a few ideas

Hoj

Friendly Grasshopper
so i have recently have had a bit of time to come up with two solutions to some problems i was having and thought i would share the ideas.

so my first thing is, i like to shower my chams as much as possilbe, but i have never found the bouncing the water off the wall tech, very effective and wastes alot of water.
i dont know about you guys but i have often held my hand or something up in the water stream to get it to bounce off and get a better covering of the cham.
so ive tried a bunch of stuff then it came to me the other day.
i took a fake plastic plant, the ones with the suction cup allready attached work great or you can attach a piece of plant to a suction cup. and just stuck it to the shower wall and aimed the water at it, ( with the cham in a tree in the shower as allways ) well the water hits the plant and gets the leaves bouncing and then deflects lots of water all over. i acctually had to turn the shower to under half power to keep the splashes in the tub

a plant like this will work well.
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then attach to the wall with a suction cup and aim the water at it
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i find this really helps to get maximum water coverage to your cham

the next thing i put together is for weighing my chams, i had to get a bigger scale and the one i got came with this plate for weighing postal tubes, well it fits right on the scale so i thought i would add a piece of jungle vine to it to give the chams a place to climb onto, instead of trying to put them in a bowl.

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i just drilled two holes and then ziptied the vine and then twisted it to give it extra strength and then ziptied the other end
the plate is just stitting on the scale and can be lifted of so you can use the scale like normal.
i have used it and even the chams that were the hardest to weight were a breeze with the setup

and last is just a little decoration i put together.
i took a pc of driftwood and attached to a rock base then got a flexi branch and drilled a hole into the driftwood and siliconed the flexibranch into the hole and wrapped with twine to cover silicone and secure the flexi branch,

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i like the flexbranches because you can bend them to the shape you need but they dont have much of a way to make them stand up and i like the driftwood in my cages as a middle point to build off of and support other things, so this combines them both

plz lemmie know what you think and if you have any other idea or think you will try these :):)
 
Great Ideas Hoj! The first one is exactly how I shower my chams, Although I found it harder to w/ the larger species that weigh more(ex. Panther, Suction cup would slide). I love the idea for weighing, but my scale (same one) didnt come w/ the postal tube weighing set up.. So maybe a piece of plywood cut to size w/ a branch screwed to it would work?

I've never seen those flexi branches? Where have you found them?!?!
 
Great Ideas Hoj! The first one is exactly how I shower my chams, Although I found it harder to w/ the larger species that weigh more(ex. Panther, Suction cup would slide). I love the idea for weighing, but my scale (same one) didnt come w/ the postal tube weighing set up.. So maybe a piece of plywood cut to size w/ a branch screwed to it would work?

I've never seen those flexi branches? Where have you found them?!?!

thx i put the cham on their regular umbrella tree in the bottom of the shower not on the suctioned plant, and the water bounces off the plant and all over the tree with the cham.
i think your scale idea will work just watch the weight of your pc of wood as most scales include the tear weight into the scales max weight, so if its not a big scale you may go over.

i get the sticks online they are made by a company called aquarium systems, pm if you like i can tell you the site i order from ;)
 
Nice Hoj! I just love the scale idea, mine are always climbing out of the bowl and it takes me multiple times to get an accurate measurement. Oh yeah... And I noticed that you don't have to spend a lot of $$$ on your hair but it looks like you do :D!
 
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