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I think you can just about make it out in the picture but I should have mentioned it👍 If I'm honest I'm not entirely happy with the whole drainage situation. I'm trying to find a tall cabinet to put it on that will allow me to use a bulkhead type set up and have drainage buckets in the cabinet...

You asked if I could turn it round so the t shaped vents were at the bottom, there's already a t shaped vent at the bottom at the back as well as the ventilated rails at the front. The water doesn't sit on the wood at bottom, I have made a tray with double wall polycarbonate that keeps the...

There's another of those t shaped vents at the bottom too. I don't keep the glass doors all the way closed, I leave a wee gap at either side for a bit of extra air flow during the day and then close when I'm fogging at night to keep the humidity in. I use RO water for fogging and misting...

Why would I do that?

Solid on 3 sides, glass front and mostly mesh top.

Added a wee btanching structure to give him more places to climb and hide. I have a big pothos plant coming soon to give him some added coverage over the "tree" I've made him. I've also swapped my UVB Light from an arcadia 8w 7% to an arcadia pro t5 22w 6% uvb fixture. He's still not eating...

I think its 2x2x3, its the exo terra Viva+ Chameleon Vivarium. This isn't his final enclosure though, I'll increase the size as he grows.

There are live plants as well as the plastic ones👍 I'm still looking for ideas to add more branches, I'll need to have some sort of central structure I just haven't found yet right piece of wood yet.

Hi everyone, we're now on day 8 of owning our first ever chameleon. Just wanted to share a couple of photos that I've taken today and ask if he looks like he's doing OK so far? He's usually very dark and spends most of his time basking (basking spot temp is 26.5°-27°). He doesn't eat as much...

Yeah you're right, I've bought this one and it's coming on Thursday, I'll just sell the smaller one! Can you just confirm this is the right one please?

If I added an arcadia Heat plus UvA bulb would that mean that the uvb light I have would be OK?

I'm on it, just trying to find the right piece of wood for a central structure.

The UvB unit sits 27cm above the branch. It's only an 8w unit until the bigger one comes so will I need to keep it a bit closer for now? Yeah I would like more branches but struggling to find anything big enough. Hadn't thought about building a frames system, that's a good idea! No there's no...

I've got a whole new 22w Arcadia unit coming this week. This one I have is only the 8w one and I couldn't find 6.0 bulb for it. It's probably not powerful enough anyway. I took your advice and cut a hole in the top of this new enclosure, there are now no lights inside the enclosure and the...

OK cool, thanks for all your help! The heat lamp will sit above the mesh openening on the top so its just the uvb thats a problem! Is my fixture itself OK if I can find a 6% bulb to fit it?

On it👍 I've got a big Swiss cheese plant ready to be added to the new enclosure and I'm still looking to add more, if there's any other specific types you'd suggest that would be great!

The top has a mesh section to place the heat light above it but doesn't have anywhere for a t5 uvb, it comes with fittings to place the uvb unit inside. Would a Mercury vapour all in one type bulb work better for this or should I really try to cut a bigger hole in the top to have the uvb...

The new vivarium has just arrived, could you or anyone else please explain why this Arcadia 7% uvb is not good? It's all I've got at the moment, I'll have to order a different one if this is no use. Surely uvb is uvb though? Some people use 10% so why would 7 be so bad?

Oh and before anyone panics, that's 34 degrees celcius! I'm Scottish so can't work in °f 😂

Yeah I'm happy to do that. One mistake I will admit to making straight away is the enclosure itself, I was looking at vivariums and saw on reddit someone had used an ikea cabinet to create an enclosure. I really liked the look of it so I bought one and set it up. I hate it and the bars inside...