleon*)

Peter Parrot · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

[quote="Mememe"]I would have panthers in there, uroplatus geckos, day geckos and brookesia sp. and make a mini Madagascar. (There would probably bve enough room for them all to create an ecosystem, and the pygmy chams would probably breed.)One day Laughing

(*goes and heads to shed with a few pot plants and a chameleon*)[/quote

Mantellas on the floor possibly , or perhaps tortoises, aye aye, fossas! Very Happy

Now I am getting carried away, time for my tablets Exclamation

]
_________________
YSBRYDOLI POBL, GWELLA LLEOEDD
INSPIRING PEOPLE, IMPROVING PLACES
www.btcv.org
Visit our website - Gwelwch ein Gwefan
www.btcvcymru.org
Llinell Gymorth / Helpline: 08702 40 48 41

Rickeezee · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:48 am Post subject:

I agree with Scotts post.......

[As for the yemens, I'm sure there will be stresses by keeping in groups but the point is at what level is acceptable and can anything else be done to lower the impact of stress, ie. multiple basking sites, plenty of hide cover, plenty of food, multiple water sources.
]

There must a correalation between the above and the size of the enclosure, at some point stress factors must cease to exist, question is at what size enclosure can / might this happen. If multiple basking sites etc are provided and stress levels could be reduced to an acdeptable level (probably less than in the wild as no predation) then surely this would be a good thing? Even a cham kept on it's own will at times have some form of stress.

Glad to see quite a few people are getting manic about the madagascan potential of a conservatory type set up. Out of interest are you all left handed? The is a reason for asking. I really do believ eit is good to let ones imagination run wild at times, on the odd occasion very good ideas can come from such creative thought, IMHO.

Rick [/quote]
_________________
www.rickslivefood.co.uk