Living cages question.

[Jeff000]

I have been looking at getting a Chameleon for a while, and decided on blue bar ambilobe. Hopefully a pair.
I really want a living cage, and have seen several lists of safe plants.

But my couple questions are.
How do you clean a living cage?
How large a cage would I need for 2 in a living cage?

I seem to only see plants in pots talked about, but I see pictures of beautiful living cages without pots, and that is what I would like. But I can't seem to find information on what I am looking for.


Thanks for any help.

 

[Jeff000]

Well, figured out that searching for bioactive is far more useful. Although a TON of conflicting information, especially about size of enclosure.

 

[jajeanpierre]

I don't think you will be able to keep a pair of panthers in the same cage, even room-sized. You don't clean them.

 

[Carlton]

I have been looking at getting a Chameleon for a while, and decided on blue bar ambilobe. Hopefully a pair.
I really want a living cage, and have seen several lists of safe plants.

But my couple questions are.
How do you clean a living cage?
How large a cage would I need for 2 in a living cage?

I seem to only see plants in pots talked about, but I see pictures of beautiful living cages without pots, and that is what I would like. But I can't seem to find information on what I am looking for.


Thanks for any help.

A pair of panthers won't share a cage, even a very large one.

Potted plants work well for chams for many reasons, one of which is because you can grow a much larger sturdier shrub or tree in a pot than trying to grow it in the relatively shallow soil in the bottom of a cage (unless you have a cage base that has as much growing media depth as those pots offer).

One thing to remember about those photos of living cages...they may look perfect at the time the photo was taken, but viewers don't know anything about how long it took for it to get that way, how much detailed work it requires to keep it that way, or how long that particular setup lasted (without developing problems). Now the dart frog community has lots of years of terrarium design behind it and their setups are quite beautiful, but remember the inhabitants are tiny and don't do much if any damage to the plants. Chams are very different. Not to say you can't create a bioactive cage for them but there are a lot fewer keepers who do it.