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[quarinteen]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Vielded about 2 months
Handling - about every other day
Feeding - crickes I keep them in a cricket thing feed them fruit covered in calcium power
Supplements - same calcium power i cover the cricket foos in
Watering - I mist and have a drip. I never see her drink/
Fecal Description - Brown and white pretty regualr never had her tested for paracites
History - not sure I have had her since 4 weeks
Cage Info:
Cage Type - I have one of these http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4070858
nut the next sze up and i keep the front open and the top offf most of the time
Lighting - I have one of these http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753959 I keep on most of the time. and one of these http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2752557 with a 5.0 uvb bulb i keep on about 10 hours a day
Temperature - 80 during the day mid 70 at night
Humidity - about 70% misting to create
Plants - no live all artificial
Placement - its in my living room no vents prestent
Location - kansas city
Current Problem - I have 2 I think she is small for 3 months I think she is about 4 inches also I was wondering if it was safe to keep her heat lamp on all night. It gets chilli so I keep it on low at night.

 

[jcarlo17]

make sure you use dust your crickets everyday with calcium and once every two weeks with calcium with d3 and then also multivitamins dusting every two weeks also. How cold does it get in your house at night? if its above 65 i would not worry chams need a temp drop at night. Also make sure ur heat lamp is not emitting light chams should have complete darkness at night because it messes up with the sleeping cycle. Hmmm and your chams not to small dont worry but it will outgrow that cage you got pretty quick. I hope you did your research and are aware that having a cham is almost like having a job slipping up on your responsibilities is bound to get your cham sick. Make sure you have misting about 3-5 times a day i spray the top of the cage and inside. Also i dont know if you have substrate i would not recommend it and make sure you dont leave the crickets your cham doesnt eat overnight. you should post a pic up of your set up if you want more tips and wat not

 

[quarinteen]

ive done reasearch on the environment. I get alot of mixed answers. I know for now the habitat is ok due to her size I also know when she gets larger I will have to change it. I am not worried about it. I am single and have plrny of time and money to play with, but what do you mean by substrate?

 

[jcarlo17]

substrate is that dirt stuff you might have got. And real plants help humidity another tip

 

[quarinteen]

no I dont have any dirt stuff, but if I was to have live plants how do you keep alive them with out any dirt stuff?

 

[Josh diegosuarez]

Just place large stones around and over the dirt in the plant pot


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[jcarlo17]

I had a small Pothos plant in a pot in my cage when i first got mine and you get some rocks to cover up the soil. The pothos seems to do well with the dripper and mistings so i recommend that plant if u want a live plant. Nothing wrong with having fake ones. I have both

 

[jcarlo17]

Also its recommended not to handle your cham so much when you first get him they usually need to get accustomed. My veiled is a grumyp lil dood i gradually got him out of his shell after a couple months

 

[quarinteen]

mine is very very social. she walks on to my finger when I open the cage.

 

[jcarlo17]

Nice your lucky

 

[quarinteen]

I never thought about it. I had a iguana from about 6 months till he passed at about 10 years old he was the same way. Loved attention....

 

[quarinteen]

he actually thought he was a dog i think lol

 

[Josh diegosuarez]

Lol


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[jcarlo17]

awesome how so

 

[quarinteen]

seriously he used to lay on his back on the couch and loved his belly scrached. he didnt have a cage so tp speak he had a room then he ate and pooped in the rest of the time he ran around the house. He was a very large lizard. Before he died he was at least 6 foot or so head to tail. His name was Norman after norman bates because when I first got him he use to charge the walls like a bull for no reason I thought he was crazy ... as he got bigger I found no reason to keep him locked up. He stayed out of trouble and loved roaming the house. He never pooped anywhere axcept where he was supposed to and his room was full of toys.

 

[quarinteen]

he also loved sitting in your lap and getting petted like a lap dog.

 

[jcarlo17]

doood thats awesome lol my day had a huge iguana tell he died two years ago