Your Chameleon - 9 month old female veiled chameleon named Chami and she’s been in my care since June of 2025
Handling - I don’t handle her, she lets me touch her now and then either physically pet her or touch her nose through the screen cage. Something I learned recently is I have to build trust with specific actions. So I will do that.
Feeding - I am feeding 4 large crickets now every other day and Saturday treats: 1 hornworm or 2 super worms
Supplements - I use cricket gutload powder from petsmart. I supplement with zoo med calcium powder without d3 everyday, and zoo med reptivite vitamin with d3 every Monday
Watering - I had a mist king mister for awhile then I broke the controller . So now I mist about 4-5 minutes a day once before lights come on, and after I get home from work. I do a light 2 minutes misting before I go to work, I also use a reptisafe water conditioner. I see Chami drinking almost everyday, she will often drink as I spray her enclosure or gather from leaves after she ran away from the mister as soon as it barely touches her… haha
Fecal Description - her poop and pupate look good, white with some orange or yellow. Pupate used to be all white with the mist king, but I heard that was not good for it to be all white, so I lowered my watering a tad bit, just a tad bit… she drops I wanna say once a day, once every other day, to once every 3 days. I’ve never actively seen her poop since my husbandry, but i do see poop. I have not tested for parasite or have taken to the vet. I know… im sorry… i feel bad about it too… I will be taking him to the vet consistently since I’m stable now…
History - she is chill, has a bold personality, sometimes does not like being handled (might have to do with trust). Gives you the side eye only a woman can give
Cage Info:
Cage Type -
Cage is currently too small and I hate it… imma upgrade her to a 2x2x4 hybrid bioactive setup. Got her when I just started getting my life back together and wasn’t as researched, so I bought what I could. It’s the reptibreeze chameleon screen enclose, the small one with the bright red panther chameleon on the cover (not even the xl 2x2x4) as they only had that smaller one
Dimensions are 16 x 16 x 30 january 2025 to April 28 2026)
New enclosure dimensions for 2 years will be 2 x 2 x4 & bioactive (1-3 years old) when I got him
Then will upgrade him to a 4 x 2 x 4 when she is (3-5 years old)
Lighting -
I use a heat lamp, with a 75w heat bulb, I use a reptisun uvb light bar with t5 bulb, I use Arcadia jungle dawn light for my plants, Light schedule was 7-7. They are Currently at 9-9, but have been slowly changing it to 2pm to 2am.
Temperature -
Temp is usually around the 82 (now) basking, 75 ambient and a nightly 63-65, I measure using a Hygrometer and thermometer.
Humidity - Humidity has been harder to keep for me but it’s stays around a 35%-45% with the screen cage and at night is a little higher at 55%-65%. Misting, humidity soil, reptibreeze fogger (getting a different one)
Plants - I am using live plants, pothos and philodendron plant and pothos plant. Might add hibiscus to both their enclosures
Placement - same as Ollie
Enclosure is Located on a 4 x 2 x 4 stand cabinet, No fans, a window that stays closed, and it’s a light-medium traffic area(my bedroom) Height is probably around 5 feet 5-7 inches off the ground from top of enclosure to bottom of cabinet
Location - I am located in Sparks, Nv
Cleaning enclosures today and tomorrow, so I’ll upload photos of them soon.
. So now I mist about 4-5 minutes a day once before lights come on, and after I get home from work. I do a light 2 minutes misting before I go to work, I also use a reptisafe water conditioner. I see Chami drinking almost everyday, she will often drink as I spray her enclosure or gather from leaves after she ran away from the mister as soon as it barely touches her… haha
(1-3 years old) when I got him
