Adult male veiled who is extremely territorial today.... This morning he lunged at me several times when I was putting his feeding cup in the cage and then I get this text from my fiancee...
I think he needs an intervention with Dr. Phil....
Currently in the process of making a feeder cup and some brackets for plant pots camouflaged to look like vines/plants. I just want to make sure that hot glue would be safe to use in the enclosure to secure screen to the feeder and vegetation/ corkbark to the brackets.
If not, are there any...
There's quite a bit of issues with the set up besides the acouple things I already pointed out.
The other thing that caught my eye was misting. 12 minutes every hour is a lot. 5 minute listings 3 times or so every day is more beneficial. Higher humidity at night, lowe
Dust plain calcium daily all feeders, dust calcium with D3 twice per month and dust multivitamin twice per month.
Ditch the ceramic heat emitter. Let night time temps drop since it helps their metabolism. Use a normal house incandescent bulb for daytime heat.
Uvb lighting should be...
Use distilled water. Tap and bottled water will kill them due to the minerals in the water. Indirect light most of the day and keep the soil moist but not saturated. If the dew on the sundew is not visible it's either been eating well or something like lighting, water or humidity is lacking.
Bare bottom enclosures are way easier to clean. That bark gets super moldy in a chameleon set up with all the misting and humidity.
Best bet unfortunately would be going with a screen cage and drilling the floor for a drainage system. Glass is a pain to drill if you've never done it before...
Hes tried but its been months since I've seen it. Anything new in the enclosure that he may have never seen before he goes to "taste test". Only thing I haven't seen him try to take a bite out of were the plant pots.
All makes sense. I've never seen my veiled spit anything out though. Generally, if it fits in his mouth or he can take a bite out of it, he eats it... I learned quick to make sure everything is safe for him in his enclosure lol
I currently have one 5 gallon freshwater fish tank, too many tarantulas to count (last I checked I was at 20ish until one female made an egg sack.... Now I have close to 50 spiderlings I'm trying to sell off), 1 leopard gecko going on 14 years old, 2 guinea pigs, 4 dart frogs, and Kyle the...
Id put your UVB fixture right on top of the screen cage top. UVB loses strength with distance and the screen will be blocking a good amount as is. With the screen, the UVB will only be beneficial down about 6-8 inches depending on what strength bulb you are using so every inch counts. The UVB...
Read this: https://www.chameleonschool.com/chameleon-has-white-crust/
Usually due to the minerals in your water source or multivitamin. Filtered, distilled, or RO water can help reduce or eliminate this if the current water source is the cause.
Posting your supplements and schedule will be...