I recently got my new little guy last week and I have built out his enclosure which is small and temporary while I wait for his new larger enclosure to come in. I have been doing research for about a year and am very excited for this journey. If you’re asking why I have a small enclosure if I’ve been doing research for a year, it’s because my fiancé surprise me with getting my chameleon so I didn’t have the larger enclosure at the time. Should arrive tomorrow.
For reference he is a young veiled chameleon, got him literally last Thursday 7/10 and is maybe 3 months old.
I have a few questions while you are here!
1. Feeding - I am waiting for some black soldier fly larvae to come in and I am now a bit confused, can these be added as daily feeders or are they treat bugs? I see they are high in calcium and protein but I don’t want to over feed them if they are considered treats. I am also trying, very hard, to get my guy to eat dubia roaches but he will not touch them. Any tips on getting them to eat them? I’ve tried putting like 15 in his bowl so they have to crawl on top of each other but they eventually just stop moving and then he could care less. I can’t really offer them by hand or tongs because he’s still to scared of me. I tried placing one right in front of him, but it immediately ran off and is now somewhere in the enclosure. He has only eaten gut loaded crickets about 7 a day and 1 very small hornworm that I gave him yesterday.
2. I know it’s day 5 but I would love to know how others have gotten their chams more
comfortable with you being around. I’m talking about no longer running to hide when you come in the room, to then becoming comfortable enough to take food from my hand or tongs, to then eventually choice based handeling. I’m not trying to force anything I would just love to know what your steps were so I can start trying maybe in a month once he’s completely settled. Right now I am only near him when putting his feeders in and maybe to adjust his misters.
1. Drippers - Do you guys have a dripper going all day? where does the water drip into? A plant a container? Can anyone with a dripper send me some pics of your set up? What if you are out of town, I assume you don’t use the dripper and maybe mist the enclosure more often, if you have an automatic mister. If that’s the case then is a dripper even necessary? Seeing some people not even use them. My misters get the top cage wet as well and he’s been drinking water droplets from the mesh.
Any advice is welcome. Picture attached was taken right after I took him out of the travel box and then immediately placed into his enclosure. He wasn’t very happy.
For reference he is a young veiled chameleon, got him literally last Thursday 7/10 and is maybe 3 months old.
I have a few questions while you are here!
1. Feeding - I am waiting for some black soldier fly larvae to come in and I am now a bit confused, can these be added as daily feeders or are they treat bugs? I see they are high in calcium and protein but I don’t want to over feed them if they are considered treats. I am also trying, very hard, to get my guy to eat dubia roaches but he will not touch them. Any tips on getting them to eat them? I’ve tried putting like 15 in his bowl so they have to crawl on top of each other but they eventually just stop moving and then he could care less. I can’t really offer them by hand or tongs because he’s still to scared of me. I tried placing one right in front of him, but it immediately ran off and is now somewhere in the enclosure. He has only eaten gut loaded crickets about 7 a day and 1 very small hornworm that I gave him yesterday.
2. I know it’s day 5 but I would love to know how others have gotten their chams more
comfortable with you being around. I’m talking about no longer running to hide when you come in the room, to then becoming comfortable enough to take food from my hand or tongs, to then eventually choice based handeling. I’m not trying to force anything I would just love to know what your steps were so I can start trying maybe in a month once he’s completely settled. Right now I am only near him when putting his feeders in and maybe to adjust his misters.
1. Drippers - Do you guys have a dripper going all day? where does the water drip into? A plant a container? Can anyone with a dripper send me some pics of your set up? What if you are out of town, I assume you don’t use the dripper and maybe mist the enclosure more often, if you have an automatic mister. If that’s the case then is a dripper even necessary? Seeing some people not even use them. My misters get the top cage wet as well and he’s been drinking water droplets from the mesh.
Any advice is welcome. Picture attached was taken right after I took him out of the travel box and then immediately placed into his enclosure. He wasn’t very happy.