Chameleon trying to attack the other

[kinyonga]

Screen cages are not a must for chameleons. I have kept chameleon's in glass cages for most of the years I've kept them...and my veiled females, for instance usually live to be 6 and more often than not 7 years old. The males live even longer. There is no one kind of caging that is the only way to keep them...there are pluses and minuses for each type. If you don't do it right, with screen cages, you may have trouble keeping the humidity up all year round and temperatures high enough in the winter. With glass, you may have standing water issues and trouble with temperatures in the summer time.

Also, in my 25+ years of experience very few of the chameleons I have kept have had any reaction to a reflection in the glass.

Just my opinion.

 

[Thebigman2001]

Screen cages are not a must for chameleons. I have kept chameleon's in glass cages for most of the years I've kept them...and my veiled females, for instance usually live to be 6 and more often than not 7 years old. The males live even longer. There is no one kind of caging that is the only way to keep them...there are pluses and minuses for each type. If you don't do it right, with screen cages, you may have trouble keeping the humidity up all year round and temperatures high enough in the winter. With glass, you may have standing water issues and trouble with temperatures in the summer time.

Also, in my 25+ years of experience very few of the chameleons I have kept have had any reaction to a reflection in the glass.

Just my opinion.

So it is fine.

 

[Carlton]

Some chams do stress out in glass tanks but others don't seem to. It could be due to age (hormones and territorial sensitivity), just individual personality, or whether the angle of the lighting happens to create a reflection. If your setup has good air exchange and isn't constantly wet or stagnant its OK until he's bigger. As kinyonga already said, whether you end up wanting a screen cage or a partial glass cage is affected a lot by your particular house and climate.