Midnighthwk
New Member
Veiled, male, born Nov 2010. been in my care since Jan 2011
Handling - shower time 2x a week 15 mins in shower backspray. after shower he clings to to me for a bit before he will go back in his cage
Feeding - crickets, superworms, greens ( collared, mustard ) he mostly likes his ficus, fruits i am still working on finding one he will eat. 10 in the morning and 10 when the sun go's down ( full size ), 2-3 superworms a day, he wont eat anything small
How are you gut-loading your feeders? Wardley reptile sticks, fluker's high calc cricket food, tetrafin goldfish flakes, fluker's river shrimp, fluker's meal worms, zoo med juvenile bearded dragon frrod all blended together in a blender. collared greens, bananas + peels, apples, honeydew mellon + rine, ornges + peels
Supplements -zoo med's reptivite reptile vitamins without d3 75% of crickets per feeding daily, tetrafauna reptocal +d3 2x a month till he is older, zilla food spray vitamin supplement 1x a week till he gets older
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? heavey hand mist 3 times daily till everything is dripping, dripper 24/7 Do you see your chameleon drinking? in shower yes, out of shower a few times
Fecal Description -1 part white, 1 part dark, just gets bigger the bigger he gets.
tested for parasites? yes
Cage Info:
Cage Type - screen 2'x2'x3', building a 3'x3'x6' right now
Lighting - (100w for winter)75w house light to bask, 9am- between 10-11pm also direct sunlight about 2 hours a day
Temperature - (cage floor 70 to basking spot 85 )? Lowest overnight temp 65 How do you measure these temps? petco pos ones in random spots and 3 digital, 1 hooked up to a heater in my room for at night ( its winter and 20 outside at night and my window sucks)"
Humidity - 40 % at the lowest right under the basking light ( 3 inches from light ) he basks lower than that though around 60% -65% about the rest. 85% when misting
How are you creating and maintaining these levels? 10 live plants in the curent cage and many around my room, dripper and misting. What do you use to measure humidity? 2 cheap ones from petco and a digi one for my room
Plants - 5 ficus, 1 umbrella, 4 jade in the cage, more about my room. growing a pampus to see how it is before letting him check it out
Placement - farthest cornor away from the house heating vent.
At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? this cage 5 feet, new cage 7 1/2 feet
Location - nw oregon- cage far corner from heat vent
Trafic: verry low, 80% just me, he doesnt care anymore, anyone else he hides if they get within 8 feet of his cage
Flooring: paper towls to collect xtra water and cleaned every 2 days, poop every day
is they grey from uvb or from the basking light?
i want to say its from the zilla light cuz i stoped using it a few days ago and he is looking much happier and color is returning to his head
and how long is "safe" without proper uvb cuz i have a really old reptisun (8-12months use) that i can use if sittin in the window isnt enough for now.
was using zilla uvb lights but someone said they were no good. i was only using them cuz my good ones broke on the move from cali to oregon and they didnt have the ones i wanted. 36''-48''
untill the reptisun are in stock i been using my "grow" lights whick make my plants unhappy but i can clone more if they die. no not weed plants, tigerbark maple, laceleaf maples, snakebark maples, willows, 9 bark, umbrella plants, ficus, jade, some fern i dont remember name, and some others
Handling - shower time 2x a week 15 mins in shower backspray. after shower he clings to to me for a bit before he will go back in his cage
Feeding - crickets, superworms, greens ( collared, mustard ) he mostly likes his ficus, fruits i am still working on finding one he will eat. 10 in the morning and 10 when the sun go's down ( full size ), 2-3 superworms a day, he wont eat anything small
How are you gut-loading your feeders? Wardley reptile sticks, fluker's high calc cricket food, tetrafin goldfish flakes, fluker's river shrimp, fluker's meal worms, zoo med juvenile bearded dragon frrod all blended together in a blender. collared greens, bananas + peels, apples, honeydew mellon + rine, ornges + peels
Supplements -zoo med's reptivite reptile vitamins without d3 75% of crickets per feeding daily, tetrafauna reptocal +d3 2x a month till he is older, zilla food spray vitamin supplement 1x a week till he gets older
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? heavey hand mist 3 times daily till everything is dripping, dripper 24/7 Do you see your chameleon drinking? in shower yes, out of shower a few times
Fecal Description -1 part white, 1 part dark, just gets bigger the bigger he gets.
tested for parasites? yes
Cage Info:
Cage Type - screen 2'x2'x3', building a 3'x3'x6' right now
Lighting - (100w for winter)75w house light to bask, 9am- between 10-11pm also direct sunlight about 2 hours a day
Temperature - (cage floor 70 to basking spot 85 )? Lowest overnight temp 65 How do you measure these temps? petco pos ones in random spots and 3 digital, 1 hooked up to a heater in my room for at night ( its winter and 20 outside at night and my window sucks)"
Humidity - 40 % at the lowest right under the basking light ( 3 inches from light ) he basks lower than that though around 60% -65% about the rest. 85% when misting
How are you creating and maintaining these levels? 10 live plants in the curent cage and many around my room, dripper and misting. What do you use to measure humidity? 2 cheap ones from petco and a digi one for my room
Plants - 5 ficus, 1 umbrella, 4 jade in the cage, more about my room. growing a pampus to see how it is before letting him check it out
Placement - farthest cornor away from the house heating vent.
At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor? this cage 5 feet, new cage 7 1/2 feet
Location - nw oregon- cage far corner from heat vent
Trafic: verry low, 80% just me, he doesnt care anymore, anyone else he hides if they get within 8 feet of his cage
Flooring: paper towls to collect xtra water and cleaned every 2 days, poop every day
is they grey from uvb or from the basking light?
i want to say its from the zilla light cuz i stoped using it a few days ago and he is looking much happier and color is returning to his head
and how long is "safe" without proper uvb cuz i have a really old reptisun (8-12months use) that i can use if sittin in the window isnt enough for now.
was using zilla uvb lights but someone said they were no good. i was only using them cuz my good ones broke on the move from cali to oregon and they didnt have the ones i wanted. 36''-48''
untill the reptisun are in stock i been using my "grow" lights whick make my plants unhappy but i can clone more if they die. no not weed plants, tigerbark maple, laceleaf maples, snakebark maples, willows, 9 bark, umbrella plants, ficus, jade, some fern i dont remember name, and some others