Free Range Questions

EandEreptiles

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Within the next coming weeks, I will be free ranging my male Furcifer Pardalis. I only have a few questions. For those of you that do free range, what do you use to hang your lights and what lights do you use? Also, do you create a barrier to prevent the from being able to go to the ground, and if so, what do you use? This is my biggest concern because I don't want him to climb down and wander the room. I know what plants I will be getting for him, and I know I will be getting more vines, I have a drainage system and a mister, and feeding is already figured out, I just need to keep his space contained. If you have a free range set up can you post pictures as examples and to give me more ideas?

Thank you
 
Within the next coming weeks, I will be free ranging my male Furcifer Pardalis. I only have a few questions. For those of you that do free range, what do you use to hang your lights and what lights do you use? Also, do you create a barrier to prevent the from being able to go to the ground, and if so, what do you use? This is my biggest concern because I don't want him to climb down and wander the room. I know what plants I will be getting for him, and I know I will be getting more vines, I have a drainage system and a mister, and feeding is already figured out, I just need to keep his space contained. If you have a free range set up can you post pictures as examples and to give me more ideas?

Thank you ��

I used hangers (the type for drywall if that's what you have in the room) for hanging pots or hanging lamps to anchor fixtures to the ceiling. The lights were the same as I'd use on a cage, just larger depending on how close the cham would be able to get to them. Depends on how tall your tree or other climbing structure will be.

For a barrier, several ideas. The cham could possibly climb down (or fall or jump) to the floor no matter what you do, but as long as he can't wander too far that would be OK too. You'll find that once the free ranged cham learns his new space and realizes everything he needs is there, he won't tend to wander after that. Be ready for him to "test" his boundaries for a while.

lay a pond liner on the floor to catch water, set the trees on top, but leave enough extra fabric so you can drape it over a circle of crates, boxes, or even a cardboard vertical wall around the area. Make the wall taller than your cham can reach, and the slick pond liner will keep him from getting a grip.

Get a kiddie wading pool and set your plants in the center.

The enclosure wall doesn't need to be strong, just taller than the cham can reach and smooth so he can't get a grip on it. You could make a barrier out of cardboard from an appliance shipping box with some supporting feet.

Or, if you are free ranging in a smaller room, just block the doorway.
 
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