Let's talk about fogging chameleons in captivity! Petr Necas is back for part two of the interview where we turn our attention to the situations facing people who would like to implement fogging in captivity. Petr leads the exploration of fogging with chameleons so it will be educational to catch up with his latest thoughts. We also touch on Petr's ideas on over-hydration. I am still evaluating that concept myself and so I present to you this interview so that you can hear his logic. Whether you agree or not, the only way to be able to make a decision or be able to look at the evidence is to understand the thinking behind it in the first place. I invite you to take a listen and think on the concepts. And I would like to take high level view of this. The one thing that will make us strong explorers of chameleon husbandry is evaluating reasonable ideas and making decisions after careful contemplation. Even ideas that do not, in the end, turn out to be accepted are valuable in that they allowed us to practice deliberate critical thinking. The act of evaluation strengthens us.

Let's take a closer look into fogging as a hydration technique for chameleons. Petr Necas has been a vocal proponent of fogging not only as a hydration component, but as primary hydration source. And so, I am bringing him and and we are going to be talking about the experiments he has done to show how fogging can be used. Today we focus on how the idea to fog came up in the first place.

Properly hydrating your chameleon is one of the most important parts of chameleon husbandry. Life in the trees presents us with a challenge when we are trying to figure out the best approach. I will be giving an overview of chameleon hydration, the methods used, and what more we need to figure out.

Chronic stress us why chameleons appear to just drop dead. They are not fragile when cared for properly, but they do hide stress very well. And that stress can accumulate to the point of being deadly. This podcast episode will explain it in detail so you will be able to explain the dynamic to others.

This episode is a re-telling of episode 158. Stress is a topic which must be reviewed on a regular basis! To listen to more podcast episodes on Youtube just look for the Podcast playlist on this account or click here

Keeping chameleons together is a way to shorten their lives. Chameleons are not creatures that enjoy the company of their own kind and we need to respect this. But we also need to understand why this is. In today's episode we review the reasons.

This episode is a re-telling of episode 107. Cohabitation is a topic which must be reviewed on a regular basis!

You can keep and breed roaches in a bioactive environment with great success! They are living creatures just like our chameleons and benefit from natural surroundings. Summer Winston from The Shap comes on and shares her experience breeding roaches in a bioactive environment.

The Brookesia Stump-tailed chameleons are some of the most cryptic and fascinating of chameleons! Michael Nash joins me to discuss what he has learned by breeding a number of species.

Is misting dangerous? Should chameleons drink from water cups instead? There are may ideas bouncing around the internet. Some are good and some not so good. But it can be hard to tell the difference. Today I go over a way that we can evaluate ideas and decide to embrace them or move on.

Learn how to keep plants alive! We chameleon people love our plants, but are not always the most successful with them! Today I bring on Elizabeth Vasquez from Propagated Perfection, a small business that specializes in propagating house plants or finding that perfect specimen plant for your chameleon cage!

My trip to Madagascar helped me better understand chameleon husbandry. There is something about being there and feeling the environment that cannot be substituted by just looking at numbers. This podcast and post is about what I learned by going to Madagascar, seeing chameleons in their natural habitat, and pondering how what I observed could affect how i kept chameleons. I invite you to come along with this very special episode. This episode was written from my bungalow in Andasibe, Madagascar while I watched a cyclone drop its rain on the forest.