I have a one year old veiled male and i want another way to fee him than crickets. I want to have a dubia roach colony but know almost nothing about them. I want to know ideally how many adult male and how many adult females would i need to start a colony to feed my cham? also what do i cage...
Chameleon Info:
*I have a male, Veiled cham who is 10 months old that has only been in my care for 2 weeks.
* i have only handled it once and that was to add some branches inside the cage.
* I feed him 6-8 large crickets a day and he devours them. I have not started gut loading or dusting...
my house only gets down to 70 degrees at night so i will try turning off the night light and see if that gets him back to normal coloration. one more observation is that he gets lighter in color as he gets lower in the enclosure. when at the middle to the bottom he is his usual colorful self...
It is that kind of light but it is by ripti glo. is it just that brand that causes eye problems or the incandescent light bulbs. Also is 10.0 to much for a veiled? Also he started shedding at the same time that he started turning black.
i will drop the night light and see if that solves the problem. i will also try to down the wattage of the spot light to see if that helps. i am using the incandescent 10.0 UVB bulb. It is what was recommended to me. Is that to much?
thanks for the quick replies. Here is a more complete list of details.
Chameleon Info:
*I have a male, Veiled cham who is 10 months old that has only been in my care for 2 weeks.
* i have only handled it once and that was to add some branches inside the cage.
* I feed him 6-8 large...
I have a veiled chameleon that is almost a year old and I just got him a week ago. He is turning very dark colors almost black and stays so for long periods of time without any stressful situations. what could be causing this coloration?