Dose this chameleon cage look fine
- Thread starter landon.doering
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Looking at the size of your chameleon, I’d add a few thinner branches as well.
Also worried that it can get under the basking light and maybe burn itself. Have you tested the warmth at the closest spot that it can get to the light by placing your own hand as close to the light as you can under the screen, palm down and seeing if you want to move your hand away?
Also worried that it can get under the basking light and maybe burn itself. Have you tested the warmth at the closest spot that it can get to the light by placing your own hand as close to the light as you can under the screen, palm down and seeing if you want to move your hand away?
Steve A
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Looks like you're off to a good start!
I would add a large plant in the very center. Provide him a little more coverage and kind of fill out that space some more. I would add more sticks in general. And since you've already built a stick frame... I would actually add more sticks within that frame to kind of cover the outside screen on the sides. Just to promote climbing those sticks instead of the screen.
It is perfectly normal for them to climb the screen. But it's certainly better for them to climb branches instead if they're available! You could just space branches out a few inches or so and make ladders.
landon.doering
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Can’t right now he is sitting on the basking branch and I don’t want to scare him
landon.doering
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The branch directly under the uvb light is 17 in under and the uvb bulb sits 1 1/2 inches above the enclosure
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I would do it sooner rather than later because if the light is too close and he decides to hang upside down on the screen, he could burn his toes or belly.
landon.doering
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The screen is pretty hot but I ordered some hooks to make the heat lamp sit higher and they should be here later today
Steve A
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This may or may not work for you, but what I do is, I wait until Spike is "done for the day", meaning he goes to his resting spot where he will eventually sleep once lights are off. Once he's there, I add new branches (or remove branches I don't want in there anymore). It's a slight disturbance, but as long as you aren't really working too too close to him it should be fine during this time period.
Spike kinda just looks curious more than anything when I do this
landon.doering
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I wold have to remove the wood from under the uvb for now
So this is way too far away. With a T5HO fixture and a 5.0 bulb your looking for a total distance of 8-9 inches. If baby is screen climbing the top you have to lift the fixture 4 inches off the top and then add in a branch 5 inches below the screen. This puts total distance to the branch at 9 inches for a 3 UVI and then at the screen they are in the max UVI level of roughly a 6UVI.
At the current distance of 17 the baby would get no UVB at the branch and if on screen would be blasted by extremely high UVI levels which are far higher than they would ever see in their natural environment. So baby would develop MBD if they are not getting UVB and start declining. Or have risks of over exposure levels being so close.
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