I do not have my chameleon yet, I cannot get him until summer as I live in a no-pet dorm. I am, however getting everything I need before. I have all these items in a shopping cart ready to order, which I'll most likely do tomorrow morning. I'll have a 24x24x48 reptibreeze, however I might only use part of it (by partitioning some of it off) depending on how small/young I buy my cham. I plan on using pothos throughout the entire cage as I love the way it looks and it seems fairly easy to keep alive. I was curious as to the lifespan of a Petco/Petsmart cricket after you buy them if you feed and water them in order to get some kind of idea of how often I'll be visiting the petshop. I plan on misting in the morning, filling up my big dripper, then coming back early afternoon, feeding and misting again, then misting in the evening a few hours before lights out. Speaking of lights, I have a Zoo Med Tropical UVB & Heat Lighting Kit : Combo Light that has housing for 2 lights. I will replace the heat bulb with a UVA light so both UVA and UVB are running at the same time, then have a third separate heat lamp(with separate housing) on stand-by if things need to be a little more toasty. Is this okay? 3 separate bulbs? With supplements, in my cart I have Rep Cal Calcium with Vitamin D3 Ultrafine Powder and Rep Cal Herptivite with Beta Carotene Multivitamin. Are these all I will need for a veiled chameleon, and how often of each should I dust his food with, I can't quite get a straight answer. Final question, where do all these people get these awesome climbing branches for their chams? They seem to perfectly fit their cage. Thanks for all the advice guys.
Could someone tell me if everything sounds straight
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brittbritt
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I searched all over the internet to find a good price on the Zoo Med open air cage and the cheapest one I found was on petmountain.com. I got the 24"x24"x48" and their price was $93.99 with free shipping. If you sign up with your email address they email you a coupon code for 10% off your order. With that my order came to $84.59. It's supposed to get here in 8 days or less.
Bomartin
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Petsmart and petco crickets died off for me fairly quickly. They usually don't feed them the best gutload so I wait two or three days for my feeders to eat my gutload (I blend Turpin greens kale orange Apple sweet potatoes and some carrots for a gutload) before feeding them off and in that span a lot of their crickets die off. I order all my crickets online now it's cheaper in the long run and usually get better feeders that way too.
For dusting I dust calcium without d3 just about every day
Calcium with d3 twice a month
Multivitamins twice a month.
I alternate the d3 and multivitamins
(So like d3 one Saturday them multivitamins the next and so on)
hkitchen
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The crickets will depend on how many you are planning to buy and keep at any given time. I keep about 50-80 at any given time, and I get mine from petco, and I don't usually have very many that die before I feed them to my reptiles. I did not have good luck getting my crickets online, way over half of a 100 order were dead when they got to me. I have the same cage you are looking at getting, check walmart.com first, they had it even cheaper than pet mountain, but they only have a few at a time and I missed out and went with pet mountain as well. I don't believe that you need the UVA light. I have a double dome that has 2 UVB bulbs to span the whole width of the cage and then a separate dome with the basking bulb. It takes more heat than you may think to heat up that size of an open air cage.
