My Chameleons, feeding time

[Baccus]

My chameleons almost never show themselves preferring to remain in their huge hollow log while the tank lights are on and wont even be tempted out by a smorgisboard of tempting foods.

But finally I caught a couple of them out and about enjoying some new native fish crumble I got as a trial for the gobies (don't worry the gobies are in a non shrimp tank). It appears that I even have finally found even a young chameleon so I am hoping that means they are actually breeding and the young are maturing in this jungle of a tank where the predators are potentially spotted blue eyes and dreaded hydra.

[Squiggle]

Looks awesome, that's very cool news that your shrimp have bred, congrats! :encouragement:

[Baccus]

The blackmore River Shrimp have been breeding in this tank and the easiest way I can tell them apart from the chameleons is that the chameleons have a very skiny body compared to the blackmores. Now to just find proof of the red noses also successfully breeding in this tank.

But it really is a jungle in there and I am loathe to thin or even trim the plants since the spotted blue eyes are laying their eggs in the plants and the fry seem to be finding shelter and suitable food in the jungle too.

[Baccus]

One of my chameleons having a leaf eating comp with the DRN shrimp.

[northboy]

They will drive you NUTZ Girl, looking in the tank so hard LOL. Do your chameleons show any of there other colours?

I was looking at some Red nose in mid water the other day and they are funny to observe, they all swim head down and move as one, also in mid water they have the huge black strip down their backs and the Red on there nose is gone. I wish I had a video camera with me but I most likely could not have taken the time to film it any way, the Tide was rising and I was running the risk of being stranded on the island by Crocs.

Bob

[Baccus]

The main colour I have seen my chameleons has been the dark brown/ black with the tan stripe, only once have I seen one of them turn red like a odd cherry shrimp and even rarer blue. I suspect their main choice of brown is because of their tank having mostly black sand, the huge hollow log and tannin stained water. The main thing to me is that they seem happy and if they do breed successfully in the tank then its a bonus.

I do love watching DRN's hover swim, I think they remind me more of helicopters than dragonflies.

[northboy]

They are good to see because they move like a school of fish.

The different areas the chameleons come from have a different dominant colour form, you still get a spread of colours but there is a dominant phase, Vall beds seems to be Red and Par grass beds is black and white, dark under cut banks with fine tree roots have a variety of colours, but each of those groups has a wide colour range, in the breakdown of numbers it is a 80% dominance of one of the colours.

They also go in boom and bust cycles, as most of the Shrimp do, very soon you can see the mass migration of Red nose juvys, it is about the same time as the Empire Gudgeons

Bob