Cages....Yeah, I don't take many pictures of cages and I almost hesitate to post some of them. After this much time and keeping different species....to explain it best, there's just some intuition involved. For instance, with smaller chams, like my sub-adult Jackson's, the cage is pretty big and very well planted. I think juvenile animals don't live as high as adults in most species so I give the young ones more of a brushy environment. When they get bigger I think more tree-top habitat for anything as big as or bigger than say.... Jackson's or Fischer's? Indoor cages for adult veileds and panthers are not all that nice to look at honestly. Usually just one plant that reaches almost to the top of the cage and fills in a lot of the vertical space within the cage plus some dead branches for climbing. Right now I have an adult male veiled and an adult male panther who take turns free-ranging on a potted tree I bring in while the temps are too low to be outside because I'm short a cage. Again this goes back to the intuition thing, both of these guys are solid and won't have any ill effects from moving around. Oh, and btw while they seem very functional, I hate hate hate how fake Biovines look and don't use them. Dead branches, live plants. Consider the age and size of the chameleon being kept in it, and adjust density of foliage accordingly. I prefer Schefflera and don't have a lot of luck with Ficus unless they're outside. I've heard the frequent watering is why I kill Ficus indoors. I think I'll have some nice sun this weekend so I'll try to get some good cage pics then.
