I unfortunately live 100 miles away from the closest place that sells plants that can go in my enclosure, and I don’t even think that had monsteras when I last looked. Don’t have too many options I do realize it was a bit more spendy but I would have spent as much on gas as this plant I got lol.
Do I have to wash plants off that come from the bio dude or are they ready to go right out of the box? Also Mr. Chameleonaire began shedding today, feast your eyes on this flaky reptile.
Honestly love this dude even if he only tolerates my existence. Here’s him catching some uvb rays before bed. I hope all you guys are having a good week so far!
I think I’m going to buy some of those terracotta clay balls for the bottom of my next one and others in the future, never used them before but heard good stuff about them.
My money tree was the perfect water catcher and I just noticed the wood is all soft, root rot. I got a new centerpiece plant on the way now though, a monsters deliciosa. I’ve learned so much about plants in the last few months it’s amazing.
I bought a few and they grew way too big too fast so I haven’t gotten another yet. Last I looked for silk worms lots of places were sold out. Do you recommend a website?
Update with Mr. Chameleonaire, after a few weeks my bsfl finally turned into the flies and he absolutely frickin loves them lol. He’s been eating like a champ and I’m finally getting him used to Dubia roaches. I now have a consistent mix of bugs - crickets, bsfl/and flies now, and dubia roaches...
It could possibly be a little too high? No for sure way to tell without the solar meter, I’ve never used the uvb strip thing. I’m fairly new to chameleon keeping myself so maybe someone else has some better info to give you.
I think you can reference this picture since the T5 5.0 and the 6% are very similar, you can raise it off the top about 6 inches if his basking branch is about the same distance from the screen. If it is directly on the screen then you would want your basking branch even lower due to the uvb...
Bill strand recommends to have a heat lamp on until it starts raising ambients temperatures inside of the enclosure. On colder days here I will have it on all day but sometimes I’ll turn it off if the back corner of my house heats up in the afternoon so I can keep his temp gradient 70-80.
Do you have a solar meter 6.5? It’s pricey but 100% worth it to get so you can make positive that he is getting the UVB he needs. Surprisingly no name brand pet store near me had any so I had to order mine on Amazon. Super cute little guy you got there.