Chameleon Schedules

[PantherVeileD]

What time does your chameleon go to bed? One of my veiled is sleeping and the other is awake. They are in my room so the house light is still on.. Its 11:00 pm.. Im a night owl so hopefully I dont distrub them while they are sleeping.

 

[tru510]

I have both my chams on a schedule from 8am to 8pm. I have my lights on a timer so i never have to deal with that part...

 

[PantherVeileD]

hey whats going on tru.. What type of chameleons do you have??

 

[tru510]

hey whats going on tru.. What type of chameleons do you have??

I have a Nosy Be and a Nosy Mitsio... I see your also in the bay area thats cool, What part?

 

[PantherVeileD]

I am in San Francisco.. Your not on craigslist selling your cham right...

 

[summoner12]

You should run the cage lights for 12 hours. If one goes to bed before the other, don't worry about it. My guy Fred is asleep before Jake. They are both male veileds and about the same age. Fred will sleep through quite a bit but Jake wakes up as soon as I turn on a light outside the cage. Because of this, I rely on my computer monitor for lighting the room enough to move around. If I need a light on I keep it short. Chameleons need thier sleep. It isn't good to keep them up or change the lighting on them all the time. They will develop a schedule, don't change it too much or they stress out.

I also make my lights stay on longer during the summer, I slowly make the changes. I have my lights on at 6 and off at 8 right now. Jake is awake but 'in bed' and Fred is usually knocked out. Pat my new guy, hes a Melleri, has the same schedule, and hes awake when the lights go out. I don't think he is used to the times yet because I don't see him in the same place at night all the time.

 

[Tygerr]

Pat my new guy, hes a Melleri, has the same schedule, and hes awake when the lights go out. I don't think he is used to the times yet because I don't see him in the same place at night all the time.

In my experience when a cham is sleeping in different places each night, it is because all the lights go off at once and surprise the cham - so they basically go to sleep almost whereever they were when the lights went out (this is often what causes chams to end up sleeping on the mesh walls overnight).
There is a technique that works well to solve this problem. Zerah Morris referred to it as 'providing cues' that night time is approaching.
You simply turn your heat lamps off about 30-60 minutes before you turn off the UV bulbs. The chams then get alerted that night is approaching so they start making their way over to their favourite sleeping spot. By the time the UV lights go off, they'll be in the right place, ready to sleep.

 

[tru510]

I am in San Francisco.. Your not on craigslist selling your cham right...

I had a Nosy Mitsio for sale but he sold... I don't remember if I posted him on craigslist maybe? I live in Berkeley... Im going to post pics of my guys later today... Check them out

 

[summoner12]

In my experience when a cham is sleeping in different places each night, it is because all the lights go off at once and surprise the cham - so they basically go to sleep almost whereever they were when the lights went out (this is often what causes chams to end up sleeping on the mesh walls overnight).
There is a technique that works well to solve this problem. Zerah Morris referred to it as 'providing cues' that night time is approaching.
You simply turn your heat lamps off about 30-60 minutes before you turn off the UV bulbs. The chams then get alerted that night is approaching so they start making their way over to their favourite sleeping spot. By the time the UV lights go off, they'll be in the right place, ready to sleep.

I am aware of this method but am not setup for it right now. I don't have issues with my two veileds sleeping in different places because they are used to the timing. My newest cham has only been with me for 6 days, I am sure he will get on track soon.

 

[bREW]

My young panther was always ready to sleep long before lights went off at 9.30pm, I now have them turn off on a timer at 8.30 and he is usually set ready to sleep by then. Once he's asleep nothing seems to wake him.

 

[dodolah]

What time does your chameleon go to bed? One of my veiled is sleeping and the other is awake. They are in my room so the house light is still on.. Its 11:00 pm.. Im a night owl so hopefully I dont distrub them while they are sleeping.

i follow the sun.
Sun goes up, light is on.
sun goes down, light is off.
more hours during summer, short hours during winter.