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Yeah, same here. No idea why I didn't buy from private breeders, I guess because this was my first chameleon and I was PetCo's target audience- uneducated, inexperienced pet owners.

Feel free to use the thread, I got my questions answered. Guess once I get the digital thermometer I will just mess with different bulb wattages until I get one that works. Yikes, I had problems with Petco too. They are just the worst at keeping pets.

Ooh, why didn't I think of Radioshack? Of course! There's a radioshack ten minutes from where I live, I'll stop by there as soon as I get some cash. Beautiful chameleon, by the way. How old is she? Also, I have a 100W basking light, but it gets crazy hot. Apparently it is double reflective, so...

He seems like a Herbert or a Herb to me.

Thanks for your responses, will use a shoe box.

My family will be moving to a different house in a little under a month, and I was wondering how I should transport my seven-month-old female veiled chameleon. The drive between the two houses is not particularly long- she would only be in the car for about half an hour. Should I just get an...

Thanks, Mini! Jo, 70F is room temperature. To achieve a 50F temp gradient I would need to utilize a heat lamp and a refrigerator.

But you were talking about temperature as a quantity, a specific difference between two values in the particular gradient, not a particular temperature.

F=(9/5)C+32. I will agree, though. Thank you for your help.

When I walk in on her, she is usually in her basking spot, with that same coloration. It is easily differentiable from her stress coloration, which is a very dark solid grey. You said I needed to get a temperature difference of about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This seems somewhat ridiculous. What...

When she is not basking she is a normal dark green color scheme. What does slough mean? She has been dark around the basking light since I got her. I just had a thought, though. When we bought supplies we were pretty dumb about it, did not do as much research as we should have and didn't know...

Nope, doesn't look like that. Just looks like she's been desaturated in photoshop. Also, the basking light and the UV light are right next to each other.

What about that picture should I be looking for in my chameleon?

I think what dagy is saying is that, as pet owners, we are not trying to create natural circumstances. You would not see me putting a snake in the cage with my veiled chameleon. We are giving them the best possible circumstances to ensure that they survive. If chameleons in the wild had the...

So you use a 125W for your female? What is the basking temperature there?

By definition two separate species cannot produce fertile offspring. Some, however, can produce infertile offspring, if their genitalia and general genetic makeup are similar enough. Mules and ligers are examples of this. The thing is, animals are designed not to be attracted to other species...

I have a 100W UVA basking bulb, but I don't like using it because it gets the basking spot really hot- up around 110. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by visual heat.

Sorry, I meant the wattage of the bulb you switched out and the one you replaced it with.

Can confirm that this is a real thing. Just a neat and expensive mutation in veiled chameleons. In addition to translucent veiled chameleons, there are also transbalds, which look like this:

Do you remember what the wattages were of the two bulbs you used were?