Hi and welcome!
You’ve been given great advice and hopefully are setting up a lay bin for your pretty girl. I’d like to comment on the things I see in your pics that need some improvement. I hate that I’m going to sound so negative, but I truly want to help you and your cham have many happy and healthy years together. Many of us started where you are (including myself).
Let me start out by just sounding like a jerk and get it over with - you need to make some big improvements in lights, plants, substrate and branches…basically a major upgrade to everything in your enclosure. Now let me return to being helpful.
Your lights - the biggest problem is you are lacking the correct uvb. It appears you have the screw in bulb kind which isn’t able to provide the uvb levels your girl needs any farther away than 2-3”. The standard is a linear T5HO fixture with either ReptiSun 5.0 or Arcadia 6% uvb bulb. Then your chameleon will get the ideal uvb level at a basking area about 8-9” below the light and have a nice gradient of levels to choose from. Correct uvb is essential in preventing metabolic bone disease. Although currently sold out, here is the correct light.
https://www.pangeareptile.com/colle...r/products/arcadia-prot5-6-uvb-bulb-with-hood or
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5HXI2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The dome fixture is great for your basking light, which should be probably a 60-75w bulb. In the other side you can put a plant grow light like one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRKG7X1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You will need to get rid of the red light. All colored lights can be harmful to sensitive chameleon/reptile eyes.
Now about that plant light….Your sweet girl needs safe live plants and a good amount of them. Our veileds love to nibble their plants and really have no clue about plastic or silk vs real leaves. It only takes one nibble of a fake leaf to cause an intestinal blockage, which is usually a serious problem.
https://chameleonacademy.com/plants/ will help you to determine which plants are safe and veiled tested. I would suggest getting a tall plant like a schefflera or weeping fig for the center and have pothos around it. Pothos and philodendron are great plants for chameleons. Hanging them is a challenge and many have gotten very creative with garden trellis, crafting little scaffolding, stands, etc. I’m not all that creative so I’ve used these.
https://dragonstrand.com/dragon-ledges/ Once you’ve removed and replaced all of those fake plants, you can hang them on the outside of the enclosure to give your girl a sense of more privacy.
You also need to add many more branches and vines for your girl to travel. All of that empty space is wasted space. I use branches I’ve scavenged outside. I give a little scrub with dish soap, rinse very well and dry in the sun.
You’ll want to clean up and get rid of all that you have on the enclosure floor. Unless truly bioactive, it’s best to keep the floor bare…much easier to keep clean and hygienic. There are better ways to deal with excess drainage, like filling up with thirsty plants.
For a lay bin, that is something you’ll want to keep as a permanent part of your enclosure. I use opaque plastic bins that are at least 12” long and wide and also deep. I drill several tiny holes on the bottom for drainage and fill to about 6” deep with washed play sand. Once the bin is set in place, the sand won’t leak out the drain holes. I put at least 2 stable ways to get in/out and try to keep some plant cover in front of it. I keep a light sheet next to my enclosures so when it looks like one of my girls might be nearing laying time, I can easily tack it up to cover the lower half of her enclosure. Privacy is absolutely essential for a cham who is digging and laying eggs.
I’m attaching some pics below to give you some ideas of what I’ve done with setting up an enclosure. The second pic is when I was just learning and in the process of making changes. I’m adding it as it’s the best pic I have to show my lay bin placement and how we evolve.
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Let’s talk about parameters and supplements. I’ll try to be less wordy.
