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You will need to click each image to see the notes I wrote on them. But this is how I have mine setup so that Victoria's temps are just right at all times. Heat Sensor Location: Hanging Lamps and On Top Fixture: I'm sure with tweaking your own you will be able to make your...

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Well this is more of a questiong of Tempature.. Is he getting enough heat? You should get a remote sensor to be placed in the basking spot to see just how hot it is. Darker could mean he is not hot enough and is turning darker to absorbe the heat. Walking away from the spot or turing almost...

Metal Screen Cages are best for outdoors. There are a few things that you can try that will help keep birds away. Winery's use shinny/silver like ribbons all around their vines to ward off birds and crows. I have heard that this is very effective in spooking them off. If you can get a steel...

I was talking about this in another thread but UVA does help the psycology of your chameleon. Now heat does also effect your chams colors. Dark colors of your cham under light shows he is absorbing heat while light colors or even pale shows he is trying to reduce heat. I myself use ZooMed...

Well from the post: Does he have something to put the cham in once he arrives? I guess with the paper bag and paper towel idea he has a enclosure to keep the pet in while visiting? I don't know that but the Explorium does both. The orginal post was more then just about transport.

UVA promotes digestion and feeding. ReptiSun 5.0 does provide UVB and UVA but I also use a Basking Lamp that provides the heat and UVA enhances her psychological well-being and promotes her to hunt her food down. Over all it keeps them more active and from what I have read mellows them out to...

Well I have been looking and looking for any information about Humidity Ranges at night. During the day humitidy is between 49-61% is what I maintain at all times during the day and do so with an automated setup. But I cannot find anything about night time recommended ranges. There is...

Lamp with 4 bulbs in it. I would guess this is a Fixture that holds 2 Tubes and 2 Screw-In lights. What watts and brand are the heat lamps, brand make for the tubes that provide UVB? Distance that the fixture is from your chameleons highest climbing point? Also UVA is needed for your...

Those Exploriums come in a small that meets what you are hosing him in now. 12" x 18" and if you run a cloths rod or even a clothsline from your interier hanger hooks you can hang the Exporium from it to fit nicely in your car. I guess this will be a preference you will have to decide. I'm...

Sure if its right on top of the screen you bet. An hour of being 4 inches on top of a screen could be too much and belly exposed to such is bad aswell. If its a heat lamp its design to do just that, produce heat, most likely a bulb with reflective upper inner-coating.

Okay I will say a larger cage and when you transport try a Exo-Terra Explorium. CLICK HERE The height of your enclosure is pretty small. Something more on the lines of 36"-48" is ideal. Making the highest point he can climb above your eye level. They feel calm and more safe being above eye...

Give us details on his enclosure: Size, whats in side, lighiting.. What are you offering for feeding? The climbing upside down on the top screen is not a great idea. You should limit the height of what he climbs to get up on the top screen down so that he cannot do so. Give us the 411...

Oh well if he is shedding sure that can throw them off a bit and actually provide them with a snack. I hear they will sometimes eat their shedding. But all sounds good to me. Im sure a cricket will cross his/her path and become chow.

Offer something else like small mealworms. What size are the crickets? Too big can intimidate your cham and choke it. So PinHead/Small Crickets are advised for babies.

Nope that sounds just about right. My understanding is they won't over eat and Victoria herself will eat what she wants and ignores anything else till she wants to eat it and she is about the same length. She gets about 10-15 small crickets, 3-4 small mealworms, and 2-4 flies a day. I would...

My local store guttloads theirs with just Cricket Food and no water. But once I get them home I use Guttload Cubes that also contain water. I can always tell my crickets are guttloaded when their lower bodies are green and if you use such All-In-One Cubes to guttload you will notice that your...

Then I see nothing wrong with that setup.. Moving around can be a sign that they are looking for food so if you haven't tried or doing so now let some crickets go inside the cage. 3-4 small gutloaded ones is a good start on not too many and enough to hunt off before night fall.