"Chameleon proof"

[snipeusa14]

iv seen people say you need to chameleon proof the room if you free range iv set up a temperary freerange for my chams when im home and 2 of them keep going to the bottum of the pot and "jumping/sliding" off the pot onto the floor.I dont want them wondering off on the cold floor i dont have any lights yet but the free range is next to a class door where its full of sun/heat/UVB.

So how can i stop them from going down to the floor

 

[jannb]

First, UVB can not pass through glass so in order to get any UV you'd have to open windows and a liitle UVB could pass through the screens.

Second, you can never stop a chameon from getting off the tree and checking everything out. That's why you need to make sure the room where you have the FR is safe for your cham and close the door when you are not watching him. Also be very careful when you open the door because he could be right behind the door. They often are behind the door trying to get out of the room to check out out the rest of the house.

Providing lights does help them to stay in their trees better because they like to bask and will sit there for a while to bask.

 

[EvilLost]

iv seen people say you need to chameleon proof the room if you free range iv set up a temperary freerange for my chams when im home and 2 of them keep going to the bottum of the pot and "jumping/sliding" off the pot onto the floor.I dont want them wondering off on the cold floor i dont have any lights yet but the free range is next to a class door where its full of sun/heat/UVB.

So how can i stop them from going down to the floor

1) UVB does not pass through glass. Where is their UVB?
2) Even next to glass, they are most DEFINITELY too cold without a basking spot. Where is their temperature gradient?
3) How old is your cham? what kind of cham do you have? that picture you supplied is just a plant...its not a free-range. you can NOT keep 2 of them together period (unless they are babies or pygmy leafs, and even then can't have 2 males together). EDIT: The plant is larger than I thought, but I would still not call it a "free-range" as it is lacking virtually every other ingredient for chameleon care.
4) How do you give them water?
5) How do you feed them?
6) Completely unrelated but based on the lack of everything above I'm just going to throw this out there so you are aware.... do you have supplements? (vit D3+calc, calcium alone, AND multivitamin; 3 different supplements).

Chameleons only leave their free-range if they are lacking something.

 

[AtAllCost]

Chameleons only leave their free-range if they are lacking something

yeaa, thats not true man sometimes they just get curious

 

[snipeusa14]

i only have ONE chameleon on there now that will be a perm free range hes a Tamatave panther 19 months old and i have set up a basking light on one side of the free range(will be adding more to it in the future) im still trying to find ut a way to hang the uvb tube ontop of the "free range

would cieling hooks work or should i make a frame around it and hang it from there?

i spray him 3-4 times a day sometimes he drinks right out the spray bottle
and hes hand/cup fed crix and horned worms.


EDIT: iv had this cham sence jan of this year and is doin fine! all calcium and supliments:mutivitamins 1-2 a month calcium with D3 2 times a month ad rest with reg calcium every feeding

 

[EvilLost]

yeaa, thats not true man sometimes they just get curious

@AtAllCost: yea you are right. However, I would be willing to guess that as long as you keep the free-range sufficiently large for the size of your chameleon, you could "satisfy" the "curiosity need" as well.

I'll admit my statement was an over-generalization though...


@snipeusa14: I've seen many use ceiling hooks but for me they are too ugly to use. What I did in my original free range was clip the heat bulb to my blinds which were next to, but out of range, of his free-range. Similarly, my UVB bulb is literally standing on its side on a table a few inches away. Both have worked perfectly fine but if you do the UVB bulb thing, please realize that a UVB bulb must be within 6-12 inches to properly transmit UVB. Beyond that you are losing too much (I don't know how much truth there is to that statement but I have seen it around quite often and I believe it is written on the boxes of the 5.0 UVBs as well).


EDIT: You said that you are hand/cup feeding him. Have you realized him coming down at times when he is hungry? I also cup/hand feed Clark and I have noticed SEVERAL instances when he comes down that he is simply hungry (even though he is well aware of where his cup is and does regularly go to it). In these cases, if I just hand feed him a cricket or two right then and put him back in his tree, he is content all of a sudden. It is almost like he has a quarrel with his cup :x