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I ordered the 60w Exo Terra daytime heat bulb you recommended to replace the red one, and it arrived today! I'll be swapping it in soon. I will remove the moss. I bought the Govee Smart Thermo-Hygrometer recommended by you folks. His daytime basking temp is 82, and his night time temp is 68...

Hi all, My 3-month-old veiled chameleon Charms has been in my home for 9 days now, and he's begun to establish a routine. I'd like to tell you about it and show you some photos of him for any feedback / guidance. Charms sleeps on his topmost branch with his little chin resting on the branch...

I've had him for 4 days, and we don't know how he was fed before beyond "small crickets." The guy was really busy at the expo, so he didn't have time to teach us much about how he raised the chameleon. His feeders aren't too big because I've seen him eat them! He seems to crunch them up in 3 bites.

Hi folks, I've got a 3-month old male veiled that I adopted recently. He's very shy about eating or drinking around me, so it's always difficult to tell if he's actually eating enough. I put about 12 medium-sized crickets in his enclosure each day, but it's a bioactive enclosure so I assume some...

Can I stick this bulb into the lamp the red bulb is currently in, or do I need to buy a new lamp as well? Sorry, I'm quite new at this!

If I buy this, should I also get rid of the T5 HO? Or should I use them both at the same time?

Damn, those are some gorgeous chameleons. Thanks for the photos. Big update! We completely reassembled Charms' enclosure per the recommendations in this forum. We removed the hammock, all fake plants but one (which he likes to hide in), and most of the bamboo. We also put a huge dracaena...

Unfortunately I can't even find any droppings yet. He had 1 solid poop the other day but no urates at all that I could find. The enclosure has a lot of plants so the dropping was hard to find. If you scroll up higher in this thread, you can see photos of the enclosure. We are making a lot of...

Okay folks, so tonight my wife and I carefully selected some oak branches from a safe area in the woods that doesn't get sprayed. We rinsed them down with those hose outside three times, then gave them a bath in the bath tub with very mild handsoap. Now, we are baking them at 250F for 1 hour...

There's no way I can check for spurs; he's way too small and hidden in the enclosure. He won't come near me :( I feel like a failure of a cham owner! I'm going to harvest some oak branches today and sanitize them, then rebuild the enclosure. I bought three more cham-safe plants to fill out the...

Which light should I replace it with? You name a specific one and I'll get it. The feeder crickets are very small. I don't think they are the problem. Enclosure is on a desk. He is six feet off the ground when he sits at the top of his enclosure. I asked the breeder twice. He guaranteed it was...

Hi everyone, Update: Charms is still very dark green / brown. He's been in his new enclosure for 2 days, and I haven't seen him eat or drink anything yet, but I understand they are pretty private about that at first. Also, no poops that I can find. Charms hissed at me this morning very...

I've moved the heat lamp just a little closer to his hiding spot, so we will see how that goes. The distance is 8 inches.

Hi everyone, I adopted a 3-month-old male Veiled yesterday from the Repticon Expo in Southern California. I built a 4-foot bioactive terrarium for him with Maiden's Hair ferns, Pothos plants, and an Umbrella plant. It's also got a few fake bushes for extra hiding. The enclosure has isopods and...

Can anyone recommend a trusted veiled breeder, preferably in California / west coast, where the shipping won't be long? I don't like the idea of an animal being in a box for a week.

Where do you recommend I go to adopt a chameleon then? People keep telling me, "don't do pet stores, don't do breeders," etc. I really don't like the idea of ordering one online and having them stick it in a box and shipping it to me. That sounds horrifically cruel.

Man, I really feel like the reptile store that sold me all of this stuff really misinformed me. I've got an entire structure of bamboo branches in the enclosure, fastened together as one giant piece, per their recommendation. So now I'll have to either sand them down to get them a bit better...

Rose, sorry for the slow reply: 1. We don't have one picked out yet; we are going to a reptile expo this weekend to browse. My wife is certified in exotic animal training from EATM and is a former zookeeper with a BS in biology. We've been adopting animals (especially disabled animals) for...

Thanks for the info everyone. I do not yet have the veiled. I'm adopting one this weekend, hopefully. The enclosure is finally set up. My wife and I built a bioactive enclosure based on some videos we watched, and we spared no expense. Got all chameleon-safe plants, special reptile soil...