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My recommendation is to learn and keep chams first, then worry about breeding. If you had issues the first time, then the best thing is to work on keeping 1+ chams going for 1+ years (for the health of the cham you want the females to be at least 1 year old before breeding anyway). While...

That is a really good link. My only concern would be the kind of screen being used because crix can eat through some kinds of screen. The link addresses that issue. Let me know how it goes! I'd be interested to know myself!

Roaches are a bit of a problem for me in FL. Every shop I've gone to say they can't sell roaches. I haven't tried buying roaches online yet though (I have spoken with some suppliers already and some will, some won't ship). The other thing with the roaches are the size. Bob is still not too...

Howdy, I have about a 3-4 month old veiled. He is doing really good from everything I've seen (I saw him eat for the first time today! I know from his poop he has been eating, just never saw it until today!). So, right now all he is eating are small to med crix (dusted). I've tried...

From my research Chameleons will bask under a visible light, so even though you have a basking spot, it isn't visible light if it is a night bulb (I don't think). I can't tell from the pictures if male or female. Look at the feet of the back legs. If you see a small spir there, it is a...

What I did was buy a piece of 1/4" plywood 2'x4' for the bottom for strength, plus an 1/8" finished board for the top. I then added the 2x2 boards around the top of that. Once I had the 2x2's attached to the plywood I measured from the INSIDE of the 2x2's side to side and top to bottom (once...

Let me tell you a secret. It really isn't that hard to make stuff. I would always think I couldn't do something until I tried and found that it really isn't that bad. Is it the quality of those who do it for a living? Heck no, but it works for me! All you REALLY need is a hand saw (what...

If you have a small spir on the back of the feet of the back legs pointing to the tail then it is a male cham. No spir and it is a female. It isn't very big, but it is obvious. Only males have this spir. You can tell this from a very young age (like birth).

Well, after keeping my cham for the last month or so I have come to realize that I need a MUCH better way to drain my cage... I wasn't really using anything and it was creating a big giant mess. So, after seeing what some others have done, I "borrowed" a couple ideas and came up with the...

The top you will see some cardboard. That creates a seal to keep the crix in.

I still have a bit more to add, but this is a start!

I used a bit for drilling a hole for a door knob to create this. I attached screen under the hole to prevent escapes.

Another view of bottom

Changing the floor design to include an epoxy bottom and a hole to drain through.

I would like to echo this. When I first build my cage (yours looks a lot better than mine!) I didn't realize just HOW MUCH WATER was needed to keep the cham happy. I'm in the process now of re-doing the bottom and I think this will work much better. I totally forgot to take step-by-step...

Granted, I made my own cage, so I don't know what you are trying to attach to... but I screwed in eye hooks on the inside 2x2 top posts and then ran a thick twine between the 2 in order to hang my pothos. This serves not only to hold the pothos, but as a high perch as well!

I would think that it is much like genetics. Mating two reds would have a better chance of producing a red but there is most likely a chance for a resesive gene that could produce a blue (if both pairs have the resesive blue gene). The chance of a blue offspring would be less than a red...

Well, if it is a reflective material that might not be the best thing for a chameleon. I believe I understand the concept where he wouldn't see a reflection, but there could still be bright spots of light bouncing back and I wouldn't think that would be good at all.

Hard shells can be difficult to digest and cause compaction. I would think it would really depend on how "hard" the shell is. For instance, some people would say that meal worms have shells that are too hard and can cause this, so you only want to feed them to chams every so often as a treat...