Looking For Anyone With Bearded Pygmy Cham Experience

[LIZARDLOVER]

I have an empty exo terra naturalistic vivarium and am having some trouble as to deciding what I should get for it. I've had my eye on a pair of (Is it Rieppeleon or Rampholeon now?) Brevicaudatus. I would greatly appreciate knowing a few things about them from people who have experience with them.

1) Are they relatively easy to care for? I have leos and a Crestie for comparison.

2) How easily do they breed, and how hard is it to hatch/take care of the babies?

3) Can they be handeled at all?

4) Last but not least, are they worth the money? I know they are about forty dollars, but I could also use any info as to finding them cheaper somewhere.

Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[steve905]

I currently have a pair that I've had for 5 months. They are pretty easy t care for. I have them in a 12x12x12 exoterra. I use a 5.0 UVB flourscent for lighting. I don't heat the tank other than that. they cool to mid 60's at nite. I feed dusted 1/8,1/3" crickets to them. They are quite the chow hounds. I use a sand peatmoss mix substrait, I mist once a day and do a good job soaking them personally. AS far as handeling goes I don't they are @ 2" long and real delicate and I don't really want to stress them out. I haven't had any breeding yet but you never know. As far as worth it...thats a personal choice that I think you need to ask yourself. I treat mine more as a look at than touch type of pet. But thats just me. Good Luck!

 

[RampantReptiles]

The pet store I used to work at used to sell pygmy chameleons that I think are the same or similar to what your talking about. We kept them in a large kritter keeper, under UVB(all our animals were under UVB except fish(reptiles, birds, etc.)), and little to no heat. We misted their tank twice a day, had a ton of plastic plants for them to crawl on and used coconut fiber and sphagnum moss. Fed them 1/8"-1/4" crickets daily.

We never had any breeding but it was a pet store and they came in still juveniles so sexing was not easy. I was under the impression that when breeding/laying was over that the female died? I could totally be wrong.

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

I don't think the female dies...

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

Also, does anyone have experience with breeding them, or a reliable source about it?

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

Bump

 

[RampantReptiles]

I don't think the female dies...

Its what I heard and never got around to reading up on it. Sounds pretty ridiculous and more than likely what happened was someone that bought them bred them and then their female died after breeding.. lol