40 gallon long tank for R. brevicaudatus?

Hello
New to chamaleons. Actually do not have any now just finished setting up the terrarium and waiting for plants to take hold and start growing plus going to add some pothos.

My plan is 1 male and 3 female R. brevicaudatus. Tank is 36 inches long -16 inches high and 12 wide.

I know chamaleons do not like each other but reading the posts here I think this will work?

Here is terrarium pic .
Keep in mind plants just planted thus not growing yet and yes I added to much water which is evaporating now and close to gone.
I plan to order and add them in months or so when plants take off.

Any ideas ,input would be great. Maybe to much wood in it?

# After I posted this I realized the tittle is wrong I meant to put 30 gallon long but put 40 gallon long but could not edit the tittle.

Thank you

I think it's too much wood, but it's just my personal opinion on the looks. There are not enough perches for the animals. You will want to add lots and lots of small twigs foe them to climb on. You will probably want more plants anyways. I don't think those will grow enough for decent coverage. You should have enough foliage that you can't find the Pygmies without looking really really hard.

Thank you very much. I suspected the wood was to large and needed many more smaller twigs for perches after looking at the pics here.

Will remove it all other than corkbark slab as like the look and will replace with lots twigs.

I am going to add pothos and wait till thicker plant growth till adding the chameleons.

Thanks

Ivy and mosses can look very nice in the enclosure as well. Ivy grows really fast too. All my Pygmies love to sit in bundles of ivy.

Ferns are great too. I put a couple in over the summer and they are growing very well. I also have an umbrella plant that I keep trimmed small, and they love that. Lots of plant options for the little guys.

lisa h said:

Ferns are great too. I put a couple in over the summer and they are growing very well. I also have an umbrella plant that I keep trimmed small, and they love that. Lots of plant options for the little guys.

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Oh how funny. I have ferns and umbrella plants in yard and never thought of trying a small one and keeping it trimmed.These are some of the umbrella plants..

I don't cut them in yard and rather large but going to try a sprout and keep it trimmed.


Thanks

pssh said:

Ivy and mosses can look very nice in the enclosure as well. Ivy grows really fast too. All my Pygmies love to sit in bundles of ivy.

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Any particular type of ivy you like?

I only know backyard plants not familiar with ivy but picking up pothos this week which I think is an ivy and adding today ferns and umbrella plant cutting.

Removing all the wood and adding twigs.

Thanks

For the umbrella plant, you want to make sure it's an arboricola. That is the safe kind. I don't know that pygmies eat plants, so I don't know if toxicity would be a problem that way, but I worry about contact problems. There's a plant section somewhere her, if you want to do a search. Sadly I don't know much about plants, other than what's safe to put in my cham enclosures LOL

Be sure to post some pics when you've redone it!

I just bought the kind they had at home depot. . I also bought a fern (for $7!!!) and it died a good way to get nice plants is to join a dartfrog forum and look in the classifieds section. A lot of people grow them and sell them.

If you get a fern, try and spit it and plant in several places. Chances are some will live. Home Depot and Rona are the main places I get mine (cheap and good! lol). Sometimes I've gone to Walmart, although they rarely have what I want. I've also gone to a local nursery and found that their prices were really good. I found a great umbrella plant for my Werner's enclosure there. I think my ferns came from there too.

pssh said:

I just bought the kind they had at home depot. . I also bought a fern (for $7!!!) and it died a good way to get nice plants is to join a dartfrog forum and look in the classifieds section. A lot of people grow them and sell them.

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Thanks I have ferns and bromelids ,bamboo plants,etc in my yard (Florida) so going to use several of the cuttings.

Never thought of using them because they get so huge but will now keep them trimmed.

I am also ordering springtails and need to get fruit fly culture going first.

Thanks

lisa h said:

If you get a fern, try and spit it and plant in several places. Chances are some will live. Home Depot and Rona are the main places I get mine (cheap and good! lol). Sometimes I've gone to Walmart, although they rarely have what I want. I've also gone to a local nursery and found that their prices were really good. I found a great umbrella plant for my Werner's enclosure there. I think my ferns came from there too.

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I have ferns all over the yard , Going to add cuttings.
I do have lots of yard plants but never occoured to me that by cutting them I could keep them small as I just let them grow.

We have plant nurserys around here and think they sell to Walmart .
Last plant I bought had ashy gecko eggs which hatched but sadly never heard of pygmy chamaleons on any of the plants lol.
Thanks