New Custom Cage
Im a new member here, but I've been keeping chameleons for quite some time.
This is a custom hybrid breeder cage from Dragon Strand. I contacted Bill Strand (Great guy!)
and he helped me get what I had in mind.
It is 5ft tall, 23.75 in wide, and 23 in deep.
It is sitting on a 24x24 in planter that is 20 in tall.
the floor of the enclosure is planted with:
Schefflera
Pothos
Parlor Palm
Spider plant
babytears
On the inside back, I glued a flora felt living wall planter, with a reservoir from amazon.com. It has a total of 8 pockets. I did not want to experiment with 'nice' plants so I just planted 6 various types of pothos and 2 large bromeliads.
Also, 6 magnaturals small planters, with small bromeliads.
For the vines, i used 2 large and 2 small eco terra vines, in which i twisted them together. Also used 8 kammerflage chameleons (chameleonsonly.com) branches. GREAT quality!
The top section also has 4 grapwood bird branches, that a 'screwed' on the dragon strand hybrid shelves.
There are zoo med cork backgrounds siliconed to the sides. for decoration and increase humidity.
Im using a mist-king, currently there is only one single nozzle, but ill be adding a quad unit, to ensure that the whole cage get 'wet'. The mist-king water reservoir is a 44 gallon, brute container, to ensure that the cage can sustain itself for a long period of time. As I do travel a lot.
Lighting: I purchased Arcadia bulbs and domes from lightyourreptiles.com
Todd, is the most helpful and informative person to speak to in regards t lighting, and his products (Arcadia) are truly amazing.
100W mercury vapor bulb
75W halogen bulb
12% uvb.
and the uvb fixture is the zoomed UVB/LED fixture.
My chameleon, is an adult male nosy be panther.
P.S.
I used the arcadia uvb on my chameleons previous cage, and honestly noticed a difference within hours after installing the bulb.
Pics, are uploaded on other thread
https://www.chameleonforums.com/off...re-thread-2-post-your-pics-94781/index28.html
page, 28. I couldn't re-upload the same pictures.