Scale?

Collide · 01-03-04, 07:47 PM

I want to buy some kind of scale to weigh my chams. Does any one know what would be a good aforidable kind to buy??? I havent even looked yet where do i start?

Trace · 01-03-04, 08:55 PM

I've got the Pelouze PE5 electronic postal scale. It weighs in grams and ounces, has a large platform for weighing items, hold button, has a 5lb capacity blah blah blah. I bought it at Staples and paid too much! It's a long story but I needed one in a hurry so I couldn't argue over prices or spend a few days price shopping in the city. I'm VERY happy I've got one though.

Try Walmart, sometimes they are called spice scales or food scales there. Staples has a few different postal scales, or the ubiquitous E-Bay for even cheaper deals.

Cheers!

Trace

meow_mix450 · 01-03-04, 11:26 PM

just wondering why would you weigh a cham??? to see if its healthly, and not over weight???

Meow

Trace · 01-03-04, 11:33 PM

What is overweight really? Unfortunately there is no standard for weights in chameleons.

I weigh my chams once a week? Once every two weeks to see if they are maintaining or gaining or loosing weight. Decreases in weight is an indicator of early health issues so it's a good way for me to judge if there is problems within my collection.

Trace

Wuntu Menny · 01-03-04, 11:36 PM

Its a great way to track actual mass for breeding purposes, growth rates in juveniles, and careful dosing schedules for WC. I need one that has 1/10 gram increments for working with really small specimens.

You might try looking up lab supply houses in your yellow pages or take a trip down to the neighborhood hemporium or whatever name it goes by out there and find a Dial a Gram type of scale for weighing umm, err... Spices! Yeah, that's the ticket. Herbs an' spices, mon.

WM

Collide · 01-03-04, 11:39 PM

Yea i want to start monitoring there weight better not just by how chubby my female looks. I want to know what there weights are and see if it fluzuates When i get a new baby whenever that is no time soon but i wanna start taking growth data ect just for my own knowlege and in case of problems it will give me a good history,

I came up with a way to measure them too Im gonna tape a vinal flexible ruler on a stick so i can measure my too very grumpy male veilds (there scarry lol yea im a wimp), the others are simple soo yea thats it.

drewlowe · 01-03-04, 11:42 PM

I haven't used my scale on neo, but i did use it with my beardies (until it would say Error), but i do use it to monitor my leopard geckos because i have to (long story). I would have liked to use it for neo but didn't have a small enough container to put him in and measure him on. My digi scale only goes to about 1 pound if that. Sorry don't know what kind but next time i break it out i could take a look.

meow_mix450 · 01-04-04, 01:42 PM

do you guys record it on paper and see how things go everyweek???

Meow

choriona · 01-04-04, 04:18 PM

www.myweigh.com

www.canadianweigh.com

These sites were posted in the general discussion forum before christmas. (If you want to look up the thread.) There was a lengthly discussion about which scales were good and where people were buying them from. I was hoping to get one for christmas, but alas....

Anyways, I also checked a lab supply book in the lab I work at in the university. Yikes. Those very scientific scales go for $5,000 - $15,000. No jokes. But they are very precise and have at least 4 decimal points on a gram. You don't need one like that.

meow- if I had a scale, I think I'd record regular healthy guys ones a month. And sick recovering guys or breeding females once a week.

meow_mix450 · 01-04-04, 10:37 PM

thanks, i was just wondering, never knew about weighing them lol

Meow