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Please bear with me while I worry about every little thing....Is this a newbie phase or is part of good chameleon keeping the inevitable paranoia that any little environmental factor could bring death? There's no shortage of posts here worrying about how to bring up humidity in these screened...

I've still been feeding him right off a piece of egg crate. I'm going to have to think about how to add the dusting process. Sprinkle directly on the insects and the egg crate prior to placing it in the cage, or collecting the roaches, dusting, and returning them to the egg crate. I'm sure...

I would like to dust the roaches, but I'm concerned as he doesn't always eat as many as I put in there, or he may shun them entirely some times when I offer them. If I return a dusted roach to its bin, I wonder if it will have any ill effects on the roach. He eats them eventually.

I've been feeding the larvae pretty regularly. Bought a tub of 250 earlier this month, and was surprised yesterday to see a few flies starting to emerge within the cup they came in. Norman definitely approves of the flies as well. He doesn't like the worms once they turn dark so I'm just...

I could go higher than 48, but I'd like to keep the bottom elevated off the floor 30 inches or so so the cats and dogs wandering by are less threatening, and i need to be able to reach the top, too

No help on this out there?

Fair question Panthro413. Since Norman resides in our living room, it's important to me that his space is aesthetically pleasing and uncluttered at the same time as being practical for his comfort. In his main living space there are branches and plants pretty much throughout, and even if...

So I'm super excited to have discovered the Kalanuanu IV tubing dripper hack, and now I have myself a dripper! Question now is: should I keep the dripper dripping 24/7, or shut off at night?

Your chameleon must be in heaven with all that space. I'd like to go a little bigger but I do have some limitations to work within, and I'm limited also in what commercial brands are offering in size. Someday perhaps I'll make a custom build so I can work better within the dimensions I have...

Oh wow, this is brilliant. I don't have a dripper at all, but I took it one step further and used the entire IV system. I took an empty bag of IV fluid, rinsed it out and cut a slit near the top of the bag, into which I poured distilled water. Plugged in the IV tubing, stuck the dripping end...

wow, that's a lot of space! What's the height in your enclosure?

Right now my guy is still pretty medium sized and I have him in a 36" high, 24" wide and 18" deep screen enclosure. Most recommended a 24x24x48 for the adult males to be comfortable in, but I needed the depth to be less and got the biggest I could find at an 18" depth. Looking at it and...

Do the chams tend to eat the springtails or the little potato bug looking things? They look like they might be delicious, and I don't want Norman eating any substrate trying to get to them.

Do you all dust every insect or just crickets? I've just been dusting crickets, which have been the main staple thus far. I don't think I need to dust BSF larvae since they have a good ratio, but what about bottle fly larvae and the adult flies? Roaches? Silkworms? Waxworms? Thanks in advance.

Still hates me, but trusts me enough to eat a waxworm from my palm now! Those waxworks must be truly delicious!

Its true, he's no adult. and I just realized today this method will make it hard to dust. I didn't dust yesterday as we were still trying out for taste, lol.

I'm actually feeding my first batch of dubias at the moment. Norman ate one in a cup right off the bat then seemed to lose interesting them, since they don't move around a whole lot in there. Since they seemed so inactive on their little egg crates, and I was too lazy to fish them out one at a...

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I have my basking bulb in a large lamp which keeps the bulb about 5 inches above the top of my chams cage. His highest basking branch was about 3 inches below the top of his cage. I have a little probe thermometer that I've tied around the branch, and sometimes the probe tip gets bumped and...