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The enclosure has a glass front and back, but the two sides are all mesh. How can I improve circulation? I keep an overhead ceiling fan running most of the time in this room, since I work in here with him!

Here's another shot: Temp reads 81F in basking area and 53% humidity. I just misted him a bit ago, so the humidity is a bit higher than usual for daytime. I try to keep it in the high 30s during the day. He shoots his tongue fully out when he goes for food. He's been pooping a ton, like two...

Hi yall, 9-month-old male Veiled has been opening his mouth slightly throughout the day. I've caught him doing this three or four times now, but he always closes it as soon as I approach, so I had to take this photo from super far away. He's looking at a hornworm in this photo, but he...

They're insane too :/ $10 for hornworms and $20 for shipping lol

Hi everyone, I'd like to order some hornworms online. I live in California, so the retailers I've found online are trying to charge me $10 to $33 to ship a small cup of hornworms to my house. It's outrageous. The price of hornworms is also absurd at pet stores here; it's $10 for 4 worms at...

Thanks Skittles. I wish my chameleon would eat Dubia. There are still Dubias living in his bioactive terrarium from like 3 months ago when I last tried to get him to eat them. Am I feeding the crickets correctly? Should I give them any other foods?

Hi all, I've got one of those cricket containers that has 4 black tubes for them to climb into for darkness / hiding. The tubes slide out for easy pouring into a feeder cup. In the container, I keep a dry paper towel with plenty of mustard greens and shaved baby carrots. I used to keep a piece...

I bought the Arcadia! Thank you for your help. Do you know where these lights ship from?

Hi everyone, I've currently got a 14" Zoo Med T5 HO UVB fixture with a Repti Zoo 5.0 bulb inside. This fixture does not span the width of the cage; I need something around 22". I was thinking of buying this one: Repti Zoo 24W T5 HO UVB 22" but I can't figure out if it's got a 6% bulb in it...

Just wanted to bump this and tell everyone that we installed a CLEAR feeder on the cage wall, and Charms has been FEROCIOUSLY EATING OUT OF IT! He's put on 10g since I last posted. Apparently the color of the feeder really matters to this guy! Thanks everybody

Hi everyone, I've got a 6-month-old (maybe 5?) male veiled chameleon, and he's just now experiencing his second shed. It looks different from his first. His first shed was 6 weeks ago, and it looked as normal as any shed I've ever seen in a reptile: he basically "unzipped" from tail to head...

Thanks for your feedback. Just to be clear, I am not holding this little dude almost ever; only to weigh him once a week. I'm not trying to play with him or anything. I understand chameleons are to be left alone, especially veiled chams.

He will not eat out of a gallery. Or feeder cups. Or hand-feeding. Or anything at all, ever. He will only eat bugs that crawl around the enclosure, and even when he does that, it's only about 5 bugs a day. We have to go in and remove bugs all the time. I don't understand how his humidity is too...

Hi everyone, my 5-month-old male veiled is looking a bit discolored, and his urates are orange -- but his poops are still super wet and slimy. I wanted to ask for a health check. This little dude is 16.1g, up from 12.4g exactly one month ago. He eats crickets (confirmed), dubias and wax worms...

Hello everyone, My 5-month-old male veiled seems to be having an eye issue. My wife noticed his right eye looked a bit different from the left eye one morning when she turned on his lights. First, it looked like it was bulging a bit, and then later it looked a bit sunken in. We've caught him...