enough room to breed?

[awsumpauly]

Ok, so I have a mature female carpet chameleon in a cage that's about 4 ft x 4 ft x 2.5 ft. I was wondering if there is enough room to put another carpet cham in there and possibly have them breed.
thanks!

 

[NHenn]

That is plenty large to place a male in to breed but after breeding I would pull him back out. I don't recommend having two chameleons together in one cage. It is fairly large so maybe you could build a divider down the middle of the cage and make the one cage become two. That way there is a physical and visual barrier between the two chameleons.

Please post some pictures of the little girl, I would love to see her. Also some of the cage would help as well.

 

[awsumpauly]

picture

If you want to see a pic go to the current photo contest entries and look at the one titled carpet cham Jessica. that's her.

 

[NHenn]

She is gorgeous!

I would read through an excellent article by Kevin (Dooley1) about carpets and breeding. He says it is out of date and needs updating but it is still an excellent place to start reading about it.

http://www.chameleonnews.com/06MayStanford.html

 

[awsumpauly]

ill read it, thanks. You said you wouldn't recommend having another cham in there w/o a divider but would it be possible to have a second smaller cham in there (like a pygmy or rudis) since the cage is so big? Also, I just love Jessica's colors because most of the time she is very colorful. not very often is she just like mostly green.

 

[Djturna4thakidz]

Not a good idea to add other species. rule of thumb is one cham to an enclosure.

 

[NHenn]

Agreed, even though they might seems fine together in the same cage there will a lot of extra unnecessary stress on the chameleons being together which will take a toll on their health over time.

Jessica is very colorful, I just love carpets and the different color patterns they are able to produce.