Escape!!!

[Angela Poleto]

I have just made a small free range for my Merelli. I live in a small apartment so the only room I have is one without a door. The table I have is 23 inches off of the ground. It has two fig trees and one schefflera. They keep escaping everyday! I watched one hang from his tail and then jump to the ground. I come home everyday and have to play hide and seek. How do you keep a chameleon from escaping a free range?

 

[beeze]

How old is your cham? Normally after about a year old they stop roaming as much. Also sometimes the get down when hungry....looking for food.

 

[Melma]

I have two on free range right now. The female has never left the trees, but the male spent the first days all over the room. Last night he slept in the closet! But I just found out they he was looking for water. Always have your chameleon hydrated and fed, and with time they will stop roaming and start staying inside their free range.

I hope you always end up finding them till they get used to it.

 

[Angela Poleto]

I have crickets and super meal worms hanging from bins in the trees. I have no idea of age. I just got them in December. One is 11oz. One is 9oz. I keep mostly frogs. I went to a reptile expo and fell in love with these guys. The guy told me it was ok to keep them in a 100 gallon aquarium that I was going to purchase frogs for. I came home and researched, wow, he gave me no good advice!! I have been trying to come up with something since then. I don't have a bedroom to dedicate so I have this setup in a large hallway by a window(plus proper lighting of coarse) witch connects to alot of other rooms and has no door. I also have a humidifier. How do people with smaller free ranges keep the tenants in the house?

 

[Melma]

The same thing happened to me. I went to a show to buy boas, fell in love iwth a big pair of Mellers, the sellers gave me bullshit about their husbandry and when I came home, i had to improvise a free range inside my room in less than two days. Now I dont have a room, but i can enjoy a fabulous pair of chameleons, and have two cages for future chameleons.

 

[kinyonga]

Put the trees in a children's stiff-sided swimming pool (with no water in it, of course) that is too tall for the chameleon to reach the top of. The pool will have to be wide enough that if the chameleon tries to drop from the tree the branches don't extend out far enough that the chameleon ends up outside the pool. Or...make a circle/square of wood or some other material that is stiff enough that it won't collapse under the chameleon's weight...and place it around the tree.

 

[veiledchamguy]

Put the trees in a children's stiff-sided swimming pool (with no water in it, of course) that is too tall for the chameleon to reach the top of. The pool will have to be wide enough that if the chameleon tries to drop from the tree the branches don't extend out far enough that the chameleon ends up outside the pool. Or...make a circle/square of wood or some other material that is stiff enough that it won't collapse under the chameleon's weight...and place it around the tree.

Damn thats a good idea thanks kinyonga!

 

[Angela Poleto]

Thanks again, I am very thankful for the ideas. I really want to give these two a good home!