If you’re worried about the price of husbandry, then chameleons aren’t the reptile you want to get involved with. Many spend thousands of dollars in their enclosures. I’m easily over $2000 invested. But I’d do it again in a second.
My Arcadia 6.0 reads 3.5 at about 4 inches, this is where my chameleon will tend to roam. You have to remember that it’s accumulative time under UVI as well. In the wild they are often in shade with only low levels of refractory UVI reaching them. In our enclosures, most areas receive good...