screen cages?

[RoskaL]

why screen cages and not wooden vivs? the only main advantage i can think of is the cham would get a airy feeling (its hard to explain) and maybe abit of breeze


is there any main advantage to screen over wooden vivs?

 

[Oski]

why screen cages and not wooden vivs? the only main advantage i can think of is the cham would get a airy feeling (its hard to explain) and maybe abit of breeze


is there any main advantage to screen over wooden vivs?

Yes they need air circulation,

Stagnant air is no good for them, thats why most people who use wooden vivs, which alot do in the UK they mod them with screen tops, screen bottom panel,vents etc, to allow more air flow.

 

[RoskaL]

That's what I thought, we have a wooden viV with plenty of vents and I was thinking about putting a big moving fan at the top that moves slightly to simulate. Wind with some PC exhaust fans on the bottom vents to circulate

Would she like a bit of wind do u think, not like harsh just a gentle breeze.

 

[pssh]

No air should be blowing into the cage. Only use the fans in a way that will draw air out of the enclosure to help circulate the air.

 

[RoskaL]

How come? In the wild they live in trees

 

[OOOst16]

The moving fan at the top would stress them out....in the wild there is no moving fans...stress = chameleon death. If you want to do high humidity then get a reptarium mesh cage with smaller mesh holes....or build a wood and glass cage with screen bottom and top or (all cages should have a screen top so the light can get through) use SMALL fans that pull the air out....my chameleon is terrified of breezes outside....I'm sure he's glad he has none in his kingdom.

 

[Todnedo]

How come? In the wild they live in trees

plus they are more active when the wind blows

 

[OOOst16]

I have to disagree...my chameleon is CB....he will not. Move. At .all. When there is any breeze outside. He gets as skinny as a stick and try to hide...always from the breeze.

 

[RoskaL]

Ill probably just put some PC exhaust fans on some of the vents then

 

[Todnedo]

I have to disagree...my chameleon is CB....he will not. Move. At .all. When there is any breeze outside. He gets as skinny as a stick and try to hide...always from the breeze.

Yeah he is probably retarded, with captive breeding, even the weak will survive and sometimes you get a retarded chameleon

 

[Oski]

Ill probably just put some PC exhaust fans on some of the vents then

What setup have you got?

 

[pssh]

It's a constant draft kind of thing. A bit of a breeze isn't going to be harmful and many even appreciate it, but I don't think there should be a breeze all the time. Plus it dries out the air. It's nit because the fan is going to stress it to death (though I suppose it could.)

There is not always a somewhat strong breeze all the time 24/7 in nature.

 

[RoskaL]

im using a tall glass fronted wooden viv with 4 big vents at the back 2 top and 2 bottom and one in each side
i have put 2 exhaust fans on the bottom vents pulling the air in from top the and out through the bottom and runn this every now and then which she seems to like

she will be moving to a screen house when we have some money and we can find one, hard things to find in uk!!

 

[Itwas]

I found a store in the UK who sell the repti breeze screen cages for almost half the usual price. I will stick a link up when i get home. I will be getting one as soon as Doc is big enough not to get lost in one, it hard enough to find him in his current home.

http://www.surreypetsupplies.co.uk/zoo-med-reptibreeze-screen-cage.html

 

[Carlton]

It's a constant draft kind of thing. A bit of a breeze isn't going to be harmful and many even appreciate it, but I don't think there should be a breeze all the time. Plus it dries out the air. It's nit because the fan is going to stress it to death (though I suppose it could.)

There is not always a somewhat strong breeze all the time 24/7 in nature.

Exactly...too much breeze will just dry out the cage quicker. I doubt a fan is going to stress a cham that much! What upsets them is CHANGE from what they are used to, and a cbb cham is used to foliage and scenery that isn't moving. It has nothing to do with being retarded...it's inexperience.

You want to avoid completely stagnant highly humid or overly warm air...all things that can happen in a solid sided viv. Screen or ventilated cages create a variety of microclimates in temp and humidity that the cham can use to thermoregulate itself. Solid sided vivs tend to be too warm with little temp range. They also have more areas where molds and bacteria build up...not a good thing either. A wood viv will get wet every day too.

 

[Texas Panther Man]

Not trying to argue. But being that he's in Uk a combo enclosure may work well for him. Do three sides in wood and the front screen with the top being screen also. I'd either put screen vents on the sides or I would drill small holes in the sides for extra ventilation. If you did the screened in vents you wouldnt have to worry about feeders escaping. As long as you sealed the entire wood frame and made a drainage system in the bottom it would last and I dont think it would be a soggy mess.