My first enclosure...be gentle!

ChameleonTherapy

ChameleonTherapy

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I'll be getting my panther baby in about a month. Tonight I started work on his bioactive enclosure. I have branches from the woods behind my house washed and set out to dry in the sun tomorrow to add to it tomorrow.

Any suggestions?
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This is looking great! The first thing that comes to mind to be improved is adding more horizontal branches. Supposedly they're most comfortable there. You also want to add these branches in the middle and towards the top of the cage. 6-9" from the top, or so.

More plants around the middle and top would be a great addition as well. Pothos are great. They're inexpensive, hard to kill, and dover a lot of room. Dragon ledges make them very easy to suspend in the air.

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I've got the t5 10.0 bar UVB light, a heat lamp, and an LED grow light from Biodude. Still trying to figure out best placement of the heat and UVB to cover the basking branch. I need to get a hook to mount in the ceiling to hang the heat lamp from so its not resting on the cage.
 
Final version of enclosure with all branches and 2nd pothos added up top (Back right corner). Heat lamp will be hanging from ceiling hook in back left corner (branch added for basking if he wants to be directly under 12" away), UVB will go diagonally from back right to front left (basking is 9 inches below), and grow bar will remain horizontal on front side top.

How am I doing?

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There's about four hiding branches you cant see in the middle of the plants. I'm thinking that curvy branch towards the front will make a good feeding branch; I plan on mounting a cup for feeding on the left screen just below that bend in the branch. That will be for the hopping bugs, all the others I think I'm gonna let roam supervised so he can hunt. Those leaves towards the front hanging over the driftwood piece looks like a primo drinking fountain.
 
Great job! I would pull the moss vine though. Panthers will try to chew on branches... The moss vine is an impaction risk.
 
ChameleonTherapy said:
I plan to. There are some stiffer vines without all the moss on them at my reptile store.
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Make sure they are not the exo terra jungle vines. They have a black coating that can come off. Honestly your better off with all real branches. The fake vines break down and can cause issues if the cham chews on them or rubs their face on them. :)
 
Looks just perfect!
AWEOMSE pfp btw. I had a similar character that was the son of a nyph and a green dragon. Crazy cool dude.
 
saradoggy10 said:
Looks just perfect!
AWEOMSE pfp btw. I had a similar character that was the son of a nyph and a green dragon. Crazy cool dude.
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Thanks! I haven’t rolled him up yet; I am waiting for a friend to start running a Roll20 game. He’s either going to be a Ranger or a Rogue.
 
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