ABbuggin
New Member
Hi there every body. I'm new to chameleons so naturally I have some questions. (if it helps with the answers, I'm getting veilds)
1. Do I let the water dripper run all day and turn it off at night, or does it run 24hrs.?
2. Is it ok if I have a container to collect excess water from the dripper?
3. How many hours of lighting is good for chameleons? I'll be keeping them in my bug room (which has no times for lights), so I need to know what to set my lights to.
4. Is it ok to feed my chameleons wild caught food? ie. butterflies, moths, grasshoppers etc, only herbivore insects NOT decomposes (I already catch a lot for my mantids, I was just curious)
5. How varied should their diet be? I already get 1000's of blue bottle flies a month to feed my mantids, I've got a lobster roach colony, several fruitfly cultures (would be good for babies I guess) and I was planning on getting mealworms. This is what I was planning on feeding them in the winter months as long as wild caught food was fine.
That's all I can think of for now, but they were questions that I couldn't find answers to on any of the care sheets.
Thanks!
1. Do I let the water dripper run all day and turn it off at night, or does it run 24hrs.?
2. Is it ok if I have a container to collect excess water from the dripper?
3. How many hours of lighting is good for chameleons? I'll be keeping them in my bug room (which has no times for lights), so I need to know what to set my lights to.
4. Is it ok to feed my chameleons wild caught food? ie. butterflies, moths, grasshoppers etc, only herbivore insects NOT decomposes (I already catch a lot for my mantids, I was just curious)
5. How varied should their diet be? I already get 1000's of blue bottle flies a month to feed my mantids, I've got a lobster roach colony, several fruitfly cultures (would be good for babies I guess) and I was planning on getting mealworms. This is what I was planning on feeding them in the winter months as long as wild caught food was fine.
That's all I can think of for now, but they were questions that I couldn't find answers to on any of the care sheets.
Thanks!