We are considering getting another baby veiled chameleon, as Corey's presence has been greatly missed, and I was wondering if you guys could either help me, or send me in the right direction to learn about the proper set up. I have found much conflicting advice by just searching the web. Here's the set up that we had:
1) A ten gallon aquarium (with a screen top), but that was only intended to be used while she was young and small.
2) A UVA/B 60 watt light (left on for 12 hours), changed every 3 months.
3) A ceramic heating lamp, left on 24 hours a day
4) two thermometers, the cool side reads at 75*, and the hot end will now read 90*. At night it reads about 80* on the warm side.
5) The bottom is lined with indoor/outdoor carpeting ... you know that plastic fake grassish green kind, so that it could be easily clean regularly.
6) There are store bought branches ... two that criss cross, and one other one. There is also a fake bushy thing that hangs down from the side of the tank. There was anothe fake bush, and a flat rock in one corner. She also had a bowl of reptile sand.
7) I used a water bottle with holes in it to drip the water down one log and into a water dish at the bottom.
8) We used a spray bottle to mist the cage about 4 times a day.
9) Fed gut loaded crickets (gut loaded with a mixture of dog food and flunkers orange gut load), and meal worms. (Corey at 10 crickets twice a day and 10 meal worms once a day ... is that a good amount?)
I'd like to include some live plants in my cage and was wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a website that sells chameleon safe plants without pesticides.
Thanks for your help everyone!
1) A ten gallon aquarium (with a screen top), but that was only intended to be used while she was young and small.
2) A UVA/B 60 watt light (left on for 12 hours), changed every 3 months.
3) A ceramic heating lamp, left on 24 hours a day
4) two thermometers, the cool side reads at 75*, and the hot end will now read 90*. At night it reads about 80* on the warm side.
5) The bottom is lined with indoor/outdoor carpeting ... you know that plastic fake grassish green kind, so that it could be easily clean regularly.
6) There are store bought branches ... two that criss cross, and one other one. There is also a fake bushy thing that hangs down from the side of the tank. There was anothe fake bush, and a flat rock in one corner. She also had a bowl of reptile sand.
7) I used a water bottle with holes in it to drip the water down one log and into a water dish at the bottom.
8) We used a spray bottle to mist the cage about 4 times a day.
9) Fed gut loaded crickets (gut loaded with a mixture of dog food and flunkers orange gut load), and meal worms. (Corey at 10 crickets twice a day and 10 meal worms once a day ... is that a good amount?)
I'd like to include some live plants in my cage and was wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a website that sells chameleon safe plants without pesticides.
Thanks for your help everyone!