Caring for young Yemens?

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ViolentJ

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As you'll know if you followed my recent posts, our 20 month old Yemen that we'd only had for a little over a week passed away at the start of this week.

I'm hoping to be able to acquire another Yemen next week/week after, this time it will be a young one.

I understand that up to 3 months of age should only have a basking temperature of 80F but is anything else different? I've still got the relevant house hold reflector bulbs, I've also got a dimmer stat if that can be used with it?

Still waiting on new the zoomed Reptisun 5.0. Is it still 12hours of both?

I was hoping to use our 100 gallon flexarium 48"x30"x16.5" (HxLxW) would that be ok? Is there anything I'd need to do such as more/less vines, plants etc?

Plant wise we have a 1ft Epipremnum aureum (Devils Ivy) and a 4ft Dracena. We also have a 3ft Monstera (cheese plant) but someone expressed concern over that so we won't use it to be on the safe side.

I'd bought lots of Morio worms which I still have, I know these will be too big but would it eat them if I cut them up?
 
For the 5.0 12 hours is good. Maybe 13 or 14 wouldn't hurt. The 100 Gallon Reptarium would be fine. For plants, if you want some vines, find a nice Pothos, after about 2 weeks, it should start exploding with growth as they are more of a parasitic plant that will kill other plants for light, but shouldn't do anything to that level because of the artifical light and because when it grows taller and gets to the heat, it will be to hot for them, and will die off in that part. Here is a good care sheet written by Justin Carl.

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/justin-carl/20-caresheet.html
 
I wouldn't get one less than 2 months old. 3 is better and 4 even better. Check under the chams for sale section. You will find our forum folks that are selling chams and you can get excellent animals.
 
BocaJan said:
I wouldn't get one less than 2 months old. 3 is better and 4 even better. Check under the chams for sale section. You will find our forum folks that are selling chams and you can get excellent animals.
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Why no less than 2 months old? From what I can see the for sale section is all american based. I only know of one place "local" to me, other breeders seem to be hours away.
 
2 months typically is the youngest you can sell them to public, and it isn't the best for them to sell under 2 months old. Unless you want to try it, no one suggests it because if it's your first Chameleon, it can be tough. I know it's not your "First" Chameleon, technically it will be because your other one passed away not to long after you got him.
 
Morios are the same as Supers. Don't know why, but they are known as Morio worms here in the UK. I understand that they are one and the same.
 
Oh ok. Don't use those Violent. The Chameleon would be too small. But some like 1/4 Crickets for the baby if it is 2-3 months old.
 
Morio worms are not suitable for baby chams. I don't know anything about babies, but others on here do and will help. All I know is that the feeder should not be any wider than the width between the chameleon's eyes. As Linkin said very small crickets (or locusts) would be better to start with.
 
Can I not chop the morios up small and hand feed them?
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Sure, as long as its keen for food at the time, morio 'bits' wont wiggle for too long! :)

Morios must be like orios, but crunchy outside, gooey inside :D
 
I've just reserved a 2 month old male yemen :) Should be collecting him on Monday. Gives me the weekend to disinfect the flexarium, plant leaves and make sure it's all ready to go.
 
Can I just check, is 80F the correct basking temperature for a 2 month old? At what age should the temp be increased?

I've cleaned the flex and repositioned everything, all that's left is getting the right height for the basking bulb.
 
Increase it when/if the cham hangs out there all the time, or flattens itself near it to gain more surface/heat. I suppose around the 6 month mark otherwise, but let biology decide.

Too low temps= slow metabolism= wont eat.

too high temps= faster metabolism=eats more= risk overheating/avoids basking spot, trys to stay cool

Daily observation! :)
 
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