Hi! I am so glad you reached out here right away. Beman is one of the best husbandry evaluaters here. so you goT spot on advice. the fact that you followed it promptly makes you OJ's hero. Chameleons are masters at hiding ailments. By the time they are showing signs, what may have started as a...
Hello and welcome! For UVB, i have reptisun T5 HO 5.0 or 10.0. 24" housing with 22" bulb for both of my cages. for basking, especially since you are in florida, make sure there is a dimmer switch. Once you put the reptibreeze cage together you will see itseems very rickety. I fashioned cross...
I started doing it with a very sick rescue. When i got Hunter i noticed a constant dehydration issue. I tried everything to correct this with no luck. So i started offering him water with a needless syringe. I would be drenched and he got a kick out of this but i was getting him over the fear of...
So you have decided on a male veiled. Good choice for your first chameleon. He will spend the majority of his time in the top third portion of the cage. Once males are full grown they start to patrol the entire cage about once a day looking for that female that may have wandered in. The nice...
Hi Murphy. I both. My bio is deep as i startedoff with four inches of rocks then sand then soil. I planted my fav plant for chams the swiss cheese plant (heavt stalks and large leaves) directly in the soil and it took the orchid plant finnaly took but both runners(pathos) didnt so in pots. The...
Well you need to create a climbing jungle gym. My vieled doubled in size every two to three weeks. One inch might be ok. I got a dozen roses once and when the flowers died i cut off the tops the got rid of all thorns then made a perch. Itkind of looks like a raft with cross stems on both sides...
Welcome Murphy! Sounds like you are well underway with your build. a few tips. I used coco blocks as bedding for my tortoise. Then my tort got real sick with parasites. The parasites came from the coco blocks. the vet said coco blocks are notorious for paradites. I was told if i ever use coco...
Also area might be itchy and he rubbed it against a branch or something and its an ancess in which case it will be needed to be lanced. Keep an eye on the size that it doesnt get too much bigger begore the visit.
Omg just reread your post. Do you mean brought it home to michigan? Is it a baby? Maybe eggs are in the soil. Wc like to lay eggs in root systems of plants.
Is cosmo alive? I wanted to tell you that turning black in sun is natural and lets them absorb better. Also be careful on too much direct sun as they do get sunburned always have a shade area available for them to escspe too. Young ones need small crickets -10-15 a day and bsfl are great too...