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Panther Enclosures Cages
Warning. Alot of Pictures. I would love to have other peple reply to this thread with pics of their own enclosures and comments for the people new to the hobby as a good point of reference for them.
WoW. I've accomplished alot and still have more to do. Hopefully this will be an ongoing project. Here I'll outline what I've done, mostly everything I've learned from these forums. A picture is worth 1000 words, so I have alot of pics.
Ok. So you want a chameleon?
Don't know where to start?
Want to see what others have?
This is the thread is designed to answer some of these basic questions with examples.
I keep 1.1 (that's 1 male, 1 female) Furcifer Pardalis (Panther) Chameleons.
Originally I had just the male, Evo, and as he grew in size and outgrew his original enclosure, I setup his cage, and then added a 2nd for his jeina, Mila.
Needs to consider for a proper enclosure:
1) source of UVb light (reptisun 5.0 Linear preferred.)
2) Plants. Lots of them. That's where they live.
3) Basking spot. Mine are set to provide an area where the chams can choose to bask at between 85-90 Farenheint, measured with a temp gun.
4) Water. My chams drink off the leaves, so there has to be a way for them get the needed moisture.
5) Highways and byways - vines and/or sticks for your guys to get around on.
6) waste desposal - My two chams tend to poo in the same spot everytime. I can provide a paper towel for them to poo on and remove the waste daily this way.
7) Drainage - You don't want that water to build up, now do you?
My juvenile seup:
this is my original setup. I had posted it up in this forum before I ever obtained my chameleon so the other more experienced members could critque
Later I added more sticks to the cage, so he could bask a bit better and move around easier. Notice the foliage also grew in a bit.
I decided that the single florescent tube wasn't enough. So I replaced the fixture with a dual setup from an agriculture website. I added a "plant spectrum" bulb that had a red tinge. I would have replaced it with a standard florescent bulb had my guy not outgrown this cage anyways. Also, the Draceana wasn't doing so well, so I replaced it with a fake plant. I didn't like using a fake plant and won't do so in the future. It worked becasue it was small enough to fit in the space I had open. Also note, the tupperware container below. I burned some spots in the lid so the water could drain into it from the dripper.
I got the idea from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg9oz5kMLYY an instructional video on making drippers.
Warning. Alot of Pictures. I would love to have other peple reply to this thread with pics of their own enclosures and comments for the people new to the hobby as a good point of reference for them.
WoW. I've accomplished alot and still have more to do. Hopefully this will be an ongoing project. Here I'll outline what I've done, mostly everything I've learned from these forums. A picture is worth 1000 words, so I have alot of pics.
Ok. So you want a chameleon?
Don't know where to start?
Want to see what others have?
This is the thread is designed to answer some of these basic questions with examples.
I keep 1.1 (that's 1 male, 1 female) Furcifer Pardalis (Panther) Chameleons.
Originally I had just the male, Evo, and as he grew in size and outgrew his original enclosure, I setup his cage, and then added a 2nd for his jeina, Mila.
Needs to consider for a proper enclosure:
1) source of UVb light (reptisun 5.0 Linear preferred.)
2) Plants. Lots of them. That's where they live.
3) Basking spot. Mine are set to provide an area where the chams can choose to bask at between 85-90 Farenheint, measured with a temp gun.
4) Water. My chams drink off the leaves, so there has to be a way for them get the needed moisture.
5) Highways and byways - vines and/or sticks for your guys to get around on.
6) waste desposal - My two chams tend to poo in the same spot everytime. I can provide a paper towel for them to poo on and remove the waste daily this way.
7) Drainage - You don't want that water to build up, now do you?
My juvenile seup:
this is my original setup. I had posted it up in this forum before I ever obtained my chameleon so the other more experienced members could critque
Later I added more sticks to the cage, so he could bask a bit better and move around easier. Notice the foliage also grew in a bit.
I decided that the single florescent tube wasn't enough. So I replaced the fixture with a dual setup from an agriculture website. I added a "plant spectrum" bulb that had a red tinge. I would have replaced it with a standard florescent bulb had my guy not outgrown this cage anyways. Also, the Draceana wasn't doing so well, so I replaced it with a fake plant. I didn't like using a fake plant and won't do so in the future. It worked becasue it was small enough to fit in the space I had open. Also note, the tupperware container below. I burned some spots in the lid so the water could drain into it from the dripper.
I got the idea from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg9oz5kMLYY an instructional video on making drippers.
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