Betta_Koi
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Hi y'all
Kodak (veiled chameleon, female) finally got a new cage but she crawls to the ground and digs up her substrate in the back left corner. She's got a laying pot with plants in it so I don't know what she's doing. Here's her specs for cage, heating and eatting:
• It's a glass 18 x 18 x 36 screen top, vented front (I live in a desert environment making it nearly impossible to keep humidity with a screened cage).
• She's a potted dracaena plant, substrate planted aloe, some kind of climbing plant and a few succulents as well as a hydro ball layer seperated from the substrate by mesh.
• Midlevel temp is about 73°F and gets up to 90°F the higher she climbs.
• I spray her down 2-3 times daily since I'm saving up for a humidifier set up.
• She's got a heat light and a UVB 5.0 light on in the day and a ceramic heat emitter at night.
• She's warm enough to digest and poop regularly and she has been gravid before.
She doesn't look bloated or anything so I don't know why she's digging. She seems fascinated with one of the succulents and has completely destroyed it either by digging or just chewing on it. Should I be worried? Some of her worms fall out of the trees and she loves to hunt I'm just not sure how bad being on the ground is for her. Do I need to be giving her fruit as well as bugs? I'm still really new to this chameleon thing.
Kodak (veiled chameleon, female) finally got a new cage but she crawls to the ground and digs up her substrate in the back left corner. She's got a laying pot with plants in it so I don't know what she's doing. Here's her specs for cage, heating and eatting:
• It's a glass 18 x 18 x 36 screen top, vented front (I live in a desert environment making it nearly impossible to keep humidity with a screened cage).
• She's a potted dracaena plant, substrate planted aloe, some kind of climbing plant and a few succulents as well as a hydro ball layer seperated from the substrate by mesh.
• Midlevel temp is about 73°F and gets up to 90°F the higher she climbs.
• I spray her down 2-3 times daily since I'm saving up for a humidifier set up.
• She's got a heat light and a UVB 5.0 light on in the day and a ceramic heat emitter at night.
• She's warm enough to digest and poop regularly and she has been gravid before.
She doesn't look bloated or anything so I don't know why she's digging. She seems fascinated with one of the succulents and has completely destroyed it either by digging or just chewing on it. Should I be worried? Some of her worms fall out of the trees and she loves to hunt I'm just not sure how bad being on the ground is for her. Do I need to be giving her fruit as well as bugs? I'm still really new to this chameleon thing.
