Your Chameleon - 1 year old male veiled chameleon named Ollie and he’s been in my care since January of 2025
Handling - I handle my chameleon everyday for at least a few minutes before work. Am changing their (have two but filling out a separate one for her) schedules to be able to interact with them more
Feeding - I am feeding 8 L crickets, 2-4 M-L Dubia roaches, and 2 super worms… I occasionally feed hornworms. crickets often die to fast (trying to find a solution) so then I feed them 6-8 dubia roaches and 2-4 super worms until I can get more crickets. I feed them everyday around 2-2:30pm.
Supplements - I use cricket gutload powder from petsmart. I supplement with zoo med calcium powder without d3 everyday, and zoo med reptivite vitamin with d3 every 1 1/2-2 weeks am looking for better products. now that he’s one years old I will dial it back to 3 days a week
Watering - I had a mist king mister for awhile then I broke the controller . So now I mist about 4-5 minutes a day once before lights come on, and after I get home from work. I do a light 2 minutes misting before I go to work, I also use a reptisafe water conditioner. I see Ollie drinking everyday, he will often come up to me while I’m spraying or just sit there drinking it up so I spray him lightly on his face and he seems to enjoy that haha..
Fecal Description - His poop and pupate look good, white with some orange or yellow. Pupate used to be all white with the mist king, but I heard that was not good for it to be all white, so I lowered my watering a tad bit, just a tad bit… he drops I wanna say once a day, once every other day, to once every 3 days. I’ve only actively seen him poop three times since my husbandry, but it’s kinda funny to see. I have not tested for parasite or have taken to the vet. I know… im sorry… i feel bad about it too… I will be taking him to the vet consistently since I’m stable now…
History - He’s active/chill, has a bold personality, loves being handled unlike my female . Tbh don’t know what this history bit wanted
Cage Info:
Cage Type -
Cage is currently too small and I hate it… imma upgrade him to a 2x2x4 hybrid bioactive setup. Got him when I just started getting my life back together and wasn’t as researched, so I bought what I could. It’s the reptibreeze chameleon screen enclose, the small one with the bright red panther chameleon on the cover (not even the xl 2x2x4) as they only had that smaller one
Dimensions are 16 x 16 x 30 january 2025 to April 28 2026)
New enclosure dimensions for 2 years will be 2 x 2 x4 & bioactive (1-3 years old) when I got him
Then will upgrade him to a 4 x 2 x 4 when hes (3-5 years old)
Lighting -
I use a heat lamp, with a 75w heat bulb, I use a reptisun uvb light bar with t5 bulb, I use Arcadia jungle dawn light for my plants, Light schedule was 7-7. They are Currently at 9-9, but have been slowly changing it to 2pm to 2am.
Temperature -
Temp is usually around the 92 basking, 75 ambient and a nightly 63-65, I measure using a Hygrometer and thermometer.
Humidity - Humidity has been harder to keep for me but it’s stays around a 35%-45% with the screen cage and at night is a little higher at 55%-65%. Misting, humidity soil, reptibreeze fogger (getting a different one)
Plants - I am using live plants, pothos and zz plant (zz plant going away soon as space is limited and found out it doesn’t like the moisture). Space is also limited due to enclosure size and something I built that I maybe don’t like in there, So I can’t wait to swap out enclosures…
Placement -
Enclosure is Located on a 4 x 2 x 4 stand cabinet, No fans, a window that stays closed, and it’s a light-medium traffic area(my bedroom)
Height is probably around 5 feet 5-7 inches off the ground from top of enclosure to bottom of cabinet
Location - I am located in Sparks, Nv
I also have a female Cham, should I make one for her as well? She’s different than Ollie is
My current problem is pretty much everything as a whole. I feel like I’m doing good enough and I’m not a great husbander to my chams. I want to know if that feeling goes away or if there’s something I can do better and hopefully it’s something I can do better. I just want as much information as possible.
Are they happy, idk
are they living, yes
Can I do better, yes
Am I open to criticism, help, and information, yes
Can’t upload photos for some reason, I got it had to refresh. The two pothos plants are out because I’m changing his enclosure around. I don’t like the thing I build, might take it down and do the branches instead of what I did
now that he’s one years old I will dial it back to 3 days a week
. So now I mist about 4-5 minutes a day once before lights come on, and after I get home from work. I do a light 2 minutes misting before I go to work, I also use a reptisafe water conditioner. I see Ollie drinking everyday, he will often come up to me while I’m spraying or just sit there drinking it up so I spray him lightly on his face and he seems to enjoy that haha..
