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jannb
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BTW Welcome to the Chameleon Forums. Your lights need to be across the top of the cage and you need allot of vines and branches 8 inches or so down from the top.
You can make a homemade dripper. Take a plastic cup or bowl and poke a couple of very small holes in the bottom. Fill it with very warm water and make sure it drips very slow over a vine with leaves so your little guy can drink form the leaves. Also mist for a pretty long time. It takes awhile for them to start drinking. I would mist 3 or 4 times a day for 5 minutes or so. You will need drainage for your cage. Maybe some holes in the bottom with a bucket sitting under it to catch the water.
Branches from outside are ok from most trees. Clean them well and some member bake them in the oven. Cut the branch the size you need and thumb tacks can be use on each end to hold the branches up.
You need the Reptisun 5.0 UVB bulb like the one in the link. http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog...por-bulbs/-/zoo-med-24-repti-sun-50-uvb-bulb/ It has to be the tube style. A must to keep you guy from having MBD. How will you measuring the heat and humidity? This will be very important. At night he needs to be dark, no light, and cool so he can rest. He should be 10 degrees cooler at night than in the daytime but not below 65.
The feeders have to be "lightly" dusted with 3 kinds of supplements. Plain calcium (no d3) at just about every feeding. Calcium with d3 twice a month and a multi. vit. once a month. In this link I use the 1st, 3rd & 5th http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/vitamins-medicines-and-cage-cleaners/
You need to gut load the crickets with collard greens they are excellent. You can also use kale, carrots, squash and orange. You can also buy a premixed gut load. One of the members here sales it. https://www.chameleonforums.com/gutload-sale-30579/
Looking forward to seeing pictures of your little guy!
The link that Brad gave you on keeping veileds is excellent. I still refer to it from time to time. http://raisingkittytheveiledchamele...-max=2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=11
You can make a homemade dripper. Take a plastic cup or bowl and poke a couple of very small holes in the bottom. Fill it with very warm water and make sure it drips very slow over a vine with leaves so your little guy can drink form the leaves. Also mist for a pretty long time. It takes awhile for them to start drinking. I would mist 3 or 4 times a day for 5 minutes or so. You will need drainage for your cage. Maybe some holes in the bottom with a bucket sitting under it to catch the water.
Branches from outside are ok from most trees. Clean them well and some member bake them in the oven. Cut the branch the size you need and thumb tacks can be use on each end to hold the branches up.
You need the Reptisun 5.0 UVB bulb like the one in the link. http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog...por-bulbs/-/zoo-med-24-repti-sun-50-uvb-bulb/ It has to be the tube style. A must to keep you guy from having MBD. How will you measuring the heat and humidity? This will be very important. At night he needs to be dark, no light, and cool so he can rest. He should be 10 degrees cooler at night than in the daytime but not below 65.
The feeders have to be "lightly" dusted with 3 kinds of supplements. Plain calcium (no d3) at just about every feeding. Calcium with d3 twice a month and a multi. vit. once a month. In this link I use the 1st, 3rd & 5th http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/vitamins-medicines-and-cage-cleaners/
You need to gut load the crickets with collard greens they are excellent. You can also use kale, carrots, squash and orange. You can also buy a premixed gut load. One of the members here sales it. https://www.chameleonforums.com/gutload-sale-30579/
Looking forward to seeing pictures of your little guy!
The link that Brad gave you on keeping veileds is excellent. I still refer to it from time to time. http://raisingkittytheveiledchamele...-max=2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=11
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graydon
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Yes. 40 or 60 watt
beeze
Avid Member
Welcome to the forums! A great place to learn about chameleons. I'm still learning everyday. Where are you located? Most of us in the US use a screened cage. Here's a link to a cage that I set-up for my female veiled, maybe it will be helpful. https://www.chameleonforums.com/members/beeze-albums-making-aluminum-cage.html
