Hello all,
So I will be purchasing my first chameleon this weekend. He is a 4 month old Ambanja. I already have a umbrella plant, a pothos, an 18" aquarium light fixture, and a metal dome fixture for a basking bulb. I will be purchasing a reptisun 5.0 UV bulb, a bulb for basking, some climbing vines, a thermometer/humidity gauge, calcium w/o D3, calcium w/ D3, multivitamin, spray bottle for misting, and last but not least a cage. My question here is what size to get. The options I am looking at are the Zoo Med repti-breeze 16x16x20, the 16x16x30 and the 18x18x36. I would really like to be able to get the 18x18x36 so I could possibly use it as a female cage in the future and so that I could wait a little longer until I upgrade to a larger cage (24x24x48 at least). Also my umbrella plant will fit really nicely in a 18x18x36, not that that should be a deciding factor.
I heard from a few sources that the 18x18x36 could be too large for a cham as young as 4 months and he will not grow as fast because he will have to expend more energy to find food and more of the supplements will be shaken off feeders because they will be climbing around the cage more. I would like to get some other opinions on this and in general what size cage people recommend for a 4 month old panther. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks to everyone on this forum! I have learned so much already just from reading through the forum over the past few months.
So I will be purchasing my first chameleon this weekend. He is a 4 month old Ambanja. I already have a umbrella plant, a pothos, an 18" aquarium light fixture, and a metal dome fixture for a basking bulb. I will be purchasing a reptisun 5.0 UV bulb, a bulb for basking, some climbing vines, a thermometer/humidity gauge, calcium w/o D3, calcium w/ D3, multivitamin, spray bottle for misting, and last but not least a cage. My question here is what size to get. The options I am looking at are the Zoo Med repti-breeze 16x16x20, the 16x16x30 and the 18x18x36. I would really like to be able to get the 18x18x36 so I could possibly use it as a female cage in the future and so that I could wait a little longer until I upgrade to a larger cage (24x24x48 at least). Also my umbrella plant will fit really nicely in a 18x18x36, not that that should be a deciding factor.
I heard from a few sources that the 18x18x36 could be too large for a cham as young as 4 months and he will not grow as fast because he will have to expend more energy to find food and more of the supplements will be shaken off feeders because they will be climbing around the cage more. I would like to get some other opinions on this and in general what size cage people recommend for a 4 month old panther. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks to everyone on this forum! I have learned so much already just from reading through the forum over the past few months.