will this work?

ok so i have recently made a new cage it is 24" x 22" x 34".
I am planning on buying a juvenile male panther approximately 7months old around 8" in length. will this cage be big enough for him?


that is a full view of the whole cage, the top of the cage is about 6ft above ground, i have a mistking setup on there.


this is the foliage in the cage


and the basking spot at 88 degrees farenheit

He wil be in heaven, plenty big enough. Nice job on the cage!

Nick

If the cage were on the floor, the answer would be "No". But you can cheat with cage size so long as it is up off the floor, as yours is, so that the male chameleon can be eye level (or slightly higher) to you. Nice craft-work, btw

thank you, i am only 14 and learned all i did from my dad. any advice on what we shouyld do to maybe help the cage be more suitable for him?

Grantman ...

Well, my kudos to your Dad ! I see a small blue bowl which appears to be positioned to collect water. Proper watering, in my experience, and looking at that bowl (and your floor), might create more run-off than you're currently set-up to manage. The proof will be "in the pudding", but the solution to run-off is not to cut back on watering, should that become an issue. Chameleons need lots of substantial water access. So if it becomes an issue, hopefully you can manage it with a larger collection container, minor retro-fitting, etc. And if its not a problem, 7 years from now, you owe your Dad a beer ! Jim

Chameleon Company said:

Well, my kudos to your Dad ! I see a small blue bowl which appears to be positioned to collect water. Proper watering, in my experience, and looking at that bowl (and your floor), might create more run-off than you're currently set-up to manage. The proof will be "in the pudding", but the solution to run-off is not to cut back on watering, should that become an issue. Chameleons need lots of substantial water access. So if it becomes an issue, hopefully you can manage it with a larger collection container, minor retro-fitting, etc. And if its not a problem, 7 years from now, you owe your Dad a beer ! Jim

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when u said the floor, did u mean the floor that the cage is on or the bottom of the cage area he will be kept in?

ooo wait nvm, i get it haha sorry. the collection bowl that is there now w=is just to see if it will work, yes i have almost a 10gallon tub that will be collecting access water. idk if u saw in the pictures above, but under the pot there is a lid under the pot so that crickets cant get under the bowl and in the lid is holes so the water that ends up at the bottom of the pot drips down through the bottom of the cage and into the bowl to collect accesss water

He is talking about the actual cage floor. My chams are all in about the size cage you made. Males get a 24 x 24 x 36. The problem is if water is misting seveal times a day, as it should be, you will need more of a place for the water to go. My set up would ruin the lovely looks of your set up but what I do is cut a 10' piece of 3" PVC into legs for my cages that are 6" high. After I drilled holes in the floor of the cage I put the legs under the cages and put a dish pan under the floor to catch the water. All I have to do is empty the dishpans at night before lights out. In addition to my automatic misters 3 times a day, I also have drippers on all my chams so I have a lot of water available to my animals and going into the dishpans.

You have a fantistic set up for your first chameleon, and at only 14, I am very impressed. Hope to hear more from you.

ok thank you, and im sure u will

Looks good! I personally think its too small for an adult though, so you might consider a larger cage in a few months. Better size cage for an adult panther, in my opinion, is 2 or 3 feet wide, 2 feet deep, 4 feet high.

I love this. I just started building one very similar last night. You are very talented.

thank you very much

sorry didn't read the entire thread... but be sure the lamps are on top of the cage... not projecting in from the side.

Looks good. props to your dad for teaching you well.

oooo ok, does the heat light have to be on top? iv seen many other cages when its being held to the side

when u said the floor, did u mean the floor that the cage is on or the bottom of the cage area he will be kept in?

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I actually meant the floor of the room, but should have been more clear. In considerations on managing run-off, some folks have chameleons and their cages in places where water going all the way to the floor is not a problem ... maybe its outside, on a patio, or inside but with a sloped and drained cement floor, etc. It seems that you have taken precautions to manage that flow. My advice to cage builders is to always start with drainage solutions first, then plan and build up from there, as its hard to retro-fit for poor drainage.

Nice work!!
Did you buy the posts or lathe them?

Chameleon Company said:

I actually meant the floor of the room, but should have been more clear. In considerations on managing run-off, some folks have chameleons and their cages in places where water going all the way to the floor is not a problem ... maybe its outside, on a patio, or inside but with a sloped and drained cement floor, etc. It seems that you have taken precautions to manage that flow. My advice to cage builders is to always start with drainage solutions first, then plan and build up from there, as its hard to retro-fit for poor drainage.

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actually that is in the garage, the cage will be in my room later on and i have ahrd wood flooring

Goggles said:

Nice work!!
Did you buy the posts or lathe them?

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we baught the posts but had to make them fit into the others, by drilling

grantman40 said:

oooo ok, does the heat light have to be on top? iv seen many other cages when its being held to the side

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All lights should be on top. facing down. To help the UVB get deeper in the cage using some aluminum foil as a reflector works well.

Check out this thread. Remember more not always better.... you want just enough.

ok i have the uvb on top. but i will now have the heat on top now also, thank you for the info.