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The temps sound right except for the high 90's in her cage. I would either raise the lights or just get a smaller wattage bulb for on her cage to bring that down a bit, but you definitely don't want to remove the UVB and basking light just get the right temps. Make sure you keep an eye on the...

I just wrapped one side and the back of mine with a shower curtain liner, didn't think of the trash bag idea. With other materials, like tubing for misters and such they do say to use the black so that algae and mold don't grow, so that might work. I plan to just keep an eye on mine and if I...

Why did you get light bulb for desert species when chameleons are tropical? Pretty much everyone puts the lights on top of the cage, and its not a bad idea to raise them a bit just to be safe especially as your veiled grows and his casque gets taller they have a tendency to get too close to the...

At my petco they actually keep it by the turtle supplies and it even has a picture of a veiled chameleon and turtle on the bottle; called ReptiSafe.

Dust the feeders at least every other feeding with the calcium (no D3) and then with D3 at twice a month and vitamins twice a month is what you will see most people do. The crickets will only last a few hours or so in the plastic bag. YOu will also need to get other types of feeders so your...

They should be pretty small. There are a lot of ways to gutload the feeders, search on the forums for gutloading and you should get a lot of results.

You should definitely add more branches for him to climb on.

I am hopefully going to go to that show as well. You do not need a nightlight for them, they need to cool down at night. As for feeding, I would ask the breeder that you get yours from as to what schedule the chameleon has already been on and then go from there.

As far as I am aware that is not normal and chameleons are not known for going to water sources like that. I will say that just because you spray the cage doesn't mean that he is drinking unless you see him doing it or his poop is not dry and the urate part is white and not yellow or orange.

You can definitely get sticks from outside but make sure you clean them with a bleach water solution or bake them to kill off any outside bugs and such. I bake mine at 350 for about an hour or so. That is definitely cheaper than buying sticks, although my setup also has dowels bought from the...

The crickets will depend on how many you are planning to buy and keep at any given time. I keep about 50-80 at any given time, and I get mine from petco, and I don't usually have very many that die before I feed them to my reptiles. I did not have good luck getting my crickets online, way over...

You can't act scared, they will pick up on that and use it to their advantage. You might be scaring him more by picking him up when he's not paying attention.

At night they lighten up because the UVB light has gone off and that is what they use to show off their colors. Mine turns practically white at night.

Also, mealworms are the least nutritional out of all the worm types. Silk are the best, but butter or hornworms are good as well. In my opinion he also needs more branches to climb around on throughout the cage. You may want to take a look at the dragon ledges from dragonstrand.com, I added...

Don't go solely based on price, do a lot of research first. Make sure you can care for them, it is not a cheap endeavor for set up alone. Also, make sure you research the person/place you are intending on getting the chameleon from. I have never heard of any chameleons themselves to avoid, all...

I talk to mine throughout the day and I bring him out and let him roam around at least every other day depending on my schedule. I may be a little biased though because my GusGus has never not liked to come out and visit.

I second the dragon ledges comment, I love mine.

Crested Gecko I think would work.

You will probably only need one basking light so that the cage doesn't get to warm since he also needs to have areas to get out of the heat. I would look at the package of the halogen lamps to see if they show the heat gradient compared to the distance from the bulb then compare that to the care...

I have a tupperware container under the vines that my dripper drips on with some screen hot glued to it to collect the water. Depending on the cage you could also check out Dragonstrand.com, they have some drainage trays that may work.