Critique my cage setup

[cushcameleon]

Ok, this is about the fourth time I have redone my cage this week. Tell me what you think. Also, some of the pictures do not do the cage justice (i.e. the light looks to close, which it isnt), there are also several climbing vines running in and out of the plants which do not show up well in the pictures and finally nearly all the cage is consumed by the live plants (despite what it looks like in the picture.

 

[Dean Pulcini]

What kind of light is that ?

 

[codiwatkins]

looks good except Where is your Uv light?? and dripper???

 

[Malicious]

Cage looks pretty good. I personally would ditch the carpet in the bottom, and soon enough I'm sure you will. It will get wet, stink and grow bacteria and or mold. The sandblasted grapevine could use some fake leaved vines wraped around it as well it looks to deserty.

Here is one of my panther cages:




Good luck mate!

-Jay

 

[cushcameleon]

The dripper is that Alta Dena cottage cheese container, I made a homemade drop out of it by using air house and a value. The bulb is a powersun bulb, it provides heat, UVA and UVB all in one.

 

[AJA]

If you insist on keeping the fake grass carpet thing, have them cut to size and change out every day. Take the 'used' one and soak it in a 5% bleach, otherwise you can use papertowels or just wipe out every day. I liked it .

 

[Dean Pulcini]

No way you should be using a power sun in that small cage and definitely not for a montane species.

 

[CHAMpion]

I'm not particularly familiar with the Powersun bulbs but any type of compact UV bulb is harmful to your Chameleons eyes. Not only that but chams need to regulate how much D3 they intake so usually you will see your cham sitting under the UVB bulb for a while just to get his UVB rays. You are also running a risk of overdosing on D3 because the cham will be forced to receive the UVB rays when he just wants to warm up.

Also you should set up some sort of drainage system instead of the repti carpet it's just going to get wet and become more a nuisance then anything. With your style cage most people drills holes in the bottom and have some sort of bucket to catch all the water.

I's also recommend a bigger dripper because you want it to be going must of the day. I just take a 64oz Big Burp cup from Buckey's (a gas station here) and put a valve in it and it usually can drip at one drip a second for upwards toward 6-7 hours

My 2 cents

 

[merumontanus]

The mercury vapor bulb, as others have mentioned, will provide an excessive amount of heat & UVB radiation. Go for a less expensive, low-wattage (-50w), non-UV, incandescent bulb with a good color spectrum and add a single fluorescent bulb such as a Reptisun 5.0, which provides little heat (giving you a much better thermal gradient), as well as an appropriate LUX and, most importantly, acceptable levels of UVB and UVA which can then be regulated by adding enough plants in the enclosure to allow for UV regulation.

Cheers,

Fabián

 

[cushcameleon]

The mercury vapor bulb, as others have mentioned, will provide an excessive amount of heat & UVB radiation. Go for a less expensive, low-wattage (-50w), non-UV, incandescent bulb with a good color spectrum and add a single fluorescent bulb such as a Reptisun 5.0, which provides little heat (giving you a much better thermal gradient), as well as an appropriate LUX and, most importantly, acceptable levels of UVB and UVA which can then be regulated by adding enough plants in the enclosure to allow for UV regulation.

Cheers,

Fabián

Fabian these pictures of my cage setup are not up to date. I have redone the whole thing. Look at the photobucket pictures in this link https://www.chameleonforums.com/cage-critique-24936/.

 

[Jakedn]

Cage looks pretty good. I personally would ditch the carpet in the bottom, and soon enough I'm sure you will. It will get wet, stink and grow bacteria and or mold. The sandblasted grapevine could use some fake leaved vines wraped around it as well it looks to deserty.

Here is one of my panther cages:




Good luck mate!

-Jay

Are those gardenias I see in the cage? I've actually been wondering if those were okay to put in with a chameleon.

 

[merumontanus]

Fabian these pictures of my cage setup are not up to date. I have redone the whole thing. Look at the photobucket pictures in this link https://www.chameleonforums.com/cage-critique-24936/.

Ha, looks like another bot bumped your thread as I saw it on the main page-- gotta remember to double check the date!

The new cage looks fantastic, by the way. Good luck with the cham.

Cheers,

Fabián

 

[Minihuey]

looks pretty damn cool to me.

 

[cushcameleon]

looks pretty damn cool to me.

Check out the photobucket pictures on my post in this thread https://www.chameleonforums.com/cage-critique-24936/. The cage looks even better now