a few pics of my cham xx

[darren]

hey there guys and gals jus thought i would post a few pics of my veiled little man (well he is not so little now) he is now 18 months old and is around 16 inches total length including tail . he is my first and only cham and i love him to bits...that is when he is not grumpy....which is very rare...i handle him and hand feed him quite alot...but this is completely on his terms !!!!! hope u enjoy the pics...any feedback is very appreciated !!!

 

[CammieNLeno]

He looks good!

I didn't see any live plants in there, do you have any?

 

[darren]

no i dont have any.....i have wanted some but dont know which ones are safe ....any suggestions...i live in the uk ....thankyou...

 

[CammieNLeno]

Here is a list of some plants that are safe for chameleons.

Safe Plants

Acacia
African Violets
Africian Daisy
Alyssum
Aluminum Plant
Aloe
Areca / Butterfly Cane
Asparagus Fern
Australian Umbrella Tree
Baby's Tears
Bachelor's Buttons
Ballon Flower
Bamboo
Bee Balm
Begonia
Bird Nest Fern
Bird of Paradise
Black-eyed Susan Vine
Blue Marquerite
Bottle Palm
Boston Fern
Bougainvillea
Bromeliads
Bush Cherry
Butterfly Bush
Cactus (Mostly non toxic except for pencil cactus, peyote/mescaline, candelabra cactus)
Calendula
Camellia
Canna Lily
Carpet Bugle
Chamomile
Chicory
Chickweed
China Doll
China Aster
Christmas Cactus
Cissus / Kangaroo Vines
Coffee Tree
Coleus
Comfreyy
Coral Bells
Corcus (Spring Blooming)
Corn Plant
Cosmos
Crabapple
Crap Myrtle
Creeping Charlie
Dahlia
Dandelion
Day Lilly
Dogwood
Donkey Tail / Burro's Tail
Dracaena Varieties
Dragon Tree
Easter Cactus
Gold Dust Dracaena
Elephant Foot Tree
Ferns:
Asparagus (Not A True Fern)
Bird Nest Fern
Boston Fern
Brake
Ribbon
Dish
Button
Motherfern
Maidenhair
Sword
Squirrel's Foot
Deer's Foot
Fiji
Polypody
Ball
Staghorn
Elk's Horn
Figs
.creeping
.rubber
.fiddle leaf
Figs
.laurel leaf
Gardenia
Gold Dust
Grape Hyacinth
Grape Ivy
Hawthorn
Honey Locust
Hen and Chickens
Hibiscus
Honeysuckle
Huckleberry
Impatiens
India Hawthorn
Jade Plant
Kalanchoe
Larch
Lipstick Plant
Lilac
Madagascar Dragon
Madagascar Jasime
Madagascar Lace Plant
Madrona
Magnolia
Mango (fruit)
Marigold
Maternity Plant
Monkey Plant
Moon Magic
Motherof Pearls
Mother-In-Laws Tongue
Mountain Ash
Nasturtium
Natal Plum
Nectarine
Nerve Plant
Norfolk Island Pine
Orchids
Oregano
Painted Needle
Palms:
Areca Bamboo
Bottle
Fern Date
European Fan
Fan
Fishtail
Howeia
Kentia
Lady
Parlour
Phoenix / Date Palm
Pony Tail Palm (Not A True Palm)
Pygmy Date
Rhapis
Roebelin
Sago (Not a true palm)
Sentry Palm
Pansies (Purple, white & yellow bi-color blooms are safe)
Parsley
Papaya
Passion Flower Vine
Peacock Plant
Peppermint
Peperomia
Petunia
Pilea
Piggyback Plant
Piggyback begonia
Pittosporum
Pink Polka Dot Plant
Polygonum Baldschuanicum
Pony Tail Palm (Not A Palm)
Prayer Plant
Prune
Purple Passion / Purple Nettle
Purple Tiger
Pyracantha (Ripe Berries Only)
Raspberry
Red-Margined Dracaena
Rose
Rubber Plant
Rubus Odoratus
Russian Vine
Sago Palm (Not a True Palm)
Sassafras
Schefflera (Umbrella)
Sedum
Sensitive Plant
Snake Plant
Spider Plant / Airplane Plant
Snowberry
Swedish Ivy
Tahitian Bridal Veil
Thanksgiving Cactus
Thistle
Thurlow
Thyme
Ti Plant
Toyon Tree / California
Wandering Jew
Wax Plant
White Clover
Velvet Plant / Purple Passion
Yucca
Zebra Plant
Zinnia
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[CammieNLeno]

and here is a list of NOT SAFE plants

NOT SAFE

Aconite (all parts)
African Boxwood
Agapanthus (sap)
Agave
Alacia
Amaryllis (bulbs)
American Yew (nedles, seed)
Anthurium
Apricot (pits)
Aralia
Arborvitae
Arrowhead Vine (leaves)
Arum Lily (all parts)
Autumn Crocus / Meadow Saffron (all parts)
Australian Flametree
Avocado
Azalea (leaves)
Balsam Pear (seeds,outer rind of fruit)
Baneberry (berries, roots)
Beans: (all types if uncooked)
Castor
Horse
Fava
Broad
Glory
Scarlet Runner
Mescal
Navy
Pregatory
Birch
Bird of Paradise (seed)
Bishop's Weed
Bittersweet Nightshade
Black Laurel
Black Locust (bark, sprouts, foliage)
Bleeding Heart / Dutchman's Breeches
Bloodroot
Bluebonnet
Bluegreen Algae (some forms toxic)
Boxwood (leaves, stems)
Bracken Fern
Broomcorn Grass
Buckthorn (fruit, bark)
Bulb Flowers:
Amaryllis Daffodil
Narcissus
Hyacinth
Iris
Burdock
Buttercup (sap, bulbs)
Bushman's poison
Cacao
Cactus (pencil, peyote/mescaline,candelabra)
Camel Bush
Castor Bean (beans, leaves)
Caladium (leaves)
Calla Lily (leaves)
Cana Lily
Candelabra Tree
Carnation
Cardinal Flower
Century Plant
Chalice Vine / Trumpet Vine
Challce Vine (all parts)
Cherry Tree (bark, twigs, leaves, pits)
China Berry Tree
Chinese Evergreen
Chinese Lantern
Chokecherry
Christmas Candle (sap)
Chrysanthemum
Clematis / Virginia Bower (all parts)
Clivia
Cocklebur
Coffee (Senna)
Coffee Bean / Rattlebush / Rattlebox & Coffeeweed
Columbine
Common Burdock
Copperleaf
Coral Plant (seeds)
Coriander
Corncockle
Cotoneaster
Coyotillo
Cowslip / Marsh Marigold (all parts)
Crape Myrtle
Crinum Lily
Crown of Thorns (sap)
Croton (sap)
Cyclamen
Cut leaf Philodendron
Daffodil (bulbs)
Daphne (berries)
Datura Stramoniun / Angel's Trumpet (berries)
Deadly Amanita (all parts)
Death Camus (all parts)
Delphinium (all parts)
Devil's Ivy
Dieffenbachia / Dumb Cane (leaves)
Dumb Cane
Dusty Miller
Easter Lily
Echium
Eggplant (Only fruit is safe)
Elderberry
Elephant Ear / Taro (leaves, stem)
English Ivy (berries, leaves)
English Laurel
Ergot
Eucalyptus
Euonymus / Spindle Tree (all parts)
Euphorbia Cactus
False Henbane (all parts)
Flame Tree
Felt Plant / Maternity / Air & Panda Plants
Figs: (if much is eaten these plants can make a bird ill)
Creeping
Edible
Fiddleleaf Fig
Laurel Leaf
Rubber Plant
Weeping
Firethorn / Pyracantha
Fishtail Palm
Flamingo Flower (leaves, stem)
Fly Agaric Mushroom / Deadly Amanita
Four O'Clock
Foxglove (leaves, seeds)
Foxtail Barley
Gladiolus
Glory Lily
Glory Bean
Glottidium
Golden Chain / Laburnum (all parts, especially seeds)
Gopher Plant
Grasses:
Johnson
Sorghum
Sudan
Broom Corn
Ground Cherry
Ground Ivy
Heather
Heaths:
Kalmia
Leucotho
Peires
Rhododenron
Mountain Laurel
Black Laurel
Andromeda
Azalea
Heliotrope
Hellebore
Hemlock (Poison in plant & water) (all parts, especially roots and seeds)
Henbane (seeds)
Holly (berries)
Honey Bush
Honey Locust
Horse Chestnut / Buckeye (nuts, twigs)
Horsetail
Hoya
Hyacinth (bulbs)
Hydrangea (flower bud)
Indian Licorice Bean
Indian Turnip (Jack -in-the-pulpit) (all parts)
Iris / Blue Flag (bulbs)
Ivy (English & Others) (leaves and berries)
Japanese Yew
Japanese Aucuba
Japanese Pieris
Jasmine / Jessamine
Jatropha
Java Bean (Lima bean) (uncooked bean)
Jerusalem Cherry (berries)
Jepuirity Bean
Jimsonweed / Thornapple (leaves, seeds)
Johnson Grass
Juniper (needles, stems, berries)
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Kaffir Lily
Lantana / Red Sage (immature berries)
Laurel Cherry (all parts)
Larkspur (all parts)
Lily of the Valley (Poison in plant & Water) (all parts, including the water in which they have been kept)
Lily, Arum
Lima Bean (uncooked bean)
Lobelia (all parts)
Locoweed / Milk Vetch (all parts)
Locusts: Black & Honey
Lords & ladies / Cuckoopint (all parts)
Love-in-a-mist
Love-lies-bleeding
Lupine / Bluebonnet
Malanga
Mandrake
Mango Tree
Marijuana / Hemp (leaves)
Marsh Marigold
Mayapple / Mandrake (all parts, except fruit)
Meadow Saffron
Ming Aralia
Mescal Beans (seeds)
Mexican Breadfruit
Medican Poppy
Milkweed / Cotton Bush
Mistletoe
Mock Orange (fruit)
Monkshood / Aconite (leaves, roots)
Moonseed
Morning Glory (all parts - seeds)
Mountain Laurel
Mushrooms, Amanita
Myrtle
Myoporum
Naked Lady
Natal Plum
Narcissus (bulbs)
Nectarine
Nettles
Nightshades: (all types - berries, leaves)
Deadly
Black
Garden
Woody
Bittersweet
Eggplant
Jerusalem Cherry
Nutmeg
Oak
Oleander (leaves, branches, nectar of blossoms)
Oxalis
Parsley
Parlor Ivy (all parts)
Peace Lily
peach (pits)
Pencil Tree (sap)
Periwinkle
Philodendrons: (leaves, stem)
Split Leaf
Swiss Cheese
Heart-leaf
Pigweed
Pikeweed (leaves, roots, immature berries)
Pine needles & berries
Pittosporum
Plum
Poinciana
Poinsettia (leaves, flowers)
Poison Ivy (sap)
Poison Hemlock
Poison Oak: (sap) (acorns, foliage)
Western
Eastern
Pokeweed / Inkberry (leaves, roots, unripe berries)
Potato (Roots & Eyes)
Pothos (Devil's Ivy) (all parts)
Pregnant Onion
Primose
Privet
Prune
Pyracantha
Rain Tree
Ranunculus / Buttercup (sap)
Rape
Rattlebox / Crotalaria
Red Maple
Red Sage / Lantana
Rhubarb (The Leaves)
Rhododendrons (all parts)
Rosary Pea Seed / Indian Licorice (seeds)
Sandbox Tree
Scarlet Runner Beans Schefflera
Skunk Cabbage (all parts)
Snake Plant
Snowdrop (all parts, especially buds)
Snow on the Mountain / Ghostweed (all parts)
Snowflake
Sorghum Grass
Sorrel
Spider Lily
Spindle Tree (all parts)
Sudan Grass
Spurges:
Pencil Tree
Snow-on-mountain
Candelabra
Crown of Thorns
Star of Bethlehem
St. John's Wort
Sweet Pea (seeds and fruit)
Swill Cheese Plant / Monstera
Tansy Ragwort
Tomato (all but the fruit)
Tobacoo (leaves)
Toyon
Umbrella Plant/Tree
Vetch: Hairy & Common
Virginia Creeper (sap)
Water Hemlock
Wattle
Weeping Fig
Western Yew (needles, seeds)
White Cedar / China Berry
Wild Onion
Wind Flower
Wintersweet
Wisteria (all parts)
Yam Bean (roots,immature pods)
Yarrow
Yews (English & Japanese seeds) Needles, seeds)
Yew Pine
Yellow Jessamine (flowers)
Yellow Oleander
SEEDS OF: Apple, Apricot, Black Cherry, Crabapple, Loquat, Nectarine, Peach,Pear, Plum

 

[MattiBee]

i live in the uk and you can get your hands on a decent Ficus Benjamina (from what i gather they can also be called Ficus Natasha) from homebase and places like that. and based on what ive read/been told on this site, they are safe, except if any branches break it is best to leave them for a few days as the sap can be irritant. just make sure you wash the leaves now and try to repot it in an organic/unfertilised soil. Hope this helps

 

[darren]

again a massive thankyou to you all ....another question.... i have heard that the chams can eat these plants ?? do they add any nutritional value ??

 

[MattiBee]

i only have a panther, and they arent really plant eaters so i cant help with that one. i have heard that veileds can benefit from some plants but my advice would be to read into it alot as some plants are not good even if they are safe to have in the viv. another bit of advice would be to ask brad ramsey on here. this person really knows his S***, especially about veileds and is always happy to share his experiences

 

[WilcoxAE]

Great list. I didn't know Rape was a kind of plant...

 

[Replife]

Hi I am trying to figure out if mother in-laws tongue or snake plant as sum call it is OK or not for my cham I seen the list of plants that says not toxic and it on that list under both names as OK but on the not OK list it's on there also as snake plant so if anyone can say for sure I would greatly appreciate it

 

[Mireillevdw]

Wow, he's looking great!

 

[Kakureon]

He is awesome, always love to see a fellow uk cham.

 

[Twitchet]

Hi from the U.K too- we are growing in numbers!
He's looking really great- loving the colours. Very impressive.
I bought really nice plants from Homebase- £5-15, 3-5ft high and healthy. I bought Ficus benjamini, Pothos and Schefflera ( it's Umbrella plant and is great for holding water drops for drinking) Just made sure I left them for 3 weeks or so and washed them to get rid of any sprays they put on. I have Arcadia Jungle dawns above my plants and they grow like crazy.
Does your chameleon have a name?