Furcifer oustaleti (Oustalet's Chameleon)
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Beloveds sheet: The Chamaeleo oustaleti
Text: Dino Schiff, Italian Chameleon Network
Last review: 02/1999
Common name: Giant Camaleonte or of Oustalet (Ing: Madagascar giant or Oustalet' s chameleon)
Spread: Plateaus and semibarren zones of the Madagascar
Dimensions: 60-80 cm the male, 40-55 cm the female.
Color and sexual dimorfismo: The color is normally marroncino clear with variable shadings and striature dal green al nocciola clearly al nearly black dark brown. The female is smaller and when pregnant it has striature that vary from the red one mattone to red the most intense one.
Terrario: Minimal dimensions 60x40x120h. Must be housed singularly. The temperature must be maintained to approximately 30/35 °C under one spot from 40/60 the maximum watt, protect from one net. The aeration is fundamental, is well to have one frontal wall preferibilmente of fine net. E' finally absolutely obligatory to put within the terrario also a neon type Sylvania Reptistar or Zoomed 5,0 for the UV-B production. Of coppers buckets with to a beautiful plant of Ficus benjamina and a plant of Pothos they complete the furnishing. As substrate for the terrario is possible to use the simple newsprint that difficultly comes ingested from the camaleonte.
Temperature and humidity: The temperature within the terrario must be to approximately 20/25 °C in the inferior part and approximately 25/30 °C max. in the advanced part for permettergli the termoregolazione. Of night it can come down also to 15 °C. The humidity does not have to be never inferior to 50 % if for short periods otherwise series cannot be had difficulty in the dumb one. Spraying a pair of times to the day the leaves a good level of humidity is maintained and it is allowed of drink drips some to them of water.
Feeding: The young individuals go feed to you with crickets of a pair of weeks, camole and tarme of the flour, flies and drosofile. The adult individuals, instead, can be feed to you with adult crickets, camole of the flour and the honey, caymans and other bugs. Sometimes they can also eat vertebrati small: uccellini, topolini and lucertole. Fundamental E' also to integrate the not containing diet with a vitaminico complex vitamin To, but Beta-carotene. To the young people and the pregnant females it must supply an adequate contribution of soccer and D3 vitamin.
Reproduction: The reproduction in captivity is enough difficult. The sexual maturity comes caught up around to 7/12 months of life. The female only goes left with the male for the necessary time for a pair of connections. One or 2 times to the year places from 30 to 60 eggs. The original exemplary of the fresher zones of plateaus of the Madagascar have need of relatively low temperatures for the incubation that can be capacity to fulfillment in approximately 9 months to 23 °C. For the others, with a temperature of 27°C, the schiusa it can happen in approximately 7 months. The eggs go incubated in vermiculite humid or torba of sfagno humid.
Diseases: The camaleonti they are easy subject to you adorned to you, respiratory diseases and of the mouth. A control veterinary of the animal and of I made is always obligatory especially for the capture subjects.
Hybrid Mode
