How It Works
Four steps: find your match, contact us, invoice and payment, then homecoming.
How it works
From finding your match to homecoming.
Find the chameleon you love. Contact us to confirm availability and arrange your invoice. We’re here for questions along the way.
Browse photos, prices and lineage. Choose your chameleon.
Send their name or ID and your location. We confirm availability and delivery.
Pay your secure Square invoice to reserve your chameleon.
We arrange safe overnight shipping or expo pickup together.
Find Your Match
Browse Available Chameleons and open the profiles that catch your eye. Each profile brings together the individual’s photos, asking price, hatch date and lineage.
Choose the chameleon you would like to bring home. If you want help comparing animals or planning their enclosure, ask us—we know them as individuals.
Contact Us
Use the contact link on your chosen animal’s profile, or send us their name or ID and your city and state. Let us know whether you prefer overnight shipping or expo pickup.
We confirm availability and the delivery details before sending an invoice. If you have questions about the animal or your setup, we can help by message, photos, video or a call. A call is optional.
An inquiry does not reserve an animal. Your chameleon is reserved when the invoice is paid. Nothing ships or transfers under six months of age.
Contact us
Invoice & Payment
Once we have agreed on an animal, we send a Square invoice by email. You can pay it by card from your phone. We never handle your card details ourselves, and we will never ask you for them over the phone or in a message.
The invoice will clearly itemize:
- The chameleon, identified by clutch and individual ID
- Shipping cost, if you are not collecting at an expo
- Any accessories you have asked us to include, such as a feeder system
Your chameleon is reserved the moment the invoice is settled, and comes off the available list immediately.
Watch Out for Impostors
We only ever invoice through Square, from an email address ending @ectotherminc.com, and the invoice is always paid by card. We will never ask for payment by gift card, wire transfer, cryptocurrency or a friends-and-family app transfer. If someone claiming to be us asks for that, it is not us. Please tell us.
Homecoming
The last step, and the best one. Depending on what we agreed, your chameleon either travels overnight courier or comes home with you from an expo table.
Either way, you go home with:
- A care sheet specific to your animal and how it has been kept
- Its hatch record: lay date, hatch date and lineage
- Our contact details for questions at any hour
Then the important part: leave them alone. Give your chameleon a full week to settle in with minimal handling. Mist, feed, and let them work out that this is home now.
Planning homecoming
Payment reserves them. We plan the trip together.
Availability and delivery details are confirmed before the invoice. Payment reserves your chameleon; it does not automatically schedule shipping. Travel depends on their age and safe weather along the route. Nothing ships or transfers under six months of age.
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Found Your Match?
Send us their name or ID and your location. We’ll confirm the details and arrange your invoice.