Not to distract from the topic, but i have a quick question. I have been gutloading my crix with cricket food from premiumcrickets.com as well as veggies. The third ingredient is fish meal. Should I stop gutloading with this?
http://www.premiumcrickets.com/Cricket-Food.html
here is the cage i just built, looks similar to yours in certain aspects. im going to be posting plans soon when i finish them if you need any of the technical stuff worked out
https://www.chameleonforums.com/finally-finished-building-enclosure-19588/
good luck!
i had bamboo in my old cage. i baked it just to be safe. it didnt seem to mold but i only had it in there for a couple months. i notied that it was very hard for my cham to grasp. it was about .75" diameter, and was very difficult for him to maneuver on
heres a cage i recently built from pine. i am going to be posting up lans soon if you are interested
https://www.chameleonforums.com/finally-finished-building-enclosure-19588/
i didnt think they looked swollen till he put up the 4th pic. check this thread out:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/veiled-chameleon-swollen-feet-9802/
if it werent for questions, this form would be pretty lame!
i think all females will lay infertile clutches eventually but not as young as 4 months. if i am wrong, someone will surely correct me
could you make some small tupperware containers that have some veggies and egg carton and 1 feedings worth of crickets in them, and then have them just dump the entire container in the cage and close the door real quick for each feeding? that doesnt sound too hard to handle for someone afraid of...
i have just been hand feeding him. i am weighing the pros and cons of putting the pet screen at the bottom. one one hand, i would be able to let him "hunt" which i love to watch (i doubt the crickets could make it to the top before he gets them) but on the other hand, it would make cleanup more...
its that stuff called "pet screen" from lowes. its not rigid at all but its pulled pretty taught. and yes, it is stapled on. i am looking to see how hard it would be to cut some grooves in the frame to mount the screen like it would be in a window or something. of course, its too late to do that...
My veiled bites me every chance he gets. It's normal. It doesn't hurt yet, hes only about 5 inches snout to vent. But it hurts more and more as he gets older. You will learn how to manipulate him so he will be more clam. Do a search, there's some videos on here on how to handle them properly...
Don't worry about it. I see where you are coming from. I was just thinking about doing it because I'm in a production tooling and design class right now and we just went over creating product documentation and I was kind of in that mindset. But you are right, there's probably not much of a...
I don't believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) a cham can be too close to UV, but I left my thermometer in Cincinnati, so I have yet to check the basking temp. I have been concerned about him climbing on the roof (which he loves to do) and being too close to the light. I think I'm going to raise...
Sorry, I didn't mean I wanted to keep the whole design a secret and charge you all for it. I was just saying if I were to put together really nice detailed plans on paper with step by steps and all that jazz I would of course want some kind of compensation. At least to cover the cost of printing...
Actually he loves climbing around on the top, in fact, that's what he does about 75% of the time hes awake! I don't think it would be detrimental, but I have only had him in there for a couple of days.