I heard that any other fake vines besides flukers are bad so I will be getting those. Most people recommend real branches but I don't have the supplies to sterilize branches even if I found one suitable outside which is very unlikely where I am. Any links to branches or vines i can use and buy will be very helpful! thank you.
Branches and vines.
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Thank you! So don't use grapewood, ghostwood, manzanita, and oak in the chameleon enclosure? I just want to make sure this what your saying. Also how would I make it so he can actually climb the wood because wouldn't they all just be sitting on the ground?
Do you have trees around you? You can use almost any branches as long as they are not sap producing like pine, cedar, and eucalyptus. But almost everything else is perfectly fine. As far as sanitizing all you really need to do is wash them down with dawn soap and hot water to remove fecal and insects. Then rinse extremely well and let them dry out.
The problem is I live in a area we're im only surrounded by pines and cedar. It's kind of ironic.
Another way to get your hands on other types.... Check your local plant nursery's. When they have trees that die off they normally toss them or reduce the prices to next to nothing. Even local tree trimming companies, if you contact them and let them know what your needing most are happy to give you what they cut.
Mountain Dragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
I’m not sure but it looks like a Dracaena
I managed to find a couple branches but I don't have any dawn soap, any alternatives?
Mountain Dragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
Do you have method soap (l think it’s a target brand)
I use dawn and that is the one most of us will use... The safe for ducks and washes off fully thing.
I do. I will have to use that then
Mountain Dragon
Chameleon Enthusiast
I’m pretty sure it says food safe just read it once again I have it and 90% sure it said food safe
MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
That is a mass cane, which is a dracanae I believe and pothos planted on the bottom. Both are safe.
Smell them... IF they are cedar your going to smell it. And you do not want to use it. when it gets wet your going to really smell it. Would not advice using it in a cham cage due to this.
Klyde O'Scope
Chameleon Enthusiast
+1 Mass Cane ( Draceana fragrans Massaengea ). The plant at the bottom is either pothos ( Epipremnum aureum ) or a philodendron ( Philodendron hederaceum ).
Know your plants: how to tell the difference between a philodendron and a pothos
I have all three in my enclosure; cham makes use of all of them.
