Do chameleons swim?
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KarmaChameleon1337
Avid Member
They don't swim. They float/inflate their bodies to live and get to the nearest land. It's very stressful and a bad idea.
CamiGirl89
New Member
Is it that video of those guys in Africa jumping into the river?? That poor little guy looked like he was walking on water! You can give chameleons a warm-water shower, which is just setting their plant in there to sit on, and letting the warm water bounce off of the shower wall and gently onto them. That kind of bathing is good for them once in awhile, but no Michael Phelps chameleons... They don't like it 
Olimpia
Biologist & Ecologist
Although there's nothing like a 15-20 minute warm water soaking to clear up any constipation issues though. They don't like it much at first but they will settle down and soak in an inch of warm water (for a full grown chameleon), and it just about always works to get them to poop if a warm shower didn't do the trick.
So yea, they can "swim" if they have to, but it's not something they seem to do for fun lol.
So yea, they can "swim" if they have to, but it's not something they seem to do for fun lol.
tattooistchameleon
Member
I must be a chameleon cause a warm soak makes me poo as well!
Azthebarber
New Member
Don't mean to make anyone one mad but I think any animal was made with the ability to swim. I am not saying to make your Cham a swimming pool with a diving board in your cage but in nature I am sure its ok.
but in nature I am sure its ok.
OldChamKeeper
Chameleon Enthusiast
Don't mean to make anyone one mad but I think any animal was made with the ability to swim. I am not saying to make your Cham a swimming pool with a diving board in your cage
I could list a number of animals that cannot swim. I'm not counting an animal that just falls in the water for a few seconds and hops out since nearly any animal can do that. However there are many that simply nature did not intend to be treading water. Even humans without some form of learning experience can and do drown.
As for chams, I shall not say more other than I have been keeping Chams for three decades and once a very very very long time ago I knew a young boy who thought chams could swim like an iguana. He was wrong and never forgot it.
Use the shower method if you need the cham nice and wet. You won't stress the crap out of it either.
Ferdy Timmerman
Member
A friend of mine had a pardalis that often used to cross his pond when he was free roaming in his back yard.
