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I have two questions regarding basic husbandry:
1. Cup feeding. In another thread (which I don't want to "hijack") I read this story: "Those worms [hornworms] can hold on to nearly anything like Velcro. My mistake for not cup feeding him. Anyway instead of the worm coming to Atlas when he shot it....the damn worm held on and it forced Atlas to come to it. His tongue suffered an injury as a result."
My question is, what does the term "cup feeding" mean? By now I thought it means putting worms or other food into a cup or a bowl, so they don't crawl all over the vivarium or dig themselves in. According to the above quotation it must mean something different. Can someone please enlighten me?
2. Humidity. I recently was at the vet's with one of my Yemen Veiled chameleons and the vet found that the animal was dehydrated and said that these chameleons should have a humidity of about 80% in their enclosures. I find this hard to achieve even in a full-glass (with mesh top) vivarium when I spray water into it until everything is wet - which I usually do twice a day. Outside of this time, the humidity in their vivs and in our home is about 40%.
On the contrary, I have read on websites of chameleon breeders (see the first one that come up on Google when you type in "chameleon breeding") that Yemen chams thrive best in full-mesh vivariums at normal room temperature, plus a basking lamp and water spraying at least once a day. I have my adult male in one of those large full-mesh vivariums and transfer him into the smaller glass viv only for the "moisture treatment" at least every second day for half an hour or so. When I visited an experienced breeder to pick up my last two veilded chams, he had a separate room for them which had a very high humidity and was quite warm - I would say about 25-30 C. It felt like in a jungle rather than in a desert where our veilded chams come from. So what is the right humidity for them?
1. Cup feeding. In another thread (which I don't want to "hijack") I read this story: "Those worms [hornworms] can hold on to nearly anything like Velcro. My mistake for not cup feeding him. Anyway instead of the worm coming to Atlas when he shot it....the damn worm held on and it forced Atlas to come to it. His tongue suffered an injury as a result."
My question is, what does the term "cup feeding" mean? By now I thought it means putting worms or other food into a cup or a bowl, so they don't crawl all over the vivarium or dig themselves in. According to the above quotation it must mean something different. Can someone please enlighten me?
2. Humidity. I recently was at the vet's with one of my Yemen Veiled chameleons and the vet found that the animal was dehydrated and said that these chameleons should have a humidity of about 80% in their enclosures. I find this hard to achieve even in a full-glass (with mesh top) vivarium when I spray water into it until everything is wet - which I usually do twice a day. Outside of this time, the humidity in their vivs and in our home is about 40%.
On the contrary, I have read on websites of chameleon breeders (see the first one that come up on Google when you type in "chameleon breeding") that Yemen chams thrive best in full-mesh vivariums at normal room temperature, plus a basking lamp and water spraying at least once a day. I have my adult male in one of those large full-mesh vivariums and transfer him into the smaller glass viv only for the "moisture treatment" at least every second day for half an hour or so. When I visited an experienced breeder to pick up my last two veilded chams, he had a separate room for them which had a very high humidity and was quite warm - I would say about 25-30 C. It felt like in a jungle rather than in a desert where our veilded chams come from. So what is the right humidity for them?
