Hello all,
Im new to the forum but fairly familar with Chameleon's.
My Jackson's Cham. recently died because of the summer heat. Well I don't want to blame anyone, but my housekeep put him in outside while she cleaned the kitchen but forgot to bring him in...

Anyways, Its been a year since he died and I think I'm ready for a new Cham. I DO NOT want another one to die, so IM asking some advice.

I need to state something first: I live with my parents and the loose crickets annoy them.

So I currently have two enclousures. A large and a small. Depending on the age of the CHam I buy I will place him/her in the appropreiate cage.
What I want to ask: IF I have two equally size cages, properly setup one outdoor and one in door.

If I only kept the crickets in the outdoor cage and dropped the Cham in the outdoor cage a few times a week to eat and left him indoors the rest of the time, how would the Cham take this?
I say move him, because summer is coming and the outdoor heat would be brutal on another Jackson's and other Chams. During the cooler weather, Ill leave him outside.

What do you think?
SHould I just try and find a species that can tolerate the summer heat so that I dont have to ever bring him inside during the summer?

Where are you located and what would you do about the cricket issue in the winter?

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I live in Los Angeles CA.
With the cricket situation in the winter, I would drop the Chameleon off in the cage for a short period of time during the warmest part of the day. Its a good way to get authentic UV light as well.

Another thing I am defiantely going to do, assuming i use my current cage. Im gonna run an outer layer of screen around the sides and bottom to make sure the crickets can't get out of that. It that works, then I wont really have any cricket issues inside the house...

Why don't u try roaches? They are bigger and easier to keep in the cage. Of course if they get loose your paraents will probably kill u for sure. Check out orange spotted, not orange head roaches, they are slow, don't climb, and don't fly. If it is possible to say, they are my favorite roaches.

Debby

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