Glass or screen?
- Thread starter Sunkissedn
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Whichever you pick, you will have to make adjustments from summer to winter. Your summers are hot and humid so you may need a basking light but a lower wattage for fewer hours. UVB bulb will still need to be on for 12 hrs daily. Your winters can be dry indoors from running the heater so you may need additional misting and/or a ceramic heat emitter for over the colder nights.
Get a good thermometer and hygrometer or two and adjust accordingly. Seasonal changes, HVAC, heaters and age of the chameleon can require heat and humidity adjustments. Cages aren't set 'em and forget 'em.
Get a good thermometer and hygrometer or two and adjust accordingly. Seasonal changes, HVAC, heaters and age of the chameleon can require heat and humidity adjustments. Cages aren't set 'em and forget 'em.
broderp
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Even if you perfected the set 'em and forget 'em cage you would still tinker with it. You can't help yourself.I'm working towards that........
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My personal opinion, glass looks way better than screen, and a screen cage wrapped in a shower curtain looks terrible.
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You just have to know what you're doing. As long as you use shower rods for branches, flexible shower hoses for vines, shower heads for misters, bathroom fixtures for lighting, lay a bath towel on the bottom to soak up water, and put a little shower cap on your cham, a shower curtain can look quite nice wrapped around a cage.
My personal opinion, glass looks way better than screen, and a screen cage wrapped in a shower curtain looks terrible.
[/QUOTE]You just have to know what you're doing. As long as you use shower rods for branches, flexible shower hoses for vines, shower heads for misters, bathroom fixtures for lighting, lay a bath towel on the bottom to soak up water, and put a little shower cap on your cham, a shower curtain can look quite nice wrapped around a cage.
broderp
Avid Member
Even if you perfected the set 'em and forget 'em cage you would still tinker with it. You can't help yourself.
Boy is that the truth!
You just have to know what you're doing. As long as you use shower rods for branches, flexible shower hoses for vines, shower heads for misters, bathroom fixtures for lighting, lay a bath towel on the bottom to soak up water, and put a little shower cap on your cham, a shower curtain can look quite nice wrapped around a cage.
Veild Cham Owner
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I live near Boston in my male veiled chameleon has been in a screened cage ever since he was four months old . I keep three golden pothos in there and the humidity stays in between 50 and 60. You should be good with a screen I personally hate glass terrariums, they cause so many problems
I personally hate glass terrariums, they cause so many problems
Kristen Wilkins
Chameleon Enthusiast
I started with glass it was beautiful yes but my girl got a URI . I'm not going to say it was from the glass enclosure we have fought URI since we got Frances , even with screen . She is now in a dragon stand large . I live in mass cape cod . It's very cold and dry winters and very hot and Humid summers . I have no prob with Humidity. The upkeep with Glass was very doable . I believe most in Europe use glass .
broderp
Avid Member
I've used aquariums with screen lids, (I started keeping them over 25 years ago), cages with screen lids and doors, wooden cages with glass doors and areas cut out for screen, exo Terra cages...all of them can work....all of them have good things about them and all of them have bad sides to being used. You just have to figure out how to use each type and which will work best in the climate surrounding the cage too.
Anastasia_k
Member
@broderp @leedragon
Could you please please have a look at this thread I posted and tell me if this material is ok to use instead of screen? I would greatly appreciate it <3
https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/is-this-ok-for-ventilation.158316/
Could you please please have a look at this thread I posted and tell me if this material is ok to use instead of screen? I would greatly appreciate it <3
https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/is-this-ok-for-ventilation.158316/
