Teknikolor Chameleons

05/30/2023

We’ll be at the Rothschild Wi Scaled Up Expo on the 4th handing out information, selling hornworms and meeting all of you!

This big boy is for sale too

04/22/2023

https://youtu.be/hqEhXy9akFU

We pride ourselves in our hornworms! Pride yourself in feeding your reptiles with quality hornworms as treats!Visit us! www.hornwormmafia.com

04/20/2023

We are now selling Hornworms! Check it out! http://hornwormmafia.square.site

04/10/2023

Announcing today. I will only me promoting my animals through ReptiPost.com Please join the a community that helps its members be free, and that isn't partially owned by PETA like this one is.

04/06/2023

28 eggs. 23 are infertile. She’s being retired and given a relaxing life now.

04/05/2023

It’s digging day!!

03/22/2023

A little bit about TekniKolor Chameleons and what we do.

We aren't your average Chameleon breeder / wholesaler / supplier. What we do is something most keepers and reptile activists don't quite understand.

While I breed specialty color veiled chameleons, I also sell large quantities of chameleons to places in the pet reptile trade. On average, I sell somewhere between 500 and 1000 chameleons a month. Where do I get so many chameleons? From invasive wild colonies in Florida.

We collect wild invasive chameleons from places in Florida that are overgrown from the original illegal chameleon ranching operations that wholesalers started there 15-20 years ago. They were attempting to circumvent having to pay importation fees and taxes from the Arabian peninsula, so they planted Veiled chameleons in places like orange groves on private property in order to allow them to live in a controlled wild place, and to harvest their babies on a regular basis. Knowing that the animals don't move very fast, are shy, and won't normally come to the ground, kept the animals contained. However this entire operation and way of thinking was and is highly illegal. Many of these people were caught, arrested, fined, etc. And they were forced to abandon the wild colonies. Those colonies grew and expanded naturally while they were left unchecked. Females having 20-50 eggs at a time, 2 to 3 times a year made for a rapidly growing population and they eventually expanded out of the original places.

While veiled chameleons are not a high impact invasive, meaning they don't do any damage to an ecosystem, they are still an invasive species. This means we can collect them at will with no limits and no repercussions as long as we don't re-release them back into the wild. By doing this, we are doing Florida a favor... removing an invasive species from their ecosystem. Florida very much prefers they all be euthanized and removed, but nothing states we can't take them and sell them as they were originally intended for in the first place. By selling them to the pet market and having a decent supply on hand, we keep them affordable for the average reptile owner. With technology advancing in the devices we use to control enclosures, it makes it easier than ever to have a chameleon as a pet when someone educates themselves about husbandry and enclosures while purchasing a proper setup. The days of a veiled chameleon being an expert only animal are going away because of that.

We sell juvenile chameleons mainly due to the fact that they are so new to the world, there is little or no chance of them potentially having parasites. The adults we collect end up going to people who have mass breeding programs, or we keep the wild colored adults with the intention of breeding them in our own program to progress the wild coloration's we have been finding in Florida and no where else, not even in their natural habitats in the middle east.

I hope this is a little bit of an eye opener about that practice and some good information about what I specialize in.

Thanks!

02/03/2023

02/03/2023

07/19/2022

33 new Translucent (piebald) veiled chameleon eggs!

05/06/2022

Well will be at the ScaledUp Reptile Expo on June 5th in Rothschild, WI

04/07/2022

Teaching kids at a young age to not be afraid of reptiles or feeding reptiles.

04/05/2022

Another informational post, this time about UVB bulbs for your chameleons.

Lots of people on Facebook groups, instagram, and even Discord reptile chats will nothing less than force you to listen to their pushy comments about how the only real UVB is a linear T5 type bulb. That isn't so much the case anymore. With technologies advancing, we now have UVB bulbs with LED technology, allowing for bulbs to last 20x longer than before.

https://www.vivtechproducts.com/ Vivtech Products sells a line of LED UVB bulbs called "SurSun" They have a measurable UVB spectrum output as well as having true UVA light. On top of that, the bulbs come with built in Plant grow LED's. Ryan and his wife have been experimenting with this technology for some time and finally have brought it out for the main stream reptile industry. If you look into who Ryan is and what he does for the reptile industry, you'll understand that he would never put a reptile at risk with improper husbandry or equipment.

If you still want to have a linear type T5 bulb for UVB, you'll want to use a ZooMed ReptiSun 5.0 for chameleons, or you can use a Zilla, Exoterra, Arcadia equivilent for a Jungle type animal.

Remember, standard fluorescent and incandescent bulbs are being phased out for LED replacements.

04/05/2022

Basic Hydration information for Chameleon keepers. This subject is about foggers and misting devices.

With all the new technologies we have available to us in 2022, there is no more excuse as to it being too hard to maintain a good hydration schedule to keep our chameleons healthy. Most people think they need to provide a water dish for chameleons. Sometimes that works. I have chameleons that willingly drink from a water fountain I designed on a regular basis. Others will drink directly from the sq**rt bottle while I'm spraying their enclosures. But this is not required if you are properly using automation equipment like timed foggers and misters.

During the day, my automatic Misting system fires water into the enclosures every 4 hours, for 15 seconds each duration. Because the timing system on the misting unit isn't easily controlled. I turned off the duration settings on the unit, and I have the frequency (every 4 hours) set up on a wifi power strip that I can program. This keeps the misting unit from over watering the cages.

At night, the misting unit goes off twice. Once at 10pm, and once at 3am. This allows for physical water droplets to sit on leaves at night.

Along with the misting unit, I also use a humidifying fogger that helps increase the humidity with v***r in the air. I run that unit from the wifi power strip at 7:30PM, 12AM, and 6:45am. That combined with the water from the misting unit will hold humidy to levels.

If you have trouble controlling humidity during the day in your home and your enclosures are dry for extended periods, misting alone may not help all the time. You can use an automatic humidistat devices that detects humidity and can automatically turn on a fogger for the required amount of time to correct the levels.

Veiled chameleons enjoy 35% humidity during the day and 85-90% humidity at night.

04/05/2022

You have to love it when you're trying to help a chameleon owner on a public facebook group with their questions, and the admin chimes in and deletes the comments of you trying to help that person, and bans you for doing so. All because they think they're the one and only authority on husbandry for the particular animals.

I don't support, nor do I believe in any authority of a single group or person as knowing the most about something. So if you're in a reptile group on facebook, be careful, because the admins probably want to control what you say.

If you want responsible husbandry advice and equipment recommendations, stay far away from "The Chameleon Enthusiasts" FB group.

03/29/2022

Thank you for having us.