New Chammy Owner

Rpkone26

New Member
Hi forum :)
Im Ryan
A relative of mine recently inherited a baby veiled chameleon and doesn't know what to do with it. so I volunteered to take her.
I am going to start my cage build for when she comes home with me and this is what I have so far.

It needs to be mesh, not glass, humid, free flowing, high, with live plants and plenty of sticks to climb on, a basking area (around 80 degrees) at the top of the enclosure, needs to have a bedding area at the bottom (around 65-70 degrees at night), it needs to have a heat lamp for basking, and a UVB light for vitamin absorption? and it needs to be humid.
She would eat crickets twice daily, with one cricket covered in calcium for stronger bones weekly, and someone suggested a multivitamin? Finally. it needs a dripper for water, cause chameleons dont drink from a bowl, but lap it off plants.

Think I have everything covered? I want to give this Chameleon a nice place to live :)
Here is a simple design I did. how does it look? the panel on the right is the door. everything will be covered with mesh
ChameleonCage.jpg


OOH most importantly, This chammy would have to fly back with me from CT to Tx. and I dont want to put her down below with the dogs because it would get SUPER COLD! do you think she could survive a 3 hour flight in a small insulated cat carrier in the cabin?

Here she is
photo-22.jpg
 
NOT saying you should do this cause a cham is much more fragile than a bearded Dragon. I flew out of a small airport- Stewart in Newburgh NY. They don't have that lift arm pivot machine, just a metal detector and a wand.

I put Elliot between my sweater and shirt down my side. I walked though metal detector, got the wand and done. Gathered my stuff from the xray/belt. Went to the ladies room moved him to my chest under my sweater- put my Jacket on and he slept the entire flight....

I have no idea what the regs would be, but if someone thinks it is okay I would consider using foot warmers/hand warmers that skiers use to keep the temp up in the carrier while in the cabin, if they allow it
 
Welcome to the forums. This is a great place to learn about chameleons. I don't know allot about cages because I free range all of mine. I do have a blog for new keepers that will give you some info that you will need to keep her healthy and happy. There's a section and a link for females and I'll also attach my laying bin/egg laying blog for you too because you'll need that in a few months. Females can and often do lay eggs without a male even being around. Jann
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-keepers-young-veiled-panther-chameleons.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/jannb/345-egg-laying-laying-bin.html
 
Back
Top Bottom