MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
You’ve been given some solid advice. 
I can’t achieve night temps below the mid 70’s, so to prevent risk of respiratory infection, I don’t fog at all and barely give a very subtle bump to humidity at night via a couple of 15 second mistings. I do occasionally struggle with maintaining a decent daytime humidity in the room where I have 3 of my chams, so have a dehumidifier to help out.
I keep my discoid colony in the garage where it gets hot enough for them. They breed best when kept at around 90F. I’ve also found that they breed best when I keep them bioactively with an inch or two of organic soil mix with springtails, isopods and leaf litter. I also make them little hides from cork bark as they are shy and like to hide.
How much to feed your cutie can be a challenge to figure out at her age. We need to give enough food for our girls to grow properly, but not overfeed them where they reach maturity too fast and produce a huge clutch of eggs. I wouldn’t cut her so quickly down from 10 to 5 feeders. From my blog: Starting at around 5 months old, you’ll want to slowly start reducing her diet so that by the time she’s reached 6-7 months, she’s getting 5-8 smaller sized feeders daily. By 7-8 months, she should be getting 3-4 feeders, every other day and by 9-10 months old, further reduce her to 3-4 feeders three days a week (plus treats). If she happens to mature and lay eggs before any of this, the schedule will jump ahead.
I use primarily natural branches that I’ve scavenged. I take them to the back yard where I give them a little scrub with Dawn dish soapy water, blast well with the hose and let dry in the sun. It’s mainly dirt, bugs and wild animal poop that we want to remove. I don’t bake, bleach or remove the bark.
I have all of my chams in double sized enclosures (something I encourage all who can) which are bioactive and use heavy duty shelving to hold them. I use Dragon Ledges https://dragonstrand.com/dragon-ledges/ in some of my enclosures and garden trellis in others to hold plants and branches.
Do continue to ask as many questions as you need and share your progress and cutie’s beauty.
I can’t achieve night temps below the mid 70’s, so to prevent risk of respiratory infection, I don’t fog at all and barely give a very subtle bump to humidity at night via a couple of 15 second mistings. I do occasionally struggle with maintaining a decent daytime humidity in the room where I have 3 of my chams, so have a dehumidifier to help out.I keep my discoid colony in the garage where it gets hot enough for them. They breed best when kept at around 90F. I’ve also found that they breed best when I keep them bioactively with an inch or two of organic soil mix with springtails, isopods and leaf litter. I also make them little hides from cork bark as they are shy and like to hide.
How much to feed your cutie can be a challenge to figure out at her age. We need to give enough food for our girls to grow properly, but not overfeed them where they reach maturity too fast and produce a huge clutch of eggs. I wouldn’t cut her so quickly down from 10 to 5 feeders. From my blog: Starting at around 5 months old, you’ll want to slowly start reducing her diet so that by the time she’s reached 6-7 months, she’s getting 5-8 smaller sized feeders daily. By 7-8 months, she should be getting 3-4 feeders, every other day and by 9-10 months old, further reduce her to 3-4 feeders three days a week (plus treats). If she happens to mature and lay eggs before any of this, the schedule will jump ahead.
I use primarily natural branches that I’ve scavenged. I take them to the back yard where I give them a little scrub with Dawn dish soapy water, blast well with the hose and let dry in the sun. It’s mainly dirt, bugs and wild animal poop that we want to remove. I don’t bake, bleach or remove the bark.
I have all of my chams in double sized enclosures (something I encourage all who can) which are bioactive and use heavy duty shelving to hold them. I use Dragon Ledges https://dragonstrand.com/dragon-ledges/ in some of my enclosures and garden trellis in others to hold plants and branches.
Do continue to ask as many questions as you need and share your progress and cutie’s beauty.
