Teknikolor Chameleons

30/05/2023

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

22/04/2023

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

20/04/2023

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

10/04/2023

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.

06/04/2023

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

05/04/2023

It’s digging day!!

22/03/2023

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!

03/02/2023

03/02/2023

19/07/2022

33 new Translucent (piebald) veiled chameleon eggs!

06/05/2022

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