Hello.
I am so glad to have found this site. Now, I feel like I have some back up in my new venture with our new Veiled Chameleon.
I have always wanted an "old world" Chameleon. Always as in since I was a kid, and that was pretty long ago...but my parents were less than keen on the idea then, and during the busy years of career building and child rearing, and a husband who thought having reptiles in the house was "dirty". Years past, and I would look longingly at them in stores, or zoos...until, I realized that divorce had solved yet ANOTHER issue for me!
I have done my reading, and set up a screen enclosure (18x18x36) with the UVB light, basking lamp, have the ficus, vines, and a dripper bottle, and filtered water in my water spray bottle. I buy my crickets and feed them with the calcium based water jello, dry cricket food, and whatever fruit and vegie we and the rabbit are eating that day. I did offer him a couple meal worms, but he has steadfastly ignored them.
I found a reptile store with a good reputation (at least that's what I've heard) and they have been around for years.
I bought a baby veiled. I think he is very young. He looks like the pictures of babys that I see on internet postings as being a couple months old. I've had him just over a week.
We named him "Dipped in Butter" as we figured that our dogs would like him served that way....
I spray the cage down until the majority of leaves on the plant are very wet, and I offer him crickets in a low bowl that also has some romaine and thinly sliced fruit or vegies to encourage the crickets to stay there, and in case he wants to eat vegetation.
I have seen him eat a few crickets, but never have I SEEN him lick leaves, or water. He is a lovely kelly-lime green color, and I have not seen any other coloration on him. He puffs up a bit when I stick my hand in there to clean up, is active during the day (well as active as I would expect him to be) and puts himself "to bed" on a lower twig around 9pm every night.
What else should I be doing ?
Thanks in Advance.
I am so glad to have found this site. Now, I feel like I have some back up in my new venture with our new Veiled Chameleon.
I have always wanted an "old world" Chameleon. Always as in since I was a kid, and that was pretty long ago...but my parents were less than keen on the idea then, and during the busy years of career building and child rearing, and a husband who thought having reptiles in the house was "dirty". Years past, and I would look longingly at them in stores, or zoos...until, I realized that divorce had solved yet ANOTHER issue for me!
I have done my reading, and set up a screen enclosure (18x18x36) with the UVB light, basking lamp, have the ficus, vines, and a dripper bottle, and filtered water in my water spray bottle. I buy my crickets and feed them with the calcium based water jello, dry cricket food, and whatever fruit and vegie we and the rabbit are eating that day. I did offer him a couple meal worms, but he has steadfastly ignored them.
I found a reptile store with a good reputation (at least that's what I've heard) and they have been around for years.
I bought a baby veiled. I think he is very young. He looks like the pictures of babys that I see on internet postings as being a couple months old. I've had him just over a week.
We named him "Dipped in Butter" as we figured that our dogs would like him served that way....
I spray the cage down until the majority of leaves on the plant are very wet, and I offer him crickets in a low bowl that also has some romaine and thinly sliced fruit or vegies to encourage the crickets to stay there, and in case he wants to eat vegetation.
I have seen him eat a few crickets, but never have I SEEN him lick leaves, or water. He is a lovely kelly-lime green color, and I have not seen any other coloration on him. He puffs up a bit when I stick my hand in there to clean up, is active during the day (well as active as I would expect him to be) and puts himself "to bed" on a lower twig around 9pm every night.
What else should I be doing ?
Thanks in Advance.