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I wouldn't worry too much about poking holes. I did, it was fairly easy. I set mine up in the upper right hand corner. I used a scalpel (I teach science) but I think an exact-o knife would work well too. MistKing sells a plastic reinforced corner, but I was not willing to wait for one so I made...

They are actually climbing up the mister tubing and/or the walls, so that is not really an option. But if I use a repellent outside of the cage, the only things that can eat it is ants. My feeders are kept in a separate location.

I wanted to know if someone uses this product and how safe it is for their Chams. I have a serious ant problem. They keep sneaking in to eat cham debris. Seemingly overnight. They are trying to colonize in my plants. I need to find a repellent that works. (Hawaii is not always paradise)

Let me add that I'm in Hawaii... Humidity ranges from 50-70. Temps in cage range from 82 (top) to 78 (bottom).

I just set up my mist king. Its beautiful. But my chameleon still doesn't like the water. But she should like it more then my invasive spray bottle. So what schedule should I set up? I teach middle school, and the chameleon is in my classroom. So I bought the mist king for the over the weekend...

So this morning I fed my chameleon as normal: 6 large crickets, dusted calcium w/o D3, into a cup w/ a Popsicle stick so they can escape, roam, and be hunted down. But I look over and this happened.... Somehow a cricket fell on top of my chameleon! And my chameleon was looking at her butt...

Good to know! The soil is covered with large rocks... but the cricket can get under them. I scooped the soil and didn't see any eggs... I'll keep and eye out for pin heads. Thanks!

The soil might not be deep, the the area of the pot is large... and she's roaming... I'll do what I can :(

I missed this post. Here is a picture. She seems to be gaping less. She just likes to roam, and I catch her gaping every once and awhile.

So I recently found that my chameleon likes to hunt down her crickets. So I've been setting them free instead of putting them in a cup. She usually eats them within 10 minutes. Today apparently, she either didn't notice, or is full and is letting a female cricket roam free. Well to my luck, the...

My temperature are a couple aquarium stickers stuck to the top and the bottom of the cage. I'll put some standard thermometers out to read the temp and see if that's my issue (which will make me feel dumb, because I should have thought of that right away). She was wild caught, but I bought her...

Current Issue - My female Jackson is doing a lot more gaping and roaming around the cage then before. She seems to prefer to hang out on the mesh sides rather than among the cover and is almost constantly gaping. But the temperatures in her cage have not changed, and if anything are lower (heat...

Thanks! I will try this... right now she leaves none alive! I feed her 6 every other day.

I normally feed my Jackson from a small cup in her cage. That way I know when she eats, how much she eats and I don't leave crickets in the cage overnight. Today was the first day I've ever seen her hit the outside of the cup when attempting to catch a cricket (from below the cup). I've had her...

1/19/16 - First Shed of the Year

Photographs of my classroom pet, Maka-Nui

When I was working on draining water from the water collecting container today I noticed a very thin, but long, red worm. I immediately thought parasite. But its not on poop, or around poop that falls in the water. It is aquatic and trying desperately to crawl to a wet spot. Its a very mobile...

Thanks! I think I'll need to re-pot the plant... honestly its getting a little too tall for the cage anyway... I might need a new one... the soil mites appear to be spring tails and do not venture above the river rocks. I have a system of containers set up to catch the drainage, and lift the...

There is no way the soil will dry with my dripper, and I want to keep the plant in there with the chameleon. Do you think adding sand will work? I could do that easily. And they're not fly larvae... they are defiantly soil mites... they move really fast and are not worms.

I have a potted hibiscus. Previously is was getting way to much water. I have fixed that, it now drains easily. However recently I removed the river rocks to given them a quick rinse (river rocks to cover soil) and I noticed that the soil is still staying very damp. The hibiscus doesn't mind...