can try small crickets and should let the baby geat as much as it can. they wont over eat if they know there is more food there or coming. just dont leave the crickets in there over night if u can help it. when he gets older leaving a few in there over night doesnt seem to matter.
but the...
i know a few of u know about my cage.
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i desided to take the screen off the top and put in hardware cloth and is 10x brighter than it was and my cham seems to love it more. he has a lot more color now.
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he is getting a bit big for the umbrella plants in his cage and wanted to know if...
i use clear plastic on the bottom with 2 drains and used watter sealer on all of the wood.
only have water make it to the drains when i over water the plants and mist at the same time, other than that the bottom drys out in an hour.
run the platic up the sides to make it run to the drains or...
my guy is dif, since i made him his condo he doesnt want out unless its shower time then he doesnt want back in.
he used to love coming out when he was in his teen cage. i moved him into a smaller cage not too long ago to see if he wanted to come out more.
baby cage = 18''t x 12''w x 12''d...
i would say same as everyone else has, take out the stuff in the bottom and add live plants.
and cant really tell from the pics if u have a dripper or not
everyone has something dif.
what size are u going for and will u want to be able to walk around in it.
there are a lot of dif ways u can do it, it all depends on where u live and the space u have.
will u want plants in the ground or pots.
what is the weather like where u live...
i have a hard time getting to sleep without the chirping or hearing the water from my turtle pond or frogs croaking.
it only annoys me when its just 1 being as loud as possible.
or when its 1 in my beardie cage cuz it echos.
to me they seem quiet when there are around 50 of them in the...
my veiled stoped eating the small/med crickets around that age. he would only eat the largest ones and ignore the smaller ones.
try putting in some larger crickets to see if that helps
i did the same thing with my small cage. put ice cubes in the tub sitting next to the heat lamp and my cham liked it.
always had fish and large tanks so i always have chlorine free water sitting around
i dont do that with the cage i use now cuz it can suport the lights and a dripper full...
my first dripper i made was out of a red party cup with a pin hole, then i changed it to one of the large cups u get large super worms in and put a pinhole in it.
start with a tiny hole.
put water in it to see how it drips.
make the hole bigger till it get a drip every few seconds.
refill...
not to sound like a smartass but
a wet paper towl then a dry one :P
when cleaning everything in the cage (take cham and live plants out) use 1:10 bleach:water ratio to clean it.
then wipe it all down with just water untill u cant smell bleach anymore, let it dry then put everything back in...
not sure if someone said it cuz its late wanted to put my 2 cents in. it all depends on how fast everything drys and if u have a prob with humidity or not. and if ur chamlikes getting misted and drinks when misted.
i made a dripper and i hand mist 2 times a day.
took one of the large cups u...
oh yeah, and glue some screen on the inside of the sunny d feeder so that the crickets climb high enough for him to see them.
some days my crickets dont climb up but my guy checks its every now and then to see if there is anything in it.