Cats and Chameleons?

[Chrisseh]

I like the Little Dipper. I would rather use something I can buy and is proven to work over something that I could mess up making. Do you guys use/like electronic misters?

I still want to keep her a glass enclosure, at least until spring. Just to acclimate her to the cats and the cats to her. I want her enclosure to be large, so I don't want to rush into something small that we both hate.

I haven't picked live plants yet. I was going to ask what I should use and how to prepare them.

How long should I have the set up before I bring her home?

p.s. I will move her when she has a clutch. I doubt I will breed her.

 

[Julirs]

Aqauriums are for fish, some other lizards, but not chameleons. Why output the money for something so wrong? An aluminum screen cage will keep out cats.
Good live plants are Ficus, Schefflera, and Pothos. Fill a bucket with dish-soapy water, swirl the leaves around in them, and then rinse well, repeat. Then either cover the soil in the pot with large enough river-type rocks to keep the cham from eating soil filled with fertilizers and perlite, or repot in organic soil. Set the cage up, put in your live plants and vine, top with a Zoomed Reptisun 5.0 linear tube UVB (NO compacts), a clamp lamp with a 60-75Watt household bulb or whatever gets your temps to where they need to be, and you are good to bring your cham home. Aqauriums do not provide the vertical height that chameleons need, as you noted she likes to climb to the top of people heads.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Again, please read:

http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/

A 16x16x30 screen enclosure will be fine for her, for her whole life.

If you pay attention to what she REALLY needs, you could make a great home for her and rescue her from the very stressful environment of the pet store.

If you just recreate the pet store environment at home then (in my opinion) you are perpetuating the cruelty and she won't live to be too old.

As a published keeper once said: "Anyone can keep a veiled chameleon alive for a year ... that's about how long it takes to kill one."

Females can live to be 7+ years old with proper care.

-Brad

 

[Grizz]

i have a manx, it doesnt seem to bother my cham. i also have a green iguana, it does bother him. i had to move him out of my reptile room because he was constantly stressed. i also got him from petsmart, no offence but he was full of parasites. small glass aquariums are breeding places for most of them. he is much happier in his screen enclosure. there are alot of people that do the aquarium thing. mostly in regions where temp is realy hard to maintain like the UK.

 

[SaZzY]

I live in the UK and would never put my chameleon in a glass tank as i am aware of the dangers. I use my central heating and the basking the light to maintain my chameleons temps. So what if my gas bill is high. Its my chameleon that matters.