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I live in Sonoma County, which is about an hour north of San Francisco. It is fairly chilly here.

My chameleon has been insisting on eating sand for the past week, since we put a sand tray in her enclosure. The tray is only about two or three inches deep, but we suspect that she may be gravid, so we are keeping it in there until we get a bigger sand container. She used to eat dirt from our...

This is fantastic advice. Gonna switch my bulb to a 60-watt. I live in Sonoma County, it can get fairly chilly but it rarely drops below 60 degrees. Should I buy a 500-pack or a 1000-pack of crickets?

Thanks, Ace! Do you have any sites that you would recommend for cricket delivery? Also, is there anyone who raises crickets? Like, keeps enough of them that they can feed them to the chameleon and still have enough adult crickets laying eggs that you can have a self-refreshing supply of crickets?

Also, a thousand seems like a lot of crickets. How do they sell those? Do you just refrigerate some of those?

This is good information. I have read through the list and it seems like the only problems with husbandry I have right now are the amount I feed her, and possibly the basking light. It says that female veiled chameleons never need basking lights? This seems strange. Can I get a verification on...

So how many crickets per trip to the store should I buy? Also, can I get a second opinion on the gravid thing?

Female veiled chameleon, about five months old. Owned it for two weeks. I handle her about two times a week. I feed my chameleon large mealworms and small crickets. I feed the mealworms bran, and the crickets fresh lettuce and carrots. On a normal day, she eats about eight or nine crickets. I...

Damn, that is expensive. Ah well, better than having her starve. Also, I am not actually sure that she is five months old, just a rough estimate. Here are some pictures of her (Apologies for the poor image quality): Next to my hand, for size reference. Still not entirely sure how old she is...

I have a ~5 month old female chameleon who I purchased three weeks ago. I had to wean her off of the mealworms that they fed her at the lame store I got her at, but now that she is eating medium- to large-sized crickets, it seems that she will eat as many as I put in the enclosure. What is a...

She has been contorting herself a fair bit, it would seem. She has also been very hungry today, it's only 2 and she's alreay eaten maybe seven or eight crickets. In addition to this, she has been more aggressive than usual. Several times within the past few days she has hissed when I put my hand...

My chameleon does not have lumps above her back legs like I am seeing on most gravid chameleons, nor does she have yellow patches on her sides, but I have noticed her moving about a fair amount on the floor of the enclosure, especially on the dish full of moist sand that I have prepared should...

Mk, thanks. I only use hot water for spraying, it comes out lukewarm. And she did just shed recently, so that's probably the case. Also, that's 10-15 crickets a day? Do subadults usually eat that many?

I have seen my chameleon scratching her head against a piece of wood a few times today- seems there is something itchy on either her cask or her eye. What is this? Information sheet: Female veiled chameleon, about five months old. Owned it for two weeks. I handle her about two times a week...

Thanks for the advice, just put a bunch of rocks in there.

I recently removed the substrate from my enclosure in response to the numerous comments about the dangers of molds and the possibility of my chameleon ingesting substrate. I have still seen her eating dirt from the two ficus that I have in the enclosure, though. When she does this I stop her...

I have had my chameleon for two weeks now, and this weekend she just shed her skin for the first time in my presence. On the second day we got her, she got a burn on her left side that was about a centimeter in diameter, and now the only part of the shed skin that is still attached to her is...

Thanks, ferret, that's great advice!

The fogger sounds cool, but is also fairly expensive. Would it work to just put an unbleached, uncolored towel in there with her on the bottom of the enclosure and make that moist? Also, what are the reccomended temperatures and humidities during the day and at night?

Thanks for the information! Going to remove the substrate tomorrow, and purchase a calcium powder without D3. Also, I have seen her ingesting substrate, but we were told by the pet store that that is only natural- although by now I am doubting their credibility. How should we keep the enclosure...