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Parasites and Ethics: Ethics

in husbandry

November 19, 2022

Most people would not publish this story about parasites on their business page because most people are not ethical. We are. We are also trustworthy, reliable and our behavior is consistent in both public and private. We know this business is about relationships and optimal outcomes for these wonderful animals. That’s why we founded the project with an ethical goal in mind: individually-raised Furcifer pardalis (iPardalis). We believe that sharing information about our experience with parasites will not only help our customers keep their animals healthy, but it could help build awareness and promote preventative actions throughout the industry.

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Selectively Breeding Furcifer Pardalis

in genetics

October 14, 2022

Introduction Given that Panther Chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) colors are polygenic traits, and Panther Chameleons are a sexually dimorphic species, selective breeding for a given color is challenging and many breeders fail to achieve a consistent result. If you are not familiar with what a polygenic trait is, you should probably start by reading our previous post about our Furcifer pardalis Body Color Inheritance Theory. Polygenic traits do not have discrete outcomes, and they produce a distribution of results.

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Tony x Paige

in past clutches

September 10, 2022

This pairing was between our our 4th gen HB from Nugget x Amara, Tony, and our female from Tiffany Mallay, Paige. Paige has great potential from Ambilobe lines from Tropical Chameleons and Modern Day Dragons, and Tony is the spitting image of his dam sire, Artemis, with a little extra yellow from Nugget. These guys hatched out strong and we’re hoping to do an encore pairing with Zandrin next year.

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Arti x Manjalla

in past clutches

August 19, 2022

This pairing was between one of our F1 females from Colorado Chameleon, Manjalla, and our male from Brian Stewart, Arti. They both come from some great Ambilobe lines from Colorado Chameleons and Kammerflage Kreations. The clutch was small and Manjalla was very weak, so we were only able to keep one baby alive from this group. Hatch dates 8/19/2022 - 8/20/2022 Hatch rate 2/17 M1

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Jackson x Imelda

in past clutches

August 16, 2022

This pairing was between our fourth generation hold back, Jackson, and our female from Ramblin’ Exotics, Imelda. Imelda is a great mix of WC Gambit lines and Kammerflage Kreations yellow-bodied blue bar Ambilobe while Jackson is the most vibrant male from our Jack x Mavokely clutch. We will definitely keep this line in our project in the years to come! Hatch dates 7/14/2022 - 8/16/2022 Hatch rate 29/38 F1

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Kintana

in ambilobe-dams

July 31, 2022

Kintana is a line-bred YBBB from Chromatic Chameleons from Capella and Kromatisk. Capella is one of our favorite sires they have produced over the past few years, and Kromatisk is easily one of our favorites over the past decade. We have a decent amount of Felipe Sanchez and JJ/Kromatisk in our existing lines, so we will do our best to avoid those as long as we can. Otherwise, she should bring some more solid genetics from one of the best Ambilobe projects in the USA over at Chromatic Chameleons.

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Mena

in ambilobe-dams

July 27, 2022

Mena is our HB from Zava and F1 Manjaya. Zava had a significant amount of red and a few of Mena’s brothers got it, too. Manjaya seems to have taken after her WC sire, Arlo. A few of Mena’s brothers looked like mini Arlo’s. So less of the Perregrin/Pyro side of the lineage, more of the WC Arlo combined with Zava is what she brings to the table. Mena

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Furcifer pardalis Body Color Inheritance Theory

in genetics

July 23, 2022

TLDR; Most individuals have multiple body colors because the complete absence of a color is extremely rare. If a color is found in that locale, you usually can find at least some of it somewhere on every individual’s body from that locale. Offspring can have more of a given color than either of their parents (just like a human child can be taller than BOTH parents) Environmental factors, like being raised in groups vs raised individually, can have a significant impact on the color of the animal, just like height, eye color and disease resistance in humans (those are polygenic traits, too!

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Bibi (WC)

in ambilobe-sires

June 29, 2022

Imported by One World Exotica in June 2022. Bibi is a very vibrant wild caught (WC) Ambilobe panther chameleon. Bibidia translates to wild in Malagasy, which is why we named our two WC Bibi and Dia. Bibi has a decent amount of red on his face and blue bars with a vibrant green/yellow body. The yellow covers both his body and bars, so his bars almost look green at times.

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Miafina (WC)

in ambilobe-dams

June 29, 2022

Imported by One World Exotica in June 2022. Miafina is a wild caught (WC) Ambilobe Panther Chameleon. Miafina is derived from the Malagasy word for “mystery” because her phenotype is a complete mystery. We are very excited to prove her out with our WC Tratra who is an Ambilobe male without very much, if any, red highlighting. When we watch her sons develop, we’ll get an estimate for what she brings to the table besides fresh WC genetics!

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