Tanning booth Chameleons?

[wheresstimpy]

So i had this weird idea today while at the vitamin store/tanning salon down the street, is there any reason you couldn't take your chameleon into the tanning booth with you for a few minutes to give them a uv burst?

What do ya think?

this was a purely hypothetical situation we were talking about at lunch, so please don't rant about the stress from handling, thank you...

 

[Sang]

sounds like a horrible idea.

 

[Zen Reptiles]

HAHA do they make chameleon tanning goggles????

I also think this isn't such a great idea.

The sun would be far better.

 

[wheresstimpy]

HAHA do they make chameleon tanning goggles????

I also think this isn't such a great idea.

The sun would be far better.

haha how funny would that be, just to clarify, i never plan on actually doing this, i just couldnt stop from thinking "is this what clyde does all day? hahaha

 

[Syn]

I wonder what cooked chameleon tastes like?

Bad idea.

 

[wheresstimpy]

I wonder what cooked chameleon tastes like?

like chicken?

 

[NewOwner]

Kinda smart thinkin bout this.

But i agree bad idea..

 

[wheresstimpy]

Kinda smart thinkin bout this.

But i agree bad idea..

it was great lunch topic, lol... but then again, we are a little out there...

and i know it seems like a bad idea but WHY it was a bad idea was more the topic of discussion, this was of course right after we talked about taking our boas to get massages, haha

 

[Dunnigan]

I think it would dammage their eyes, i mean humans wear protective eye wear when in them! Also a chameleons head is designed to shield their eyes from light above, not in every direction. I dont think it would cook them out anything, but i do thing that some eye damage would happen

 

[wheresstimpy]

problem solved

 

[Vegas Chad]

LMAO, love the pic! Good ~idea~ but at the same time not so much

 

[Dunnigan]

I actually laughed a little when i saw that

 

[codiwatkins]

I was actually thinking something to that sort today as well...I guess I would say realized that the bulbs we lay under are the same type a cham has to have to survive.....I looked at the watts on the bulb and it was 120

Yea....kinda crazy huh because we actually lay on at least 20 of those.........THATS ALOT OF WATTS....considering a cham only gets one 5 watt....MAYBE 10 watt at the most The things humans do to themselves......geesh!

 

[wheresstimpy]

I was actually thinking something to that sort today as well...I guess I would say realized that the bulbs we lay under are the same type a cham has to have to survive.....I looked at the watts on the bulb and it was 120

Yea....kinda crazy huh because we actually lay on at least 20 of those.........THATS ALOT OF WATTS....considering a cham only gets one 5 watt....MAYBE 10 watt at the most The things humans do to themselves......geesh!

the place i went into had these cool stand up tanning booths, and they had cages(perfect climbing size) covering the lights, and all i could think about was chameleons, lol.
but humans usually only go in for a few minutes at a time, where the chams are going to bask for long periods under the lower wattage... but then again, i have read on here about people taking uv meters and showing how underpowered some of our lights really are next to all natural uv from the sun.

 

[jojackson]

Artificial Uv lights are nowhere near the same as the sun. Natural uv has a perfect balance of uva and uvb wavelengths, and ozone helps reduce uvc, not so artificial sources, herein is the problem.
Different levels of certain wavelengths, particularly uvc are known to be damaging and reports of increased instances of skin cancers from tanning booths have been in recent news stories.
You just cant improve on nature, its one tough fact most herpers accept eventually.

 

[reptilemancan]

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LOL i can defanatily see a cham enyoying that lol!