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Hey guys just got my chameleon a new enclosure, thoughts ?
 

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Here is some recommended information to include when asking for help in the health clinic forum. By providing this information you will receive more accurate and beneficial responses. It might not be necessary to answer all these questions, but the more you provide the better. Please remember that even the most knowledgeable person can only guess at what your problem may be. Only an experienced reptile veterinarian who can directly examine your animal can give a true diagnosis of your chameleon's health.


Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?
  • Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

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She doesn’t really have any problems she’s looked healthy to me since I’ve had her but I’ll answer the forum questions, just came her for some feedback
  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? - female veiled cham, she’s about a year and a half old and I’ve had it for about a year .
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? I don’t usually take her out unless I’m cleaning the cage
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? I feed her crickets and sometimes horned worms but rarely . I don’t gut load the crickets all the time but when I do I’ll put vegetables and fruit with cricket food
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? I dust the feeders with zoo med repti calcium and I feed her every other day or so
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? I have a water dropped with some leaves and I hand mist her her enclosure, I need to get moss to keep the humidity
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? Her recent poop has been white and no she’s never been tested for parasites
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? My cage is a glass with screen top
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? I’m not sure what lighting brand I use but I have a uv light and a heat light and I usually turn it on at 9am to 9pm
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?i turn both lights off in the night bc I live in Cali and it’s already pretty hot in there. The temperature stays to about 85 during the day
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? I don’t have anything to currently measure humility
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? I am not I use fake ones
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?My cage is on the top of my dresser away from vents and fans
  • Location - Where are you geographically located? California
 
This is a picture of my jacksons cham enclosure obviously your veiled will have a slightly different design for to size and other factors but you can see what i mean by giving then lots of places to explore they love it and it really makes viewing much more rewarding when they are highly active and enriched
 
Putting my feedback in red.
  • Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care? - female veiled cham, she’s about a year and a half old and I’ve had it for about a year . Has she laid eggs yet? Do you have a lay bin for her?
  • Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon? I don’t usually take her out unless I’m cleaning the cage
  • Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders? I feed her crickets and sometimes horned worms but rarely . I don’t gut load the crickets all the time but when I do I’ll put vegetables and fruit with cricket food You need to consistently gut load the crickets or they aren’t offering her much nutrition. It’s not about keeping the crickets alive as much as it’s about passing nutrition on to the cham. Offering a larger variety of feeders is also a good idea. Attaching feeder and gutload graphics for you.
  • Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule? I dust the feeders with zoo med repti calcium and I feed her every other day or so Does your calcium have D3 in it? You should be using phosphorus free calcium without D3 at every feeding except one per week. That one weekly feeding you’ll use calcium with D3, the next weekly feeding use a multivitamin that does not have D3 in it. Keep rotating these.
  • Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking? I have a water dropped with some leaves and I hand mist her her enclosure, I need to get moss to keep the humidity No moss! You should be misting/spraying 2-3 times daily for at least 2 minutes. If using a dripper, mist once in morning and once in evening.
  • Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites? Her recent poop has been white and no she’s never been tested for parasites The white is urine, called urate. It’s always suggested to have a fecal checked for parasites.
  • History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions? My cage is a glass with screen top This really looks too small for an adult chameleon. The standard minimum is 2x2x4’ or equivalent.
  • Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule? I’m not sure what lighting brand I use but I have a uv light and a heat light and I usually turn it on at 9am to 9pm It appears you have the coil/screw in uvb light. That bulb is unable to provide adequate uvb. You need a linear T5HO fixture with a 5.0 (or Arcadia 6%) uvb bulb. It should be long enough to span the width of the enclosure.
  • Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?i turn both lights off in the night bc I live in Cali and it’s already pretty hot in there. The temperature stays to about 85 during the day That’s a bit too warm for a female. You ideally don’t want basking temps to go any higher than 80*.
  • Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity? I don’t have anything to currently measure humility You need to get a hygrometer...they are pretty cheap. Humidity needs to be between 30-50% during the day. High heat + high humidity = respiratory infections.
  • Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind? I am not I use fake ones Veiled nibble their plants and have been known to eat fake leaves and get impacted. Live plants are best. Pothos is one of the best imho. Here’s a resource for safe plants. https://chameleonacademy.com/plants/
  • Placement - Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?My cage is on the top of my dresser away from vents and fans
  • Location - Where are you geographically located? California

    So, your enclosure besides being too small, is sadly too bare. You need to provide many branches and vines for your cham to climb, live plants to drink from, hide beneath and nibble. You want it to take a minute to find your cham when you look into her enclosure. As well, she will be needing a lay bin as permanent part of her enclosure. Females need a little different care than males. I feed my adult females only 3-4 feeders 3 times a week and keep their temps at 80* or below. This helps reduce the frequency and/or amount of eggs laid. Too many eggs can be a high risk for becoming egg bound. Laying eggs takes a great deal out of them so we try to reduce it best we can.
    I’d really like to see a pic or several of your chameleon. Without proper uvb and questionable supplementation, your cham is also been at high risk for metabolic bone disorder, or mbd.
  • Feel free to ask as many questions as needed here. The forum is full of super helpful people who want to help you create the healthiest and happiest environment for your chameleon. Some really great resources to check out.
    https://chameleonacademy.com/. Make sure to check out the podcasts too.
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/NeptunetheChameleon
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Lizardking303523 said:
Does anyone know how to stop the cage from over flowing with water ?
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You should really have a screen cage, in my opinion. If you got the reptibreeze xl, you could easily install drainage. With the glas though, it is not so easy. Also with glass, not as good airflow, a lot of times ends up higher humidity Than you want for a veiled too
 
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