Cares of a babies Jacksons :

[Carlos Morales]

hi, about 3 months ago i bought a jackson female shes like 1 year, 6 months old, and yesterday she had babies, i didnt know she was pregnant , so when i came home and i found 5 little chameleons , so please i need to know how to take care of them. she had 5, but 2 of them died, now there are 2 males and 1 female. i gave them only fruits flys to eat , so this is the 2nd day with them, i hope you can help me

Thanks

 

[Rango3d]

what exactly do you need help on?
food? Lighting? cage? watering?

 

[Lovereps]

First, separate them from mom. She will eat them if you don't.
I've successfully raised many babies in a glass terrarium NOT an aquarium.
This is the one I've used. It is 18' wide 18" deep and 24" tall: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OAYXTK/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I put in plants, line the bottom with paper towels for easy cleaning and stuck about 30 bamboo shish kabob skewers into the foam background to enable the babies to move about easily and as horizontal perches for basking.
Use an already used Reptisun 5.0 bulb to provide the UV and heat. No basking lamp needed in this setup.
Use a long tube bulb rather than a coil type compact one.
Normal room temps in the 70s are good and avoid drafty areas (like ac outputs, fans, etc.) or hotter areas of the house or window areas where the temps or humidity will get too high/low.
You could use a new Reptisun 2.0 instead if you don't have an old bulb.
Babies need somewhat cooler temps than the older chams do.
You absolutely must mist the babies several times each day . 3 times each day was typically what I did and you have to mist for several minutes to ensure that they actually drink.
I used a very fine mist from a Home Depot brand spray bottle.
Food should be present at all times.
An accurate humidity and temperature gauge is essential.
Keep the enclosure above 60% humidity without keeping it wet all the time.
When feeding them fruit flies--as you should for the first month--you can stick a piece or fruit onto 1 or 2 skewers, so the flies are eating something--and make easier targets hanging around the fruit.
Josh's Frogs has excellent 32 ounce producing Hydei FF cultures and even 3 chams will eat a great number of flightless fruit flies.
Their FF medium is nutritious, so the flies provide good nutrition.
After a month or so, I added extra small Phoenix worms, tiny superworms and extremely small crickets to their diet but fruit flies were a staple for a few months.
Other people have done things differently but this has worked very well for me.