The reason is that people know how to tell if their cat or dog is not well. Many new cham owners completely fail to recognize there is anything wrong with them.
Part of the high mortality rate is probably as chams are very good at hiding their health problems, if they limped around whimpering...
If you are spraying lots of warm water into a warm enclosed space then you must have a decent humidity level. As the water evaporates it goes into the air, increasing your humidity level.
Revisiting your photo, its common to cover 2-3 sides of the mesh cage with a material, usually some sort of...
What are the temps inside and outside of the cage?
Is there a strong breeze going through the room where you keep the cage? Are doors or windows often open for example?
Can you talk us through how you are misting at the moment?
Hi all,
Im based in Cambridge, UK and picked up my first Chameleon last weekend :D
He's called Kamil (imaginative!) and he's a 4 month old Sambava.
I have attached a picture of his new home which has been slightly updated since the picture with a dimmer stat for the basking bulb and a...
Very much sounds like you are on the right track with the reptibreeze.
I would be very very careful going with a "no drain" solution, you will need to be adding litres of water to your environment each day, it will need to go somewhere.
Some people do use a substrate and appear to get it to...