Time spent on Cham Care

[draetish]

I was just wondering how much time we all spend tending to our little friends.

I spend about 1 1/2 hours everyday. In the morning between getting ready for work I spend about 30 minutes total. First turn on a lamp and uncover their cages. I wait for them to wake up and then turn on their lights and make sure everyone is ok. Finish getting ready for work and then fill up the drippers, feed, re-check everything before I hit the door.

When I come home from work I say hi to the hubby, dog, etc and off to spend time with my chams. I open their cage doors and check for poop and talk to them while making sure they look okay, moving around good, look alert, checking their eyes for dehydration, etc. Then I'll sit back away from them and just watch my little guys. Rocko will come to the cage door and I'll let him out sometimes to chill on his huge tree branch in the corner of the room. Cabo has a huge tree branch too. Then it's, empty the catch pans, check on the feeders and replenish their food and this all takes about an hour and then they're ready for bed. Winter days stink, they are too short.

How about ya'll?

 

[pssh]

Just the chameleons or the feeders too? Just the chameleons about an hour, with the feeders anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 hours depending on what needs to be done.

EDIT: Okay, I forgot I'm cutting up piles of veggies while the water warms, so it is probably more like 45 minutes divided between the morning and at night.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

Monday - Friday a minimum one and a half hours every morning before work. Lighting and most water, is auto..
Saturday - Sunday and Holidays/ days off a minimum 5 hours, but (most) some weekends can be 12 hours plus, days.

 

[draetish]

Oh yeah, I didn't even consider the weekends. That's when I really have the most fun, cleaning and stuff.

 

[draetish]

Monday - Friday a minimum one and a half hours every morning before work. Lighting and most water, is auto..
Saturday - Sunday and Holidays/ days off a minimum 5 hours, but (most) some weekends can be 12 hours plus, days.

OMG - you're the guy that just hatched 1,000+ crickets and all those babies, make cricket crack etc. WOW you get my vote!

 

[DJ Richey Rich]

I spend about 3-6 hrs a day between 2 chameleons They chill on my headphones while i mix and edit music likes to walk on keyboard keys. I hand feed them their crickets every day.

 

[laurie]

OMG - you're the guy that just hatched 1,000+ crickets and all those babies, make cricket crack etc. WOW you get my vote!

He would get your vote if you knew him Donna, he is a seriously nice guy. Still won't give me a parsons but other that that I nice guy.

 

[sandrachameleon]

I think I probably spend twice as much time tending to bugs than the chameleons themselves LOL
How long it takes depends how fast I move and how difficult my work day was! Sometimes I just sit there, looking at them, delaying the grunt work. Here's my chore list: https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/185-chameleon-related-chores.html

 

[Crazy Pet Lady]

Wow!! Am I doing something wrong?????? I spend probably about 15 min. per day. I'm only keeping one cham but this seems about right. He wakes up and I fill the mister and feed him. Make sure the dripper is full....check to make everything is OK... That's about it....

 

[jojackson]

Just my cham, likewise about 15 mins a day. Lights are automated, I turn on the dripper, have a brief clean, ready some food, come back an hour or so later and feed.
Spend an hour every weekend (boring sunday) totally cleaning out the cage.
The bugs and all the other reptiles though, amount to about 2+ hrs daily, most of sundays are cleaning and doing the bugs.

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

Currently I work anywhere between 40-72hrs. a week at my job and I still feel like I spend more time on my chams. I recently got a second job that is replacing my first job. I'm doing government work at medical marijuana clinics. And getting payed very well to do what I used to do for 10+years. I grew out of that but its something super easy for me to do, it legal for me now, and it supports my chameleons addiction. Obviously I do not spend more time on them than work because that would be insane but I'd say anywhere between 3-4hrs. on week days and 5+ on weekends. Basically I get up at 3am, go to work, come home for 3 hrs from 12pm-3pm, do a bunch of watering/feeding/cleaning/feeder stuff, Go back to work, come home and tuck them in. On weekends I spend almost all my time with them. I am completely obsessed with them. I only have 12 adult panther and a few juveniles here and there. I feel like I should spend more time with them but I run out of things to do on the day after cleaning day and take a little break. Honestly I could feed and water and clean u their poop all day if I had the time. They are like mini tree dinosaurs with the perfect colorations. I could talk about them all day.



Justin


EDIT: The only feeders I actually like spending time on are stick bugs, mantis, and silkworms. The mantis are like little pets that you feed your pets. They can be tamed and become handleable very easily. I've had a couple adult females come to the top to come get fed by me just like the chams do

 

[Syn]

Between my two chameleons, spot cleaning, weekend full cleans, rotating plants and watering plants, etc.. an hour a day, up to 2 hours a weekend? Maybe I'm off, I'm bad with time.

 

[justjumpit621]

For Molly I spend about an hour and a half a day and for the feeders about 2 minutes a day =)

 

[dmaizer]

i spend about 1 1/2 hours on weekdays, and 2 1/2 + on weekend between 2 chams and feeders.

 

[xanthoman]

i spend about 1hr a day, (not including forums or emails). 1.3.3+5 (all xanths, of course)

 

[PardalisGirl]

40 hours a week...........

I spend about the equivalent of a full time job on the chams, geckos and feeders. Just the feeders takes 1/2 per day. I'm a late night person and work cleaning cages (especially Crested Gecko cages) on and off after hubby falls asleep about 9:00..........He's asleep on the couch as I type. Can't blame him though. He worked in the real world today

 

[awh53]

as i am not working i spend most of my day with all my reptiles
2 bearded dragons, 2 leopard geckos and my veiled chameleons i am even now wtching them as all my vivs are in with my computer its the warmest room in the house
cant wait for the weather to warm up so i can take them outside

 

[weezyboi94]

about 30 mins a day, since i keep my cham outside and only visit to feed and mist her as well as the regular cleanup.

 

[dmatera]

I would say ~15-30min in the morning while getting ready for work since the lights and misters are on timers. About 30min-1hr at night just tending to various tasks, feeding and showering 3x per week. Not to mention the countless hours just sitting and watching!

0.1 Ambanja

 

[Syn]

I spent 4 hours yesterday cleaning cages! Oof!