Lacyw05
New Member
Hello I am new to owning a chameleon and I wanted to make sure all my settings for heat, lighting, food, and humidity are good? Reason being: my chameleon is weird colors which I will post a pic of ~ also my enclosure needs a remodel for new plants and branches which I am hoping is the reason for his colors~ I have a glass enclosure with a screen on the top I have a uvb coil 13 watt bulb which came with the kit and I will replace with a bar light of 5.0 once it should be changed out, I have a 60 watt blue daylight bulb that also came with the kit that keeps the temperature at 80 f but also I have a che light of 100watt that I keep on as well that keeps the temperature at 94 f at the basking spot, and I will change the bulb for either a 75/100 watt retisun bulb (another question: is it ok to keep the Che on with the daylight bulb on to keep the temperature up to the correct degree? ) and the humidity is at 65-75 but has risen to 90 after misting so I put a fan up horizontal to the enclosure to help with air flow - and finally I have the water dripping tree in my enclosure and I have read that waterfalls create bacteria and I don’t know if this system is considered one- we have put the settings on the tree where it only drips off the leaves - and finally I have the powder without D3 that I put on his crickets for feeding and with D3 once every two weeks I read~ now I will feed the crickets carrots and potatoes but I also have the pet store gel looking stuff and for now is that ok for feeding ? Thank you, I do appreciate it ~ I have also only had him for one day and idk if the colors are just him adjusting or anything but I also know that we will be redoing his enclosure so he can have more coverage and in the future we will put in real plants by this time this photo doesn’t show his colors but if it happens again I will post !!