Hello, and welcome to this forum! Hi I wanted to start off by saying Thanks! My chameleon Dehaka has really started showing signs of curiosity and wanting to escape with few signs of aggressiveness, He has been climbing out of his cage when he gets the opportunity it really sucks when I'm...
Next time as a suggestion try to find a Chameleon friendly vet. That's what I'm doing I'm not gonna take mine to a vet that doesn't know a thing about chams…...Unless they have one that works with some reptiles and my cham was in big trouble, or really sick.
Maybe a dripper, or a misting I would start out with a dripper, but you would need something to hold the water on the bottom otherwise it will get all over your cage. also you would need a bigger plant that get's dripped on( it can be fake) But if your fine misting by hand and you have your tube...
Well veily chams are know for eating substrate so if you can go bare bottom and use newspaper to adds in the mail for a bottom plus they make easy clean it's a Win-win
ok thanks, Your gonna need to get on your supplements; Calcium without D3 almost everyday, cal with D3 twice a month, and multi-vitamin once a week. Also you might want bump it up to around 10 crickets a day. And as a suggestion try not to handle him for about a week let him settle in. And here...
https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/how-to-ask-for-help.66/ Can You please fill out this form to make sure you have proper husbandry? because you got you cham yesterday you don't have to answer all of them but please answer most of them
Quick thing you might invest in you don't have to for a while, chams like space vertical not horizontal they like to climb up and be high because there Aria creatures
Please try not to take offence of this but I don't really want to spend the money for a backup cause I would have to buy: A glass enclosure, vines, sticks, plants, a thermometer. It would be A LOT cheaper if I just bought a heat lamp.
I'd rather not by a glass since One I really don't want to, and two I'm building a nice and big enclosure. Question what is the minimum temp at night for a veily? If I need a space heater I'll use it but I don't think so. Also Tiosk I don't need a glass I live in Florida and this is only a small...