chase31157
New Member
Hello,
Me and my girlfriend have been thinking about getting a chameleon for months and finally decided to do it! We have both read many articles and have prepared ourselves as well as you can without actually having experience. We set up the cage yesterday (old school oceanic 38g glass with screen on top and the two sides are screen doors). We plan on moving her to a full screen cage in a few months. We purchased the female chameleon two days ago and have not picked her up yet due to us both trying to set up the cage and proper humidity/temp. We have ran across some problems. We have moss at the bottom to keep humidity (very dry here in Colorado) and a red heat lamp and 5.0 uvb bulb. Our problem is that the two gauges we have for humidity/temp read completely different depending on where they are in the tank. Right now the basking area eight inches under the red heat lamp reads 97 degrees and the humidity reads 40. We have a automatic sprayer that is directed onto the fake plant leaves to create more humidity and water for the lil' gal. If anyone could give us any advice on how to read the gauges or how to keep our humidity up without having a pool of water under the moss would be much appreciated! It is just confusing because if I put the gauge near the bottom (by the moss) humidity reads 80.. and near the top 30.. Again any help would be great,
Chase
Me and my girlfriend have been thinking about getting a chameleon for months and finally decided to do it! We have both read many articles and have prepared ourselves as well as you can without actually having experience. We set up the cage yesterday (old school oceanic 38g glass with screen on top and the two sides are screen doors). We plan on moving her to a full screen cage in a few months. We purchased the female chameleon two days ago and have not picked her up yet due to us both trying to set up the cage and proper humidity/temp. We have ran across some problems. We have moss at the bottom to keep humidity (very dry here in Colorado) and a red heat lamp and 5.0 uvb bulb. Our problem is that the two gauges we have for humidity/temp read completely different depending on where they are in the tank. Right now the basking area eight inches under the red heat lamp reads 97 degrees and the humidity reads 40. We have a automatic sprayer that is directed onto the fake plant leaves to create more humidity and water for the lil' gal. If anyone could give us any advice on how to read the gauges or how to keep our humidity up without having a pool of water under the moss would be much appreciated! It is just confusing because if I put the gauge near the bottom (by the moss) humidity reads 80.. and near the top 30.. Again any help would be great,
Chase